Hold Your Nose And Vote For Chris Christie. Make Him Good For Something.

    I do not like Chris Christie.

He is arrogant. It is a quality that, several years ago, as an incumbent, cost Christie the nomination for Freeholder that he was trying to be reelected to.

He is inarticulate and unimpressive in speech, uninspiring as a leader, and he is unusually vague on the issues. As a candidate, his campaign has been horrendous. There has been no clear message made or tone set. The fertile issue of corruption was once Christie’s to run on. Yet even on that issue, he fizzled. Several breaches of his own ethics and conduct helped take the luster off of that bright spot.

As a Republican, I believe Chris Christie is a DIABLO, (Democrat In And By Label Only ). On the campaign trail, Mr. Christie is able to repeat the basic Republican principles and state how important tax cuts are and how they will bring jobs back to New Jersey. But beyond that, Chris Christie has failed to show any real commitment to those principles. He also failed to show any new approaches to old problems. Christie has not demonstrated any innovative programs that would implement conservative concepts into the practical application of state government.

No, I don’t like Mr. Christie.

I hope that my low regard for the man can be changed and that my description of him as a DIABLO is wrong. I hope that Chris Christie can be a better Governor than he has been as candidate. I would hope that he could run the state better than his manager ran his campaign.

Hope is all I have here. There is no alternative to him that is any better than him.

There is absolutely nothing that would make me a fan of Chris Christie and as such I was fully prepared to not vote for him on Election Day. But I also knew that I could not vote for Jon Corzine. Unlike Chris Christie who proved that he is a horrible candidate, Corzine proved that he is a horrible Governor.

The man has been a total failure. He took a state in trouble and turned it into a state in crisis. Businesses have run from New Jersey screaming, and the jobs that came with them followed the sound of those screams and fled to greener pastures. Corzine has done nothing but increase taxes, tolls and fees and he invented new taxes such as his tax on landscaping. Imagine that, Corzine came in and taxed the gardens in the Garden State.

New Jersey residents have seen Corzine cut secret deals with his ex-girlfriend who represented the largest union in New Jersey. We saw him try to create automatic toll increases that would go higher and higher for the next 15 years and he even proposed putting tolls on roads that don’t have tolls. In the mean time, every aspect of life has been downgraded and every expense in the state has risen.

Like Chris Christie, Corzine has no real plans to offer New Jerseyans. Instead he has simply tried to run a campaign that makes him seem like President Obama’s running mate.

So contemplating my voting for Jon Corzine was a nonstarter.

That left Chris Daggett, a former Republican turned independent who ran a campaign for Governor which essentially said that people should vote for him because he is not Christie or Corzine. Sounds good, but in his own right, Daggett is no better than Corzine or Christie. He lacks details and there is nothing to indicate that Daggett is anything but the status quo. The one thing that is clear is that Daggett will certainly raise taxes and help raise the cost of living in New Jersey

So I don’t want to vote for any of them. Not Chris Christie,not Jon Corzine or Chris Daggett either. I considered writing in a name. I considered John Murphy, the man who beat Christie in a Republican primary for Freeholder and ran for the Republican gubernatorial nomination four years ago. I thought about former State Assembly leader Paul DeGaetano, the promising Assemblyman and now Republican Party Chairman, conservative Jay Webber or maybe State Senator Jennifer Beck .

But it has come down to this.

I will not throw away my vote on a write-in candidate who will not register enough votes to win or make a significant difference. Nor will I throw away my vote on Chris Daggett who is no better than Corzine or Christie and promises to make life in New Jersey more difficult. I will also not use my vote to say “Good going, Governor Corzine. Keep up the good work!” There has been no good work.

I have decided that I will pull the lever next to Chris Christie’s name in the voting booth.

I will not vote for Chris Christie, I will simply pull the lever next to his name.

I will do so not because I want Chris Christie to be Governor, but rather because I want to send a message to the ruling regime in Washington, D.C. I want Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid to know that we despise them for the direction they are taking this nation and for what they are doing to us rather than for us. I want President Obama to understand that most Americans expect this country to be intact when his first term in office comes to an end.

Our nation is at a crossroad. We are currently governed by the most radically liberal government America has seen in decades. They are doing everything they can to centralize authority under a political class that is disconnected from the rest of the classes. They are doing everything they can to set up stringent socioeconomic controls on us, while relinquishing our national sovereignty and eroding our national identity and security.

For all these reasons Chris Christie will benefit from my vote on Tuesday. It is not because I like him or believe in him. But in an election for Governor between Tweedle-Dee, Tweedle-Dum and Tweedle-Dummer, I chose to send a shiver down the spines of the pseudo-socialist in Washington, D.C.. That shiver can only be created if the Democrats in control see that the one thing they most want is in jeopardy. Power. Their power.

Politicians are great at playing politics but now it is time to speak to the ones in power iand to do so in terms they can understand. We must play politics with them.

So vote Chris Christie on Tuesday, November 3^rd. Make him good for something and turn him into a sign. A sign that if Congress and the Administration of President Obama continue down the path they are taking, we will replace them with any sorry alternative there is, so long as it is not them.

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