Reader says Lonegan is the true conservative and small-government candidate

Reader says Lonegan is the true conservative and small-government candidate

Lonegan was the true conservative and small-government candidate in the primary against Christie. Christie then out-flanked Lonegan and painted him as extreme.

After securing the primary win and defeating Corzine, Christie went on to bash everyone in his path with Alinsky-like tactics as so prominently used by the Obama campaign. He did most of his ham-handed political schtick in the first year so he had time to politically recover.

Last fall, when Hurricane Sandy had finished ravaging the Jersey Shore, Christie was singing Springsteen’s “Sandy” along with his new bud, The President, and gave Obama the perfect backdrop just a week before Election Day to show that our chief executive was compassionate. Obama surged past Romney and never looked back.

Since then, Christie’s moves to tack to the left to pander for votes is outright embarrassing. New Jersey has yet to shake off the effects of the long recession and his cozy relationship with the Democrat Party is distancing him from broad GOP support which he’ll need to run for president in 2016.

Even democrats acknowledge the Christie juggernaut as the support for candidate Barbara Buono has been lukewarm, at best. Christie can then pad his resume with a 2nd term win in November.

What we are witnessing is a long-term plan to help no one except the Governor himself. If anyone benefits from his actions, it’s because it was part of his own personal agenda. When asked about 2016, he plays coy but it’s almost certain that he’ll change his tune sometime in 2014 with the 2013 election long over.

In the meantime, the citizens of New Jersey get the bipartisan shaft from another shameless governor with Presidential aspirations.