re: #148 Dark_Falcon

Christie can be bombastic at times, I agree, but his anger is born out of his desire to get the job done. It can’t really be separated from that drive, and it is that drive that makes him effective.

As for his use of connected firms: Christie does that to keep favor within the party and maintain his political funding base. New Jersey is an expensive state to run media campaigns in and his reelection campaign will need to spend millions. He also needs to keep the Super PACs onside.

His anger and drive are trying to get a 10% income tax cut passed here, with no explanation as to how to pay for it.

I would imagine his anger and drive will try to pay for said tax cut on the backs of people who can’t afford it.

In other words typical GOP bullshit.

As I’ve said before, he’s doing all he can for NJ in the wake of Sandy, to the point of being labeled a traitor for being bipartisan. I really do laud him for that.

At the end of the day, however, he still subscribes to many GOP policies that don’t work. It’s a bit of “Change the tone, not the policy” that many Republicans are clinging to. The only good thing is that he doesn’t seem to have that nasty misogynist/racist streak embraced/tolerated in the GOP today.