well, now, seven years later, president obama prepares to divide our nation to achieve re-election. this is not a leadership style. this is a re-election strategy. telling those who are scared and struggling that the only way their lives can get better is to diminish the success of others. insisting that we must tax and take and demonize those who have already achieved the american dream, that may turn out to be good re-election strategy, mr. president, but it is a demoralizing message for america. would you like to see him get in the race? do you think he will? is hard to say. i m going to leave that up to chris christie. he s an extraordinary communicator. he s a great governor. enormous reforms and everything from the pension system to budget reform in a blue state. i just happen to be vice chairman of the republican governor s association because he s such a terrific leader. i just think whoever is going to
now. and i want to ask you about your fellow governor chris christie up in new jersey. he was out at the reagan library this week. he quoted then-senator obama in the 2004 campaign where he talked about one america and used that against him, really, in his criticism. this is what governor christie said this week. well, now, seven years later, president obama prepares to divide our nation to achieve re-election. this is not a leadership style. this is a re-election strategy. telling those who are scared and struggling that the only way their lives can get better is to diminish the success of others. insisting that we must tax and take and demonize those who have already achieved the american dream, that may turn out to be good re-election strategy, mr. president, but it is a demoralizing message for america. would you like to see him get in the race? do you think he will?
those who have already achieved the american dream. that may turn out to be good re-election strategy, mr. president, but it s a demoralizing message for america. so what do you think? where is he going with this? he is taking it up a couple of notches. i believe that story that says that he is reconsidering his prior denials. but alex, here s something to keep an eye on if governor christie gets in to the race. i think many of those who are pining for him, because they want a conservative alternative to the candidates who are already announced are pretty darn surprised when they delve in to the record of governor christie and standing on a voo rity of issues, including the social issues. he is not doctriner that some wish for him to be. when i look at his platform and compare to the republican candidates thus far, i put him in a category with jon huntsman and the type of a candidate to win general election, but in
re-election strategy, mr. president, but it is a demoralizing message for america. of course, the president has never demonized any american, never said or done any of those things that christie imagines, but christie knew he was working in a fact-free zone. no one in that audience was prepared to recognize the truth, if christie had suddenly stumbled into telling it. after the speech, a particularly emotional audience member in the swoon of christie mania begged, just begged christie to reconsider his decision not to run for president. i mean this with all my heart. we can t wait another four years to 2016, and i [ applause ] i really implore you to as a citizen of this country to please, sir, to reconsider. i hear exactly what you re saying and i feel the passion with which you say it.
re-election strategy, mr. president, but it is a demoralizing message for america. of course, the president has never demonized any american, never said or done any of those things that christie imagines, but christie knew he was working in a fact-free zone. no one in that audience was prepared to recognize the truth, if christie had suddenly stumbled into telling it. after the speech, a particularly emotional audience member in the swoon of christie mania begged, just begged christie to reconsider his decision not to run for president. i mean this with all my heart. we can t wait another four years to 2016, and i [ applause ] i really implore you to as a citizen of this country to please, sir, to reconsider. i hear exactly what you re saying and i feel the passion with which you say it.