tie obama to these democratic candidates. what you haven t seen a lot of, however, is a real full-throated defense of obamacare, and in some ways you have to hand it to sheheen for writing to chris christie and calling hmm out on essentially what is a bit of hypocrisy there by funding this ad that criticizes sheheen for doing exactly what chris christie and a number of other republican governors have done. e.j., if you re going for any form of consistency here, the republican governors association would then have to run ads against republican candidates for governor like christie last time around, running for re-election, who support the medicaid expansion. i think there are eight of them counting christie who have taken the medicaid expansion, including john kasich, who actually fought republicans in the legislature to do it. and governors in a number of other states. sheheen really wrote a wonderful
form of consistency here, the republican governors association would then have to run ads against republican candidates for governor like christie last time around, running for re-election, who support the medicaid expansion. i think there are eight of them counting christie who have taken the medicaid expansion, including john kasich, who actually fought republicans in the legislature to do it. and governors in a number of other states. sheheen really wrote a wonderful letter calling christie s bluff. how many jobs has new jersey lost as a result of your decision to accept your medicaid dollars, he asked. how many businesses have been harmed by your choice, and so on. it was really a great way to call his bluff. there used to be a time in our country when you could say one thing in one part of the country and a different thing elsewhere. right before the civil war they printed up different campaign biographies for the north and the south. you can t get away with that anymore.
fund-raiser. also, rick perry in town. he s a republican governor as well, we know that, from texas, here for those meetings. and you know what? like christie, he s also thinking about making a run for the white house in 2016. if he does run, he and christie, well, they could be rivals. and catch this. listen to what perry said last night with wolf blitzer in the situation room about chris christie. take a listen. we re on the same team, we re working together, but let me tell you something, he s a competitor, and i m going to go and compete against him. i m going to go against and compete against rick scott. i m going to compete against bobby jindal, i m going to compete against nikki hailey. i m going to compete against jerry brown and pat quinn, and those guys are a little easier to compete against because of the policies they put into place. whoa, whoa, what s he talking about there? is he talking about 2016? it sure sounded like him and christie going at it in 2016, but he s
back in the day. chris christie was number one. now you can see mike huckabee is number one with 14%. what does this say to you? if you don t like christie, you must be terrified. that s a bit of a stretch. mike huckabee did very well last time. he was an amazing governor. he wasn t in the poll the last time you did it. anyone would take a hit if you had the media pile on that we have seen over this event. in fact i think the new york times what they did last weekend was reprehensible. it is it s up there with tabloid media. but the motion that this quote/unquote scandal that the assemblyman admits there is no smoking gun or action beyond ha the governor has taken and you see the throngs of media outside of a radio station is unreal.
troubled waters and here is somebody who is not as impressive but an impressive track record in wisconsin. other governors will get another look and some who don t like christie and they don t care what the donors think about him. i think that has been the headline from this. there is a great op-ed we will read talking about, you know, just the crazy overreaction online from all sides here. so there is a lot of ground noise right now but the signal of this story is the fact that so many conservatives hands off and quite a few were actually a little gleeful that chris christie is whisking in the wind. rich runs national review and one of the smartest conservative thinkers out there. he says it s a great wake-up call for chris christie. you thought you had all of these friends in the media and every show, every reporter, every