"He [Christie] is a moderate Democrat." [View all]

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This was said by one of the Republican/Teabagger guests who was on "On Point" with Tom Ashbrook this morning. These two guys were going through the litany of reasons why Christie would not be the R candidate in 2016. This was at the top of the list and underscored by presentations of a couple of examples of Christie assisting Dems at the expense of Rs in NJ. The guests also kept arguing that Romney was the last establishment candidate that will come out of the GOP because they believe they cannot win by fronting "moderate" candidates. Now, their definitions of "moderate" appears to be quite skewed. They also kept arguing that Christie was the same as Guiliani was the same as McCain, who is a liberal. It was bizzarro world.

Note: one of the callers (claimed she was an Independent) kept trying to set up Christie and Hillary for comparison using Bridgegate v. Benghazi.


Editing to add that one of them actually pointed back to the 2010 campaign and made the statement that it was when "Obamacare was being blamed on Romney."