New Jersey Governor Chris Christie does it again. I almost felt sorry (almost) for Marie Corfield, an elementary school teacher who stood up at a question-and-answer session with the governor and demanded to know how his reforms would help teachers since his budget cuts had resulted in so many lay-offs among the selfless pedagogues that populate New Jersey’s public schools. “We have some of the best schools in the country,” quoth la Corfield, “and you have done nothing but lambaste us.”
Pardon us while we dab away the tears.
When the governor began to respond, Ms. Corfield rolled her eyes and acted like one of her pupils taunting a classmate. That was when Gov. Christie delivered one of his classic put-downs. “If you want to put on a show then just sit down. But if you want to have a respectful discussion then let me answer your question.”
Yikes. That alone was worth the price of admission but what followed is a script that anyone who cares about the tsunami of public debt that is poised to wash over America should hearken to carefully. Christie didn’t “lambaste” teachers, he said, he lambasted the teachers’ union, especially its leaders. Why were so many teachers laid off in New Jersey? Because when the governor called upon teachers to take a one-year pay freeze and contribute 1.5% — one-and a half percent! — of their salaries to the cost of their health care (full-family medical, dental, and vision coverage, by the way), the union leaders said: “No way. Not a penny.” Result: nearly a billion-dollar shortfall in the budget, which necessitated scads of layoffs. (Had Gov. Christie’s proposal been accepted, the state would have saved more than $700,000,000.) “So who’s really to blame?” he asked: the governor or the intransigent teachers unions?
“We have to get realistic about telling people the truth,” Christie said, a sentiment that is gaining currency all across the country — not, of course, among the political class that actually governs us: no, Christie is a rare exception in that cohort, but among the vast majority of ordinary Americans that imperative is more and more the order of the day.
Here’s the clip. Do watch to the end. The governor’s response when Ms Corfield comes back to complain about his “tone” is not to be missed. (Remember when a union official sent around an email suggesting people pray for the governor’s death?)
Christie is awesome, despite the fact that he didn’t use some of his “directness” to oppose the mosque at Ground Zero.
Steel cage match between “Haystacks” Christie and Richard “The Animal” Trumka.
Heh.
Opposing the mosque is falling on deaf ears. He inherited a mess in New Jersey so perhaps he has better things to do than put his 2 cents worth in about it. Enough talk about this travesty and more action is what is required.
Well said Toronto Girl, I sent John Oakley of am 640 this clip to show to our conservative contender for Mayor John Ford. To give him a little courage to stick to his convictions.
Wish I knew where you were.
Maryann in Toronto
Last I checked, he was the governor of New Jersey, not New York. He’s got plenty of fish to fry in NJ, why would he want to stick his neck out on a chopping block for something that isn’t in his jurisdiction?
*Haystacks* Christie.
Genius!!!
To bad he won’t come out barefoot and in overalls though…..
Ya gotta love the Fat Man! Fat Man for President, Christie/Palin 2012!!!
Chris Chrisie is a wonderful gift from God.
Imagine a debate between our President and Chris Christie.
Dear Lord, NO!! I’m opposed to human disembowelment on network television!
Umm, “human disembowelment on network television…?” No, Christie will be safe.
Yeah, and there wouldn’t be a teleprompter there to tell Obama to scream!!
OMG it would be worth watching!!!!
Of course when Obama found out he would actually need to express original ideas he would back out. Let me make this clear,er, um blap.
Note also that when Christie fires back an argument at this teacher’s union member, he backs it up with precise facts and figures in support of his decisions and reasoning. No straw men, no sweeping generalities, no backhand insults – in other words, a real leader, not a symbol in a suit. Obama would end up hiding under a desk in such a debate.
From your lips to God’s ears…..
With or without telepromters?
A friend who teaches at a large mid-western public university has not received a pay raise in 5 years. She also tells me that she pays half of the cost of her medical insurance.
Increasingly, the perception is that union leaders are nothing less than greedy, Democrat thugs.
Your friend has a job, and health insurance. How many people do you know that would love to be in the position of having the same income as they did five years ago.
In Pennsylvania, teachers in several districts recently got their contracts renewed, giving them three percent pay raises and no added contributions to their health care. In one district, they pushed through a requirement that non-unionized teachers pay union dues.
http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2010/09/west_shore_school_districts_te.html
WOW..ditto. Good point, thank you.
The subject is the piggish, Democrat leaders of labor unions and teachers’ unions in particular.
Teachers in St Lucie County, Florida, have not had a raise in four years, yet the Scool Boared voted themselves a 4% increase last year. Unions are weak in Florida, and the pension and health care benefits are minimal – especially compared to those in the northern states you read about. It isn’t always the unions that are the problem. It’s the whole school administration system from state departments of education to assistant principals.
“It’s the whole school administration system from state departments of education to assistant principals.”
Open up the school system to competition. That’s what happens when you have a monopoly.
Teachers in St Lucie County, Florida, have not had a raise in four years, yet the Scool Board voted themselves a 4% increase last year. Unions are weak in Florida, and the pension and health care benefits are minimal – especially compared to those in the northern states you read about. It isn’t always the unions that are the problem. It’s the whole school administration system from state departments of education to assistant principals.
It isn’t always the unions that are the problem. It’s the whole school administration system from state departments of education to assistant principals.
That’s because they’re too far removed from the classroom to have a clue what’s going on in there. If I were in charge, I’d require all administrators, from the newest assistant principal up to the superintendent, to teach one class a day in addition to their other duties. The board of education would also be made up of active teachers, and school board members would be required to substitute (with a teacher in the classroom if necessary, to satisfy the legalities) for one week every year.
“Increasingly, the perception is that union leaders are nothing less than greedy, Democrat thugs.”
Well, yes.
Sounds like the perception is increasingly accurate. Can you provide examples of union leaders who are *not* greedy, democrat thugs? I fail to see the value these parasites add. We’re not in 19th century textile mills employing ten-year-olds here. You have an employer and an employee in a white-collar job. Why the heck does there need to be any middleman involved there???
The Republican Governors Conference is featuring Christie in the longer video. Definitely worth a watch even if you’ve seen many of the parts before.
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/246116/remember-november-and-christie-daniel-foster
Re: Tone.
When you have lost the argument and rolled your eyes even before your question is answered, then the next step is to complain about “tone”. I’m sure that’s in the Alinsky playbook somewhere.
I was once the chairman of a local school council in Chicago at the elementary school that my children attended. Teachers very often behave in a condescending way towards adults regardless of the situation or the person to whom they condescend. It’s been rationalized to me that they are accustomed to lording over students who are minors. They learned not to treat me in this manner because I would not accept treatment of this kind.
But I digress. I live in Illinois and, God, do I wish there was a Chris Christie around somewhere in my state. God bless New Jersey. They may not have deserved him, but thankfully they found the way to elect a man of Mr. Christie’s integrity.
You can bet the unions will be out in force to cause him trouble with lies and scandals.
Sorry there, Illinois but the next mayor of Chicago will be, without a doubt….Rahm Emanuel. Congrats on the many more decades of corruption to come.
Alinksy playbook! Classic! How many people have even heard of that “paradigm”? Not enough. People, the WHOLE SYSTEM, from banks to schools to corporations to wall street, is CORRUPT. There is no other option but to start over because so much is dysfunctional. At this point you can’t just go back and start picking things to correct. It’s just too much. Too much greed. Too much corruption. It’s just a bad system.
Either this teacher lacks the capability to be a real teacher or she needs to get out of the classroom and talk to adults. By asking the questions she asked and the “tone” of those questions she provided Governor Christie the opportunity to see the record straight in a public forum. She got “hoisted” up on her own petard.
She mooned him, he spanked her. She was a little too daring for her own good.
eewww romance on the campaign trail…
In his brief tenure as New Jersey Governor, Chris Christie has taught conservatives nationwide a stunning, all-important lesson: BE NOT AFRAID!
Speak your mind without fear of others’ disapproval. Be candid about what you’ve done, what you’re doing, and what you intend to do. If you can’t muster courage enough to speak plainly and truthfully, how on Earth can we believe you’ll marshal the courage to govern honestly and straightforwardly?
Few conservative officeholders have records of candor to equal Chris Christie’s. He’s cutting a swath through New Jersey’s political and financial troubles. Garden State Democrats have nothing with which to oppose him; he’s taken all the ammunition out of their guns. Without question, he has a big future on the national stage. If there’s a Republican politician in serious danger of his life at this time, Governor Christie is the one.
In his brief tenure as New Jersey Governor, Chris Christie has taught conservatives nationwide a stunning, all-important lesson: BE NOT AFRAID!
Speak your mind without fear of others’ disapproval. Be candid about what you’ve done, what you’re doing, and what you intend to do. If you can’t muster courage enough to speak plainly and truthfully, how on Earth can we believe you’ll marshal the courage to govern honestly and straightforwardly?
True enough as it goes, Mr. Porretto, but insufficient. One needs more than pugnacity; having something worthwhile to say with a firm grasp of the relevant facts is important, as is the ability to present one’s ideas or position in an effective way. Fortunately Governor Christie is all over that like white on rice.
To be fair, it also helps that the governor has a lot of direct power in NJ, so Christie doesn’t have to make nice to anyone. A governor in another state, in order to get cooperation to get the job done, might not be able to be as candid.
His reasoning and logic are direct and merciless, but notice that he backs them up with his precise command of the facts and particularly the figures of State budgeting. It’s how any Executive should be expected to behave.
Shame on the USA for numerical competence being a talent in such rare supply – and for ‘celebrity’ to be held above competence all too frequently when election time comes.
But will they learn.
Never forget in 1995, after the “Republican Revolution?”
They couldn’t muster the courage to defund the National Endowment for the Arts.
That’s when I learned they have no guts, and all the lessons from Reagan were wasted on them.
Even knowing the vote is confidential, how many of the teachers AND the parents of the schools’ children vote automatically and regularly for the political parties’ chosen candidates.
Political parties use the same system model as the unions,POWER in sheeps clothing of “service” the goal. Power obtained it’s easy to buy / bribe a constituency, using “public” money. “Republicans” are no different. It’s the Model that is important.
IS IT TIME TO DUST OFF THE LATE 18TH CENTURY MODEL sculpted by ordinary people who CHANGED themselve from SUBJECTS to an “elite”, to self-governng CITIZENS. New Jersey a star player in that production.
The “tone” that teacher is hearing is sound of an adult winning an argument using facts and rational thought. For too long we have been preached at that everything is relative and there is no right answer – there is just my truth and your truth. We are told that all cultures/countries are equal (except for the unique evil of American imperialism, of course), that feelings are a legitimate argument and that having a “winner” is somehow degrading to others. True debate has disappeared because we have lost the idea that anyone can win an argument and that, in civilized society, adults will concede an argument because the truth is what moves us forward, not the fierce protection of our false notions. What we are left with is “spin” and political correctness. Maybe Christie and his “tone” will change some of that.
The “tone” that teacher is hearing is sound of an adult winning an argument using facts and rational thought. For too long we have been preached at that everything is relative and there is no right answer – there is just my truth and your truth. We are told that all cultures/countries are equal (except for the unique evil of American imperialism, of course), that feelings are a legitimate argument and that having a “winner” is somehow degrading to others. True debate has disappeared because we have lost the idea that anyone can win an argument and that, in civilized society, adults will concede an argument because the truth is what moves us forward, not the fierce protection of our false notions. What we are left with is “spin” and political correctness. Maybe Christie and the rising tide against the establishment of both parties will change some of that.
Holy crap, this guy is good on his feet. I only hope it doesn’t go to his head and tempt him to be arrogant, as politicians who are good communicators are inclined to do.
Wow ! This guy is impressive; he can talk clearly and cogently off the cuff; he responds directly without any PC equivocations. This man is definitely presidential material.
No teleprompter. Christie is in command of the facts.
No ‘let me be clear’ pretense instead of taking a position. Christie has a position and knows he’s clear about it.
No pandering to special interests. No supercargo. Everyone rows for shore, including the teachers, or over the side they go. Christie was completely up front about it during the election.
There would be painful layoffs if the teachers union did not budge. No state bailout. Christie was completely up front about that also.
Above all, no whining about how hard the problems are. Christie’s focus is to fix them, not punt them down the road.
He would slaughter Obama in any fair debating forum.
Surely this man is being groomed for the presidency. Wow.
The union leaders are nothing but greedy, Democrat thugs. Go ahead, try to assert your Beck rights. You’ll be buying new tires for your car.
Public employees should not be allowed to unionize. Unions should be under the same restrictions as companies when it comes to participating in elections.
Public employees should not be allowed to unionize. Unions should be under the same restrictions as companies when it comes to participating in elections.
Amen to both of these thoughts. And it’s disgraceful that teachers would decide to unionize; teaching is (at least ideally) a profession, not a blue-collar trade. You don’t see doctors and lawyers on strike, do you?
Why did you insist on inserting the sneaky, snide little remark “…your Beck rights.”?
Beck HAS NEVER claimed authorship of our constitutional rights, he has HIGHLIGHTED THEM.
You seem to be just like the teacher in the video, only MUCH, MUCH SNEAKIER.
new tires for not joining a union…dont think so…here in TX we have the right under the law to defend our property during the night time against burglary, theft or criminal mischief…”can you say dead tire cutter union thug”
as for Christie I love his straight forward conservative approach to politics, looks like some of the NE area states are starting to see the light…
I thought I’d never see a conservative gov in NJ or “teddys seat” may he burn in hell go to anyone less than another lib
If Christie keeps it up and sticks to his guns I’ll send money to his presidential fund.
I especially liked the part about how she had to pay for some school materials for her students — SHE’S BEEN GETTING 5% a year RAISES!!!!!!
I live in NJ and worked for a large telecom company. When I retired in 2001, my pension was ONE QUARTER of my salary WITH NO COST OF LIVING INCREASES. My health care was free for my husband and I. Now, 9 years later, I pay $9500 per year for my husband and our healtcare costs (we are not Medicare eligible) amount to 20% of our combined pensions. And this lady is complaining == BOOHOO. (Also, our property taxes have risen about 30%)
I’m a military instructor about to roll into the teaching world via Troops to Teachers, and while I recognize the necessity of employees to band together, I’ll be damned if I let any union I join tell me what I can and cannot accept as pay or health insurance contributions. That’s my decision and my employer’s, not theirs. Having said that, however, what does Gov. Christie have to do with the Cordoba Center in New York City? He is neither a politician in nor a citizen of NYC; therefore, who cares what he thinks about it? (Ditto the President, Pelosi, Gingrich, and maybe the vast majority of people complaining about it.)
The attack on the twin towers was not simply an attack on Manhattan; it was an attack on the nation and all that we stand for. To shrink the Cordoba mosque controversy to a merely local concern is simple-minded at best.
With all due respect for your military status and future goals (my wife’s grandfather and father were West Point graduates) it makes a difference to the vast majority of people complaining about it simply because what happened to New York City on September 11 happened to this entire country. Would you likewise consider an invasion upon Florida, or California or anywhere in America, isolated only unto those states or cities? How would you feel, personally, if these people killed your loved ones in their homes and then erected signs across the street marketing their murderous beliefs? Make no mistake sir, this was an assault on America and directed to ALL Americans!
Many people working in the WTC commuted from New Jersey, including Rick Rescorla, director of security for Morgan Stanley. Hence, many 9/11 families are his constituents.
“I’ll be damned if I let any union I join tell me what I can and cannot accept as pay or health insurance contributions.”
That’s what you think.
Exactly the truth. YOu have no choice. Either do it or leave..simple.
We did it for years and never complained, we had it GOOD!!!
One reason that Chris Christie does so well is that he has that exquisite timing and voice that good talk-radio hosts have along with their ability to parse difficult arguments into more easily understood components.
This reminds me of when Ronald Reagan stood up to the air traffic controllers union. Any public official that is willing to publically tell the leaders of a major public employees union to stuff it has my vote.
Here’s a teacher whose students will get to watch her fanny being paddled on YouTube.
We need this kind of talk. No more sacred cows. Instead of redistributing wealth, let’s redistribute some of the load. Nice job, Guv. Fix New Jersey first, then fix DC.
Excellent! I have to remember that!
Love Christie! Christie for President!!!!!!
When are our clueless public employees going to wake up and realize that the gravy train that they have been riding for decades is about to come to a screeching halt? Thank God for the Tea Party which has lit a fire under taxpayers’ behinds and laid the groundwork for brave new politicians like Gov. Christie. Hopefully, this coming election will be the tsunami we are all hoping for such that many more Christie’s will populate the governmental landscape.
I got my voter registration here in Tennessee after Oblame Bush got elected, I also got a Tennessee drivers license and will soon put in my carry permit after I tend to a legal issue. I will definitely be voting in November even though the only candidates running in my district are Republicans!
Oblame Bush will get a rude awakening as well as the democrats come this November which is closer and closer every day. Buck Ofama!
I love this man. I hope he’s willing to run for president in 2016 or 2020, since Jersey can’t spare him until then. He is telling the simple, unvarnished truth that every politician should be telling.
As for the teacher, I found her behavior pretty representative of the hundreds of teachers pursuing master and Ed.S. degrees that I had to deal with in my working years. They spend their entire lives in the classroom, and they think they know everything, when in truth, not many of them have ever experienced a working life outside of the classroom. They are mostly indoctrinated in the politically correct newspeak of what passes for liberalism today, and way too many of them lack a developed sense of personal responsibility. There are plenty of good teachers (the ones I rarely encountered, because they took care of themselves), but if you’re wondering why our schools are doing so poorly overall, the immaturity and sense of entitlement in way too many teachers is a big part of the problem.
WOW! I LOVE the govenor! I wish he was the gov. of my state! I also love how he tells it like it is. No teleprompter too! I would pay to see a debate with the president. It would be something Obama would never allow to happen because he knows he would lose big time. Now, teachers are important but my husband went almost 2 years without a raise and didnt complain. He’s a RN at a local hospital where we live. He is grateful every day he has a job and they take a ton of money out of his paycheck for healthcare. Why should teachers be exempt from paying for theirs? I can argue the fact that there are lots of jobs out there that are just as important as teachers so why should they have this payed for life? They shouldnt and neither should anyone. I am not a fan of unions (thank God my husband is not in one) all they do it take money out of your pockets and do nothing but push a pyramid scheme like pension, which is also unsustainable year after year. We need to get real in this country and stop the spending in this country and vote all these jokers out of office. We need more people like Gov. Christie!
What is so remarkable in these times is that Christie keeps his discussion under control. I have yet to hear of a curse word uttered by that Governor, Christie speaks very directly and makes his points clearly. We need more politicians speaking that clearly, and on point, at all times.
Thanks to Christie’s inept administration, NJ missed out on $400K in federal education funds. His secretary of education submitted an incomplete application. I almost feel sorry (almost).
The story is a bit more complex than you indicate – it was one person’s inadvertent mistake, and the “feds” were too lazy to follow-up and get a corrected table. There’s a video of Christie addressing this somewhere on the internets.
Do you think there was any chance the Obama junta would have ever given this money to help a popular GOP governor?
Puhhleease!
be nice if he knew what year it was. we just lost 400 million dollars in federal aid for our school system. this 2010 and 2011!!
Miriam- Since when did you live in New Jersey?
As the governor fairly pointed out, why did Obama’s administration fail to pick up the phone? Do they need another teleprompter for that?
I fled the Peoples Republic of Jersey during the dark days of Florio.
Jersey, to a Patriotic American, is a lot like Bootcamp…
A toughening experience to be endured, to make you stronger, to make you thankful for the insights it gives you about the darker side of life, politics, corruption, anger, and dispair. The harsh realities…and the lessons on how to survive them with your soul intact.
For all those reasons, Jersey is a great place to be FROM, but like Paris Island, you really dont want to LIVE there.
God bless those that stay and fight the good fight. My former High school class president is a State Assemblyman, one of the very few voices of reason and integrety in that cesspool of Trenton. Every so often I see a quote in the paper from him, and remember the kid from school, a natural leader who talked straight, played fair, and was too cool to worry about being cool.
I dont know how he found the courage to stay, considering his personality/intellectual/academic abilities could have secured him any number of great career opportunities anywhere else in “good america”
But he stayed, fought against The Evil Machine all his adult life, and now has a Real Leader in Christie that can move this thing toward sanity.
Thanks for staying Kevin!
We’ll do what we can to help from THIS side of the Delaware.
it’d be nice if you two knew that he didn’t personally fill out the paperwork. and if you followed up with the fact that he fired the person who made the mistake, which is something teacher’s unions won’t do.
Christie disqualified himself for national office when he mocked those who were fighting Muslims that are trying to build a mosque at Ground Zero. He’s a weak kneed dhimmi who has no knowledge about our foe – Islam.
Would love to see the link to this. do you have one or did you just make this up
Troll clean-up in aisle 2!
Christie is a powerful advocate because he has command of the facts and can marshal them in support of his position. And he is not afraid to call out misinformation from the other side.
This guy is one serious dude, a hero in the classical style, who knows the time is long overdue to cut the crap from politics, especially to cap the rhetorical fraudulence gassing from the Democrats and their union toadies, useful idiots, and Alinksy-ite fifth-columnists.
For now he must be Hercules cleansing the Augean Stables of New Jersey, but the day may come when he must turn his labors to the benefit of the whole nation.
If we can find 1000 more like him all over the country, we’ll survive – maybe even be in good shape again. But those like him are few and far between.
Christie should run for president.
I know only a limited amount bout Christie, but he looks to be impressive. In the context of NJ, he is doing what has to be done, what he said he would do, and seems staightforward about it. It is foolish to say he would mop up the floor with Obama in a debate, because Obama is a lot better at it than most acknowledge here, but he would do damned well. Of course in NJ, he has to live within a budget. As President of the US, not so much so, so the economic constraint piece might not be quite as convincing, but it sounds as if he could make a good case.
I beg your pardon, but I have thoroughly studied the Presidential debates. Obama is a terrible debater. He spewed his usual campaign tropes. McCain simply did not know how to expose the obvious falsehoods. McCain would wander off into insignificant minutiae. He never dealt with fundamentals, because really, McCain doesn’t actually stand for anything but his own ambition.
Christie clearly has fundamental values and he knows what they are and how to explain them to folks. When you speak at a fundamental level, people will recognize the basic truth of what you say. They will not be fooled by all the usual meretriciousness. Obama’s blather would break apart on the rock of Christie’s convictions.
For the first time in a very long time, I am proud to live in NJ. Chris Christie is the most awesome governor we have ever had … and I’ve been here (not willingly … lol!) for a LONG time! Keep on fighting for the right things Governor Christie, standing up to the union thugs, addressing the wrongs here in this state. I hope you are successful in implementing many of the changes this state needs. Your honesty and directness is refreshing and much needed. I will pray for you … long life and many blessings!
Our country doesn’t face anything close to insurmountable problems.
All we need to do is get rid of the ruling class demagogues who create divisions in order to expand their own wealth and power.
Christie is a master at this because he sees through the bullshit.
He should be the model going forward, not just on economic issues, but his same matter of fact approach should also be used for all of the other issues as well.
NJ has been in serious doo-doo for a long time. I moved to NJ just before Florio got elected. He jacked up the sales tax the minute he got into office, which actually finished him, since he campaigned that he wouldn’t do that. It’s been going downhill from there. We had a RINO governor, Christie Whitman, who to her credit, brought the sales tax back down. Then we had two disastrous liberal Dem governors, the corrupt McGreevey and Corzine. Actually, Corzine did exactly what Florio did when he got elected, and raised the sales tax the minute he got in. He had enablers in the local press (surpise, surprise) who before him with McGreevey claimed that the state’s economy was peachy, then said things were awful when Corzine got in to give him cover to raise the sales tax.
NJ is basically an extension of NYC (in the north) and Philadelphia (in the south) now, with the same wretched progressive policies. The state assembly and senate have had liberal Democrat majorities, and the politics here are almost as bad as those in Chicago. The cities (Newark, Camden, Paterson and Atlantic City) are poster-children for urban decay, crime, government waste, and corruption. I applaud Christie but it may be too late. For those interested, I highly recommend reading The Soprano State by Bob Ingle and Sandy McClure. It’s an infuriating expose of the pervasive corruption at the state and local levels in NJ, and I couldn’t put it down.
California could sure use a Governor like Chris Christie. We are in really bad shape over here and in dire need of someone who will explain the facts without spin and clear out the dross.
What do you think folks, possible future Presidential Candidate?
Christie should have little trouble winning re-election in 2013; except maybe if Cory Booker runs against him, who being a liberal black Democrat, is the darling of the media elites. Although to be fair, he has actually done a pretty decent job as Mayor of Newark. He’s much more formidable than the Obamessiah.
Fortunately for Christie, he’s likely gearing up to replace Lautenberg in the Senate.
Governor Christie’s talents are wasted in New Jersey. He is the type of person we need in Washington DC instead of what we are dealing with now. If only, we could find more men and women with his outstanding qualities,we would finally be able to extract our great country, from the morass the present politicians have created. Governor Christie,Governor Brewer, Michelle Bachman and Marco Rubio are prime examples of the type of Politician needed to restore America and save it from those who want to fundamentally change America. We love our country the way it is, and to h##l with those who scheme to change it! November 2,2010 is the chance for that change. Vote wisely on that day and again in 2012 to restore our values. Please no more CLINTONS in 2012– We’ve had enough of them in our lifetime!!!
It is a bitter commentary on out political system when a direct and logical response to a public concern “makes the news.”