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What would a Christie presidential candidacy mean for New Jersey?

Would he resign to campaign full time?

If not:

*Loretta Weinberg and Joe Cryan will issue daily press releases highlighting the cost to New Jersey taxpayers of Christie and his security detail shaking hands at an Iowa meat packing plant or playing shuffle board at The Villages.

* Lt. Governor Kim Guadagno will be called Acting Governor but in reality she will be spokesperson and place holder for Christie should he lose the nomination or the election.

The New Jersey Press Corps will not take her seriously.  New Jersey’s newspapers will find the money to send reporters to follow Christie around the country.  Those reporters will ask the Governor New Jersey specific questions while the national press corps is asking him about his driving record and why he let a sex trafficker off easy in exchange for testimony against a corrupt public official while U.S. Attorney.

The legislative leadership will not take Guadagno seriously either.  The Democrats will work to forward their own agenda and undo the Christie reforms of the last twenty months.  Republicans won’t be as disciplined as they have been over the last twenty months.  Jockeying for the 2013 GOP gubernatorial nomination will start. Jockeying for the 2013 Democratic gubernatorial nomination will intensify.  Jon Hornick will no longer be considered a contender.

* Instead of answering to George Norcross and Joe DiVincenzo, Senate President Stephen Sweeney and the Assembly Speaker, either Sheila Oliver or Joe Cryan, will start answering to David Plouffe, David Axelrod and the White House as the New Jersey legislature becomes a subsidiary of the Obama campaign.

*Tom Kean Jr and Alex DeCroce will answer Weinberg’s and Cryan’s press releases with their own, highlighting how much the Trenton branch of the Obama campaign in costing New Jersey taxpayers.

* Nothing substaintial will get done in Trenton, which is not necessarily a bad thing.

If yes:

*Kim Guadagno becomes governor and the Christie era is over. 

Either way:

Who of Christie’s staff stays behind to support the Governor?  Does she have her own loyal team from which to build a staff?

*Steve Lonegan starts running for the 2013 nomination for governor.

* The best Republican talent in New Jersey latches on to the Christie for President or the Kyrillos for Senate campaigns hoping for powerful jobs in Washington come January of 2013.

Trenton goes back to business as usual.

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Posted: September 30th, 2011 | Author: | Filed under: Uncategorized | 18 Comments »

18 Comments on “What would a Christie presidential candidacy mean for New Jersey?”

  1. Observer said at 10:53 am on September 30th, 2011:

    Art if you are correct in your analysis NJ is doomed either way if Christie decides to run for President.

  2. Barbara said at 11:38 am on September 30th, 2011:

    I believe that Christie is being sought after because of the rise in polls of more conservative candidates like Cain. Instead of the GOP embracing the conservative, which is what the People obviously want, the GOP is in panic mode to put (or drag) someone in that they see as the hero. This is a big mistake in my opinion. First of all, who wants someone to be President that has repeatedly said he doesn’t want to be President? Secondly, Christie is a moderate republican and most people want a more conservative republican to run. Again, this is clear if you look at the polls. Christie will be ripped apart on these issues, plus many others. RGGI, gun laws, immigration, ObamaCare…..etc., etc., etc. He should remain as our Governor, stand up to the courts, sign on the ObamaCare lawsuit, fix the school funding formulas…. finish the jobs that he so boldly said he would do.

  3. Phil Perspective said at 11:50 am on September 30th, 2011:

    I have a question. What happens if Christie is the GOP nominee for President and loses? Does he still run for a 2nd term as Governor? Does even running for President squash any chance he has for re-election as Governor?

  4. brian said at 1:13 pm on September 30th, 2011:

    ln the first debate, Gov you-tube will be exposed as the liberal failure he is.

  5. Phil Perspective said at 2:54 pm on September 30th, 2011:

    Brian:
    So Christie is a RINO? MMmm, okay!!

  6. Not anyone important said at 3:27 pm on September 30th, 2011:

    @Phil, to a wing-nut like Brian, EVERYONE is a RINO.

    But, you are a wing-nut as well, Phil.

    Lucky for the rest of us, you two are the minority fringe, and amount to about 10% combined of the voters.

  7. brian said at 3:55 pm on September 30th, 2011:

    Conservatives don’t: believe in Algore warming, appoint terror friendly judges, celebrate a victory mosque at GZ, allow 20% of the State’s budget to be spent on illegals, increase gov’t spending by 6%, increase funding to the edumafia by $1.5 billion, appoint a liberal attorney general, allow the state’a rating to be downgraded, allow the PA to increase tolls by 50%———but other than that he’s a rock-ribbed Reagan conservative—in your mind.

  8. brian said at 3:59 pm on September 30th, 2011:

    There is ONE republican governor not signed on to the lawsuit against Obamacare—-that bastion of conservatism, Gov you-tube.
    And, that staunch conservative hero, Gov you-tube, has been in office longer than most other R’s—-who’s States have been upgraded—-but silly me using facts…..

  9. Phil Perspective said at 4:41 pm on September 30th, 2011:

    Brian:
    What will you say when the Supreme Court votes to uphold “ObamaCare” by a 6-3, or 7-2, vote?

  10. TR said at 5:50 pm on September 30th, 2011:

    Did anybody read todays paper. It has already started. If they attack Perry for not being conservative enough what will they do to our Governor.
    He will not run. He could beat Obama but he will not win the primary. Not this year. He is smart enough to know that.

  11. Freespeaker1976 said at 6:11 pm on September 30th, 2011:

    Correct me if I am wrong, but did Governor Christie refuse to sign on to one of the lawsuits against Obummer Care?

    If so, does anyone know why?

    He just lost a notch of my consideration of his Presidential possibilities knowing this…

  12. Barbara said at 7:23 pm on September 30th, 2011:

    Freespeaker…he said that we needn’t spend the money when we can just piggy back off the others. As the most prominant Governor in the nation, it would have said volumes had he signed on. More states would have signed on as well.
    The message that the left gets now, is that none of our candidates can beat Obama. It says that the Republican party has no faith in the other candidates, so much so, that they have to drag a kicking, screaming man to jump in. One that has said a hundred times that he doesn’t want to be President. This is terrible. Some republicans on my FB page make it sound like Christie will be the savior of 2012. Excuse me, but conservatives have a few candidates in the race that they think are very able. In fact….Cain is Able! Pardon the pun.

  13. Freespeaker1976 said at 7:42 pm on September 30th, 2011:

    Barbara,

    Yes, that’s what I found out about the lawsuit and I am with you on everything else including the Cain Train.

    Have already sent my considerable grass roots resume to the campaign should he set up shop in NJ…

    Depending on how the primary schedule shakes out, I might even travel to one of the early states!

  14. brian said at 8:09 pm on September 30th, 2011:

    Actually, l expect Obamacare to be upheld 5-4 because Kennedy is both a liberal and afraid of his legacy being smeared by the MFM—-but leaders lead and stand by what they believe. Silence is complicity.

  15. Phil Perspective said at 9:00 pm on September 30th, 2011:

    Brian:
    If Kennedy is such a liberal, how come the rich/corporations won the Citizens United case?

  16. brian said at 9:05 pm on September 30th, 2011:

    Apples—First amendment
    Oranges–commerce clause
    Apples–campaign finance
    Oranges–Milhous’s legacy and a wet dream of leftists since Wilson
    Apples–post-election
    Oranges–pre-election

  17. Who Cares? said at 2:48 am on October 1st, 2011:

    Many people who supported him as governor will turn against him if he runs for President at this time. He said umpteen times he would not run. If he does, his word means zero.

    He should finish the job he started here. Get reelected governor. Get some foreign policy experience. Lose some weight and then if he feels qualified run in 4, 8 or 12 years from now.

  18. speedkillsu said at 3:45 pm on October 2nd, 2011:

    You do not want to be President in the middle of the country’s collapse ,you want to be the leader to rebuild the country ….