Naming
Rand Paul among “any number of people” who project a “dangerous strain” of libertarianism
on domestic surveillance, the Governor cites families in his state who lost
loved ones on 9/11:
“These
esoteric, intellectual debates--I want them to come to New Jersey and sit
across from the widows and the orphans and have that conversation. And they
won’t, because that’s a much tougher conversation to have...
“The
next attack that comes, that kills thousands of Americans as a result, people
are going to be looking back on the people having this intellectual debate and
wondering whether they put...”
Christie
cut himself off, but his comments at an Aspen Institute panel of GOP governors
challenge his party’s herd mentality on Obama-bashing, bringing up George W.
Bush.
The
policy the current President is following, he told them, “hasn’t been different
because they [sic] were right and
because we haven’t had another one of those attacks that cost thousands and
thousands of lives.”
As
Republicans "nerve up" to shut down government over Obamacare and the debt
ceiling, Christie offers a glimpse of an alternative to another 2016 kamikaze campaign
for the White House.
How
far he can go in primaries like those of the last presidential election where
ideological purity reigned is open to question, but his bluntness is a
promising sign.
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