we have got to learn what buckley always told us to do. look at the realities in front of us. and deal with those realities in our politics. we re sort of dop l gangers you and i. i have a jealous interest in this. i want to see two parties i can choose from. i don t think i ve got them right now. but i grew up in a state of pennsylvania where we had people like bill scranton and tom ridge i could have voted for. they were pragmatists. they may not have been in bed with labor some people like them to be, but they were good leaders. i think the country is better off having people like that before christie. we grew up with the northeast packed with people like ed brooke and people like that across. you re losing them all though. olympia snow is leaving. here s the thing though. chris christie is no susan collins. christie isn t even christine todd whitman. chris christie is a guy i could
chris christie is no susan collins. christie isn t even christine todd whitman. chris christie is a guy i could have served with in the hard core wing of the 1994 republican congress. he would have voted with me 100% of the time on these contract with america issues. he wouldn t have gone soft on some of the things that let s say a more moderate republican would go soft on. which is fine. but christie is a hard core jeb bush, joe scarborough conservative. and the fact that some people in washington, d.c. are angry at this guy because he did what any governor would have done. what jeb bush did when bill clinton came to the state of florida when we were having trouble, jeb bush worked with the man who beat his father in an ugly 1992 campaign. because jeb bush you put the interest of florida first. that s what christie is doing. i m telling you.
it s a big compliment to herman cain. that s a big compliment. they said, he voted for t.a.r.p. he was pro-t.a.r.p. let s look at him on immigration because he wants to give control to too much control to individual states and so forth. so, i think they re taking notice of him. it s hard not to with the fox news poll showing herman cain shooting up from 6% to, i think, 17% in their latest poll. there s no question he did a bang up job down in florida the other day. you know, florida really matters in the whole scheme of things. ron kerry, i d like to get your conservative republican perspective on the christie for president phenomenon that may or may not turn out to be real. we know rush limbaugh is very suspicious saying christie isn t really one of them, he didn t a ditto head limbaugh hard core conservative. how do you think christie would be received in this campaign? i think he would suffer the
that s a big compliment. they said, he voted for t.a.r.p. he was pro-t.a.r.p. let s look at him on immigration because he wants to give control to too much control to individual states and so forth. so, i think they re taking notice of him. it s hard not to with the fox news poll showing herman cain shooting up from 6% to, i think, 17% in their latest poll. there s no question he did a bang up job down in florida the other day. you know, florida really matters in the whole scheme of things. ron kerry, i d like to get your conservative republican perspective on the christie for president phenomenon that may or may not turn out to be real. we know rush limbaugh is very suspicious saying christie isn t really one of them, he didn t a ditto head limbaugh hard core conservati conservative. how do you think christie would be received in this campaign? i think he would suffer the same fate of rick perry where he may jump out as flavor of the month but once you start to peel
that s a big compliment. they said, he voted for t.a.r.p. he was pro-t.a.r.p. let s look at him on immigration because he wants to give control to too much control to individual states and so forth. so, i think they re taking notice of him. it s hard not to with the fox news poll showing herman cain shooting up from 6% to, i think, 17% in their latest poll. there s no question he did a bang up job down in florida the other day. you know, florida really matters in the whole scheme of things. ron kerry, i d like to get your conservative republican perspective on the christie for president phenomenon that may or may not turn out to be real. we know rush limbaugh is very suspicious saying christie isn t really one of them, he didn t a ditto head limbaugh hard core conservative. how do you think christie would be received in this campaign? i think he would suffer the same fate of rick perry where he may jump out as flavor of the month but once you start to peel the onion back and lo