{"id":8824,"date":"2011-03-02T14:51:30","date_gmt":"2011-03-02T19:51:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=8824"},"modified":"2011-03-02T14:51:30","modified_gmt":"2011-03-02T19:51:30","slug":"chris-christie-claims-he-would-win-if-he-ran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/8824\/chris-christie-claims-he-would-win-if-he-ran\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Christie Claims He Would Win If He Ran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Previous <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myfoxny.com\/dpp\/news\/politics\/nj-gov-chris-christie-only-suicide-would-put-2012-rumors-to-rest-ncx-20101104\" target=\"_blank\">threats of suicide<\/a> notwithstanding, Governor Chris Christie (R-NJ) isn\u2019t doing much these days to tamp down speculation he might run for president next year.\u00a0 In an interview with <em>National Review<\/em>, Christie says he knows he could <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcnewyork.com\/news\/local\/Christie__I_could_win_the_W_H_-117213923.html?dr\" target=\"_blank\">win the presidency<\/a> if he ran.\u00a0 The issue holding him back is his belief that he isn\u2019t ready to be successful.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>He added, &#8220;The issue is not me sitting here and saying, &#8216;Geez, it might be too hard. I don\u2019t think I can win.&#8217; I see the opportunity both at the primary level and at the general election level. I see the opportunity. But I\u2019ve got to believe I\u2019m ready to be president, and I don\u2019t. And I think that that\u2019s the basis you have to make that decision.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think when you have people who make the decision just based upon seeing the opportunity you have a much greater likelihood that you\u2019re going to have a president who is not ready. And then we all suffer from that. Even if you\u2019re a conservative, if your conservative president is not ready, you\u2019re not going to be good anyway because you\u2019re going to get rolled all over the place in that town.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The most attractive aspect of Christie\u2019s character is his ability to be direct and honest in public.\u00a0 It\u2019s true that history waits for no man, but Christie is watching President Obama make the kind of rookie mistakes on governing, foreign policy, and communication that Christie \u2013 rightly \u2013 wants to avoid.<\/p>\n<p>America could use more self-aware politicians like Chris Christie in 2012, 2016, and beyond.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Previous threats of suicide notwithstanding, Governor Chris Christie (R-NJ) isn\u2019t doing much these days to tamp down speculation he might run for president next year.\u00a0 In an interview with National Review, Christie says he knows he could win the presidency if he ran.\u00a0 The issue holding him back is his belief that he isn\u2019t ready [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[914,143,1193,1034,410],"class_list":["post-8824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-2012-presidential-election","tag-barack-obama","tag-campaign","tag-chris-christie","tag-new-jersey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8824"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8825,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8824\/revisions\/8825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}