tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36856489.post8109139437620996682..comments2023-10-12T07:43:47.713-04:00Comments on taxmanblog: Give us more of the chubbyUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36856489.post-24907225063501303072011-02-19T14:15:25.651-05:002011-02-19T14:15:25.651-05:00Christie is not far right, but he's right. And...Christie is not far right, but he's right. And he's solid in his position. That makes him more conservative than say newt gingrich who is rhetorically far right, but does a beeline for the middle on anything specific. Christie is like a rock.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36856489.post-46243441749965562922011-02-18T12:55:25.996-05:002011-02-18T12:55:25.996-05:00He's blazing a trail. Conservatives would rat...He's blazing a trail. Conservatives would rather have a choice between solid left and solid right and lose than a choice between far left and middle left, with the middle left candidate winning. <br /><br />That's because if both candidates move left, the left has already won before the first vote is cast. People don't realize that today's prototypical republican candidate is fiscally to the left of positions held by JFK and FDR. These two were proponents of a larger government, but they never presided over an entitlements system as large as the one being guarded by most republicans today.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com