Four New Jersey Tea Party groups and a Southern California Tea Party group joined forces today in warning national Republicans not to nominate a moderate for president in 2016. In their joint statement released this morning, the Bayshore Tea Party Group, the East Jersey Tea Party Group, the NJ TEA Party Caucus and the Ventura County Tea Party from California claimed credit for the 2008 and 2012 electoral victories on President Barack Obama and promised more of the same if a moderate or liberal Republican is nominated in 2016.
In the event a moderate or liberal republican is nominated by the GOP in 2016, the Tea Party groups that joined together in this statement, have pledged to refuse any support for that nominee and urge all concerned Americans who believe in liberty, prosperity, smaller government and fiscal responsibility, to join them in their action. Other groups throughout the nation are expected to join within the weeks and months to come.
A moderate Republican will result in the continuation of lower Conservative Republican voter turnout that began in the late 1990’s and was a significant contributor to Republican Presidential loses in 2008 and 2012.
Bayshore Tea Party Group Co-founder Barbara Gonzalez said the groups have polled their members and found that the majority will not support a Republican nominee who does not pass their litmus tests. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted: March 10th, 2014 | Author: Art Gallagher | Filed under: 2016 Presidential Politics, Barbara Gonzalez, Bayshore Tea Party Group | Tags: 2016 Presidential politics, Barbara Gonzalez, Bayshore Tea Party Group, East Jersey Tea Party, Highlands, NJ TEA Party Caucus, President Barack Obama, Skip Ross, Tea Party, The Sand Witch Shop, Ventura County Tea Party | 13 Comments »
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Posted: March 6th, 2014 | Author: admin | Filed under: 2014 Elections, Chris Christie, CPAC | Tags: 2014 Elections, 2016 Presidential politics, Chris Christie, CPAC | Comments Off on Chris Christie: Media can’t define us
If Governor Chris Christie’s presidential prospects have been damaged by the Bridgegate scandal and associated investigations, you wouldn’t know it by the amount of television cameras at the Town Hall Meeting in Port Monmouth this morning. Middletown officials estimate the crowd was about 500 people. There was easily 50 members of the media including reporters, photographers and videographers.
There was no swagger from the Governor today. No fist pumps, no snazzy introductory video, no in your face insults to hostile questioners. Christie dodged the only hostile question he heard. The Youtube moment came not from an idiot or thin skinned reporter, but from a three year old girl who said her house is still broken.
Bridgegate, the controversy over the September lane closures at the George Washington Bridge that has spurred investigations by the U.S. Attorney and a Special Legislative Committee never came up. The people who came to today’s meeting would gladly trade places with the Bergen County residents who were inconvenienced by traffic jams for four days. They been without their homes for 16 months.
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Posted: February 20th, 2014 | Author: Art Gallagher | Filed under: 2016 Presidential Politics, Chris Christie, RREM, Superstorm Sandy | Tags: 2016 Presidential politics, Chris Christie, Christie Town Hall Meeting, Media, Middletown, Port Monmouth, Reconstruction Rehabilitation Elevation and Mitigation, RREM, Sea Bright, Tom Largey | Comments Off on A New Christie For A New Normal
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Posted: February 11th, 2014 | Author: admin | Filed under: Chris Christie, Republican Governors Association | Tags: 2016 Presidential politics, Chis Christie, Republican Governors Association, RGA | Comments Off on Christie in his element: Governor takes a break from bridge scandal at Q&A in Chicago
Chris Christie to speak at CPAC a year after snub (via
NJ.com)
NEWARK — A year after being denied a speaking spot at one of the largest annual gatherings of conservatives, Gov. Chris Christie will speak at the Conservative Political Action Conference next month, according to a report on Yahoo News. The gathering…
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Posted: February 3rd, 2014 | Author: admin | Filed under: 2016 Presidential Politics, Chris Christie | Tags: 2016 Presidential politics, Chris Christie, CPAC | 2 Comments »
Chris Christie huddles with top GOP donors in Florida (via
NJ.com)
NORTH PALM BEACH, Fla. — Gov. Chris Christie spent the afternoon with an elite group of Republican donors at the seaside home of Home Depot co-founder Kenneth Langone. Two black SUVs entered the lush golfing community called Lost Tree Village, where…
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Posted: January 19th, 2014 | Author: admin | Filed under: 2016 Presidential Politics, Chris Christie | Tags: 2016 Presidential politics, Bridgegate, Chris Christie, Dawn Zimmer, Florida, Hoboken, Kenneth Langone, Republican Governors Association, RGA, Rick Scott | Comments Off on Chris Christie huddles with top GOP donors in Florida
As was the case in the early days of the 2008 presidential campaign, which started the day after George W. Bush’s reelection in 2004, Hillary Clinton is considered a lock for the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination.
Along came Davids Plouffe and Axelrod to snatch the 2008 nomination away from Hillary in favor of an unknown and untouchable freshman U.S. Senator from Illinois, Barack Obama.
Presidential campaigns are big business. If James Carville and Company cruise Clinton to the nomination without a fight, Plouffe and Axelrod stand to lose out on millions in consulting fees as well as their seats at the pinnacle of power.
For most of her adult life, President John F. Kennedy’s daughter Caroline, kept a low profile and went by her married name, Schlossberg.
After Clinton was named President Obama’s Secretary of State, Kennedy Schlossberg briefly entertained the idea of running for the New York U.S. Senate seat vacated by the appointment.
Now that she is Obama’s Ambassador to Japan, Caroline is officially a Kennedy.
A Caroline Kennedy for President campaign is a long shot. But not as long as shot as Barack Obama’s candidacy was in 2005.
You have to wonder why she would start using her maiden name after 27 years, if she wasn’t running for something.
Posted: December 15th, 2013 | Author: Art Gallagher | Filed under: 2016 Presidential Politics | Tags: 2016 Presidential politics, Caroline Kennedy, Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg | 7 Comments »
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Posted: December 12th, 2013 | Author: admin | Filed under: 2016 Presidential Politics | Tags: 2016 Presidential politics, Chris Christie, Hillary Clinton, Polls | Comments Off on Chris Christie, Hillary Clinton neck-and neck in mock 2016 race, new polls show
Four New Jersey Tea Party groups and a Southern California Tea Party group joined forces today in warning national Republicans not to nominate a moderate for president in 2016. In their joint statement released this morning, the Bayshore Tea Party Group, the East Jersey Tea Party Group, the NJ TEA Party Caucus and the Ventura County Tea Party from California claimed credit for the 2008 and 2012 electoral victories on President Barack Obama and promised more of the same if a moderate or liberal Republican is nominated in 2016.
