Christie Team Assessing How Fast a 2012 Campaign Could Be Mounted

[housewolf]

Christie Team Assessing How Fast a 2012 Campaign Could Be Mounted

Chris Christie’s political advisers are working to determine whether they could move fast enough to set up effective political operations in Iowa and New Hampshire in the wake of a relentless courtship aimed at persuading Mr. Christie, the governor of New Jersey, to plunge into the race for the Republican presidential nomination, according to operatives briefed on the preparations.

Mr. Christie has not yet decided whether to run and has not authorized the start of a full-fledged campaign operation. But with the governor now seriously considering getting in, his strategists — many of them veterans of Rudolph W. Giuliani’s 2008 campaign — are internally assessing the financial and logistical challenges of mounting a race with less than 100 days until voting is likely to begin.

Those challenges include not only raising money, but also spending it effectively in the crucial states with early primaries. That would mean meeting filing deadlines, hiring staff members, recruiting volunteers, putting together a travel schedule for Mr. Christie and his surrogates and devising a media campaign.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/02/us/politics/christie-team-assessing-how-fast-a-2012-campaign-could-be-mounted.html?_r=2#politics

[flamingdem]

1. Romney very pissed right now nt

[Kennah]

2. That's not true. A 2D piece of clipart cannot be pissed.

[flamingdem]

5. That's true. If he sweats a drop he'll run nt

[gateley]

3. I believed him - over and over - when he said he wasn't going to run.

Think I'll still be surprised if he gets in.

[flamingdem]

6. A weighty decision I'm sure nt

[Pab Sungenis]

9. Please stop making fun of his weight.

Start making fun of what a shitty governor he's been. There's more material there.

[freshstart]

11. The teachers and the cops

believed him when he said during his campaign that he wasn't going after their pensions too and look how that turned out. If there is one thing Christie has proven himself to be, it is a liar.

"I will protect your pensions. Nothing about your pension is going to change when I am governor. - Chris Christie, "An Open Letter to the Teachers of NJ" October, 2009"

http://jerseyjazzman.blogspot.com/2010/08/christies-letter-to-teachers-gone-but.html

[Demeter]

4. Fools rush in where angels fear to tread

Just slightly faster than these clowns can get out of their clown car, they can go down in a pratfall...

[tabatha]

7. Are the bankers runnning scared?

[justgamma]

8. They begged him to save the day just like

Fred Thompson. :rofl:

[TheCowsCameHome]

10. How fast can they find a big saddle.

[freshstart]

12. Christie knows that he probably will lose in the next

governor's race...and then he'd have a hard time running for pres at all.

[yellowcanine]

13. "...his strategists — many of them veterans of Rudolph W. Giuliani’s 2008 campaign..."

:rofl:

Yeah! Let's use those political geniuses who managed Rudy's 2008 campaign!

[Faygo Kid]

14. It's the Kochs. They are behind this extraordinary push.

And of course they have unlimited funds to throw into this, thanks to the Citizens United decision. They won't take no for an answer, and no doubt have promised Christie that he's set for life if he runs, no matter the result.

Christie is a union-buster. That's what the Kochs want, and why they are pushing him into the race.

[flamingdem]

18. sounds plausibe BUT he's not Koch-esque on social issues, not teabag enough nt

[1StrongBlackMan]

15. While Christie may face "challenges" ...

We can rest assured that the media will do all they can to smooth his path.

[blkmusclmachine]

16. Go for it, Christy.

n/t

[Politicalboi]

17. Are they going to

Dress him in drag and kiss The Donald too.

[flamingdem]

19. Hard to put lipstick on the pig sometimes lol nt