Steve: You have a striking ability to portray the oppressors as the oppressed.

“As long as the Reeps refuse to moderate on these issues, they will continue to lose.”

And that’s only because the nation has been sold to the leeches and to the billionaire Wall Street crooks who continue to suck the lifeblood out of the middle class producers.

The middle class working man can no longer compete with the big money from the top 5% who shower the politicians with bribes for votes or with the growing masses of leeches who vote and live for free off the government. People vote for politicians that sweeten their pots for the least amount of effort. Your so-called “moderates” cave to both extremes leaving the middle class working man holding the empty bag. The Republicans have folded and caved on so many issues – to include ObamaCare, immigration reform, debt ceilings, irresponsible budget approvals, higher taxation, Obama’s illegal war in Libya, fiat money printing, etc, etc, etc…..

Chris Christie is really no fiscal conservative, btw. First off, NJ must balance their budget by law. All NJ governors must balance the budgets. It’s mandated. Christie balanced his budget like California addressed ours. By grossly exaggerating future revenue and underestimating future expenses. And by stealing money from one pot (ie, transportation) to fill another pot (ie, pension fund liabilities). Independent studies have placed NJ’s pension system @ 34% funded. Even the State of NJ claims it’s funded at only 67%. And we know that state’s lie about the amount of their unfunded pension liabilities. Christie did get some concessions from public labor. And that’s to his credit. But it’s far short from making any material difference. Why do you think NJ has amongst the lowest bond rating of any state in the union? When Christie sucked up to Obama during the 2012 presidential campaign and told America what a great guy Obama was – he lost my support forever.

I refuse to alter my political philosophy and vote for a moderate who bends over for liberals to gain political expedience. That’s a loser’s game. It only results in more damage to the nation. Everybody wants to take the easy road for political expedience. That road only goes so far until it turns into a cliff with a 300 ft dropoff.

This makes no sense. In today’s Republican Party, anyone who doesn’t focus on focus on ‘gays, guns and God’ is considered a RINO and a traitor. So who the hell is a moderate and independent voter supposed to vote for? A right-wing nut? I don’t think so. One major reason Cuccinelli lost was because of his far-right positions on reproductive rights, gays, etc. As long as the Reeps refuse to moderate on these issues, they will continue to lose.

Well said Skip D— Conservatives no longer care about the Country–If they did the would jettison the tea baggers and get back to Reagan, Nixon and Ike… winning is all they care about and there is some irony in the fact that they have no idea how to win or that their uber right wing hate filled agenda will be a loser for ever.It is sad because it brings out the worst in the left as well—- and so it goes…

If all we have left to vote for are liberals and weak-kneed RINOS who are willing to bend over and grab their ankles to further the liberal agenda – this country is living on borrowed time.

Chris Christie is NOT a RINO. He is just like Arnold, Republicans.

They are conservative/Republican on fiscal issues, and more moderate on social issues (though Christie was against gay marriage). That is not a RINO.

What the heck is good about ACA?