Prescott;468796 wrote:These polls don't mean squat. If Obama can energize the economy and get people back to work, he will win. If he doesn't, Mickey Mouse could beat him.

wgh raider;469138 wrote:quaker oats i sure can see christie getting elected in a republican primary down south!!! lol!!

NJ Gov. Chris Christie on "Morning Joe": This teacher complaining, they're getting four-to-five percent salary increases a year in a zero percent inflation world; they get free health benefits from the day they're hired--for their entire family--until the day they die. They believe they're entitled to this shelter from the recession when the people who are paying for that shelter are the people who have been laid off, who have lost their homes, had their hours cut back, and all we asked them to do was freeze their salary for one year and pay one-and-a-half percent of their salary for their health benefits. For the average teacher in New Jersey, you're talking about $750 a year for full-family health coverage. Now, I don't think that's a lot to ask, and I don't think we can continue anymore to be having the good people of New Jersey who have been laid off and all the rest--as much as I love teachers--you know, everyone's got to be part of the sacrifice.



Andrew Ross Sorkin: How do you do this in other states? How do you make this politically palatable? And you have a spine, but I've got to tell you, a lot of other politicians don't.



Christie: Well, they better get one because the times demand it. And if what you're going to do is just play the same old game and not speak directly to people and not treat them like adults, then you are bound for failure. Listen, all I'm doing is speaking the truth as I see it, and other people have to make their own judgments.



Sorkin: Are you not worried though about spending in your state in terms of those teachers who are actually going to be taking these cuts, whether they are going to be able to keep spending in the state and what that means for the economy?



Christie: First of all, they're not taking any cuts. I asked them to take cuts, and they said no. So, what cuts are they taking? These teachers are still getting their four or five percent increases. That interplay that you just saw was about me trying to convince people that they need to take a freeze, but, in the end, they didn't. The state teachers union said--they had a rally in Trenton against me. 35,000 people came from the teachers. You know what that rally was? The "me first" rally. "Pay me my raise first. Pay me my free health benefits first. Pay me my pension first. And everybody else in New Jersey, get to the back of the line." Well, you know what? I'm not going to sit by and allow that to go unnoticed, so we'll shine a bright light on it, and we'll see how the people react. But I think we are seeing how the people of New Jersey are reacting, and that's how you make it politically palatable in other states in the country. Just shine a bright light on greed and self-interest."

Paladin;468702 wrote:Let me simplify this for you since you are so ideological you can't see straight -- follow the polling on INDEPENDENTS over the last several decades and see where that leads you. Cut S.S. ? -- NO. Cut Medicare ? --NO, Cuts for unemployment? -- NO. In favor of starting another Middle East war? -- Love to see the Independents response on that.

wgh raider;469524 wrote:major the only way to win a republican nomination is to win primaries in the south. no way are those bible belters voting for a catholic!!

majorspark;469651 wrote:Oh I forgot the south is full of bible thumping religious bigots, racists, and homophobe red necks.

In the last ten years there have been several catholic governors elected to state wide office in the south. Three being republicans that would have made it through those bigotted republican primaries.

Alabama - Don Seigalman (D) Catholic
Florida - Jeb Bush (R) Catholic
Louisianna - Kathleen Blanco (D) Catholic
- Bobby Jindal (R) Catholic
North Carolina - Mike Easly (D) Catholic
Virginia - Tim Caine (D) Catholic
- Bob Mcdonnell (R) Catholic

Mr. 300;468519 wrote:And why would anyone be happy about this poll?? He's on his way to being one of the worst presidents of the modern era, and Ty's saying he wants him re-elected?? What the poll doesn't show is they asked 100% of democrats.

fish82;468365 wrote:You people throw that term around all the farking time. Why can't we?

Ty Webb;469810 wrote:Jindal will never win a national election because he was raised as a Hindu

Ty Webb;469969 wrote:Completely different situation Center....not even close to the same thing

I love how you classify 1 year living with his father learning at the knees of Islamic teachers.

I would vote for Jindal in a heartbeat(except in 2012),but I;m being realilistic

BRF;477570 wrote:Obama still has Ty Webb, though!