Exeter, N.H. — It was a rally for Mitt Romney, but it was Chris Christie who brought the hundreds of attendees to their loudest cheers in the cavernous high-school gym.
“We can no longer put up with the most pessimistic man I’ve ever seen in the Oval Office,” Christie told the crowd.
Referring to President Obama’s class-warfare rhetoric, Christie said that Obama’s solution was to take “pie” from those who had a bigger “piece,” keep the bulk of it, and then give some to those with a smaller piece. In contrast to that, “Mitt Romney believes that the size of the American piece is infinite,” Christie said.
When he was interrupted during his remarks by Occupy protesters shouting, “Christie kills jobs! Christie kill jobs!” Christie deadpanned, “Really?”
“Somebody’s going down tonight, but it ain’t going to be jobs, sweetheart,” Christie rejoined from the stage as the chanting continued from a cluster in the audience. “There’s this confusion that’s out there because if she was in New Jersey . . . she would know that we created 60,000 new private-sector jobs.”
Saying that the female protester was “blinded” by her enthusiasm for Obama, Christie continued, “And if she wasn’t so disoriented by the loss of hope and change, she’d understand that . . . Mitt Romney is the hope for America’s future.”
He went on to blast Obama to the clapping and cheering attendees as a “Chicago ward politician.”
It was in marked contrast to how Romney had handled the protesters who interrupted him earlier at the event. Romney had simply remarked, “Oh, this is our regular group here,” when the shouting began, and after discussing how great free speech was, urged the protesters to have more “courtesy” next time.
Christie ended with a plea to Granite State voters.
“New Hampshire, everyone is watching you,” he said. “Send a strong message back, when America is watching on Tuesday night. You tell them we’ve seen presidential candidates up and down in this state, and we know a president when we see one, and he is right here.”
“Somebody’s going down tonight, but it ain’t going to be jobs, sweetheart,”
WtheF?
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseHaha! Christie is awesome!!! Romney 2012!!
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseNo class Christie. Somebody calls my daughter sweetheart, I'll pop the obese jerk in his neck waddle.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseIt isn't surprising that the often hungry Chris Christie would become angry at anyone suggesting that someone have a smaller slice of pie and share with others. Also, it isn't surprising that he has fantasies considering unlimited quantities of pie.
I for one am here to say that Chris Christie would be better off if he would stop gorging himself on so much pie and thought about hitting the gym.
I am sorry, but to have this guy talk in an angrily defensive manner about how no one should complain when someone takes too big of a slice of pie and how there really is unlimited pie is just hilarious.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseYeah, you can bet nobody ever sat down to dessert and got a bigger piece of pie than Gov. Christie. The miracle would be if they got any at all. Cordially, Bill
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseTypically fatuous comment. Bet you worked for hours on that, didn't you?
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseIt is interesting that you describe the comment as "fat"uous.
A hungry Chris Christie doesn't like it when you tell him to eat less pie! There is unlimited pie for everyone, so it doesn't matter how much he eats!
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseI get it! It's funny because Gov. Christie is fat! And it's fun to make fun of fat people, because they're fat! Hah!
Reply to this commentLinkReport Abusechristie is good. but the truth is that Romney is great. When faced with a young man from Occupy NH, who questioned him about the 1%, he heard him out and then gave him a lesson in economics. with a dose of the constitution for good measure. the kid shut up, probably a convert, and the crowd cheered. i'm sure you must approve of that method, right?
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Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseChristie, who is (treading gently and respectfully here) a round man, "squares" off with Occupiers, deploying a food metaphor as he goes, and to people who utilize hunger strikes as a method of persuasion.
Color me highly entertained, I guess.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseThe Draft Christie for Press Secretary movement begins now
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseI don't know.
I wonder if we can really afford to have him anywhere near the White House kitchen, given our current fiscal situation...
Besides, I am worried that he might attack the President in an uncontrollable fit of outrage if the President tries to have a slice of pie.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseSounds to me like you're talking about CVN-44 Michelle Obama rather than Governor Christie.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseHow embarrassing, for you...
Really puts the juvenile in a new category of low and rather pathetic.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseI believe it was Aristotle or Plato who advanced the philosophy that one should first be able to govern oneself before contemplating governing others.
The fact that Chris Christie cannot govern himself or control his pie eating tendencies, I think, is relevant when we consider whether he should govern others.
Reply to this commentLinkReport Abuseyou are so right. just must also agree that it's the same for the President who cannot control his nicotine addiction, right?
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseYou missed the point that Christie isn't telling us what we should eat, unlike the amazingly hypocritical Obamas.
What's your motto? 'No ad hominem attack too small or too inaccurate to deliver'?
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseDoes being unable to quit smoking count as well?
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseChristie "rocks"...
A tell tale comment of the debate Saturday Night was when Mitt Romney responded very strongly to Huntsman, reminding all the hard work Romney and others put in during the two years to elect fellow Republicans around the Country to block the Democratic Partisan folly, as Huntsman was working for Obama as an Ambassador.
Romney campaigned, helped, even funded a number of successful runs in the 2010 primary. Including Christie, Haley, etc. They clearly are returning the favor.
Some who jumped from Trump, to Bachmann, to Perry, to Gingrich, (now probably to Santorum), actually claimed on the NRO Corner that Christie would not be a factor. They even demeaned him. They were wrong.
Christie is excellent...
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseAt least this time Christy did not threaten to go "Jersey style" on recalitrent New Hampshirians as he did Iwoans.
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