{"id":790,"date":"2012-11-24T17:27:00","date_gmt":"2012-11-24T17:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/2012\/11\/24\/watch-your-back-gov-christie"},"modified":"2012-11-24T17:27:00","modified_gmt":"2012-11-24T17:27:00","slug":"watch-your-back-gov-christie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=790","title":{"rendered":"Watch your back, Gov. Christie"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/ballot-box\/presidential-races\/269129-christie-has-tightrope-to-walk-for-2016-presidential-bid\" href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/ballot-box\/presidential-races\/269129-christie-has-tightrope-to-walk-for-2016-presidential-bid\">http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/ballot-box\/presidential-races\/269129-christie-has-tightrope-to-walk-for-2016-presidential-bid<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I feel for New Jersey\u2019s Republican governor, Chris Christie.<\/p>\n<p>He is trying to juggle competing roles: as a budding GOP superstar and as someone who\u2019s committed the cardinal sin in right-wing circles by saying nice things about Democratic President Obama near the end of a hotly contested presidential election campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Christie is running for re-election as Garden State governor. He\u2019s apparently facing a challenge from the lunatic fringe of his party because he had high praise for the president in the wake of the federal response to Superstorm Sandy, which pummeled the Jersey Shore right before the election.<\/p>\n<p>Obama went to Jersey, toured the devastation, comforted heartbroken residents and declared that the White House was operating on what he called \u201cthe 15-minute rule.\u201d White House aides are to respond within 15 minutes of any call from the affected area \u201cand we\u2019re going to find a way to say \u2018yes,\u2019\u201d Obama said.<\/p>\n<p>That was music to Christie\u2019s ears. And he said so \u2026 many times.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s what reportedly has angered some within his party. <\/p>\n<p>But what\u2019s the problem? Christie was concerned first with his constituents. He reached out for federal assistance and POTUS himself answered the call. Both men were doing their jobs \u2013 not as partisans but as responsible elected officials charged with caring for those who depend on government to help them in times of distress.<\/p>\n<p>Should the governor win re-election next year \u2013 and a big part of me hopes he does \u2013 he\u2019ll be positioned to run for president in 2016, if that\u2019s his desire. But the tea party cabal within his party has demonstrated an annoying talent for running competent Republicans out of office (see Sen. Dick Lugar of Indiana and former Sen. Bob Bennett of Utah, to cite just two prominent examples). <\/p>\n<p>Watch your back, governor.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/ballot-box\/presidential-races\/269129-christie-has-tightrope-to-walk-for-2016-presidential-bid I feel for New Jersey\u2019s Republican governor, Chris Christie. He is trying to juggle competing roles: as a budding GOP superstar and as someone who\u2019s committed the cardinal sin in right-wing circles by saying nice things about Democratic President Obama near the end of a hotly contested presidential election campaign. Christie is running for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=790\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Watch your back, Gov. Christie<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}