OMG! These Poll Results Are HORRIFYING!

 

Christie, Trump, Jersey, America And The NJ GOP

Here's a commentary by Matt Rooney of Save Jersey about Chris Christie and the New Jersey Republican Party, written on the eve of the recent NJ GOP Leadership Summit in Atlantic City:

By Matt Rooney (reposted, with permission)

Chris Christie is back, Save Jerseyans!

And, naturally, he’s here to save us.

That’s the premise of NJ.com’s latest garbage Christie rehabilitation effort: “Can Chris Christie save the N.J. Republican Party again? He’s going to try.”

There’s just one inconvenient question:

Save it from whom?

The timing alone is remarkable. The story landed as New Jersey Republicans descended on Atlantic City for the NJGOP’s annual statewide leadership summit, a September 18-19 gathering explicitly organized to “connect, strategize, and RALLY to the Midterms.”

So while Republican candidates, activists and elected officials were assembling to build momentum for November, the former Republican governor was making headlines explaining why the current Republican Party has it all wrong.

Some rescue mission!

Christie’s argument isn’t new. Donald Trump is toxic, MAGA is the problem, and Republicans can only win New Jersey by attracting Democrats and independents who supposedly won’t consider a candidate associated with Trump. He’s made the same argument when Trump’s fortunes have been in the toilet AND when they’ve soared. He’s a bitter man.

You’re still entitled to agree with him?

But you’re not entitled to your own facts, and let’s please dispense with the notion that Christie is some disinterested Republican elder statesman descending from Mount Mendham to impart the ancient wisdom of winning elections.

This is a guy who endorsed Trump in 2016, joined his transition operation and remained in Trump’s orbit before Trump World realized he was a charlatan and kicked him to the curb mid-transition. Since their rupture, Christie has made opposition to Trump a defining feature of his national political identity.

He even built his 2024 presidential campaign around confronting Trump, a campaign which couldn’t get through New Hampshire.

Christie is also hardly a neutral observer of New Jersey Republican politics. He has continued involving himself in the party’s internal debates and contests while frequently finding himself at odds with the voters who presently constitute its base.

Christie is perfectly correct that Republicans cannot win statewide elections by talking only to Republicans. Republicans obviously need independents. They need persuadable Democrats to the extent they still exist. They need suburban voters. They need to relentlessly attack Trenton’s spending addiction, affordability, property taxes and a state budget that has exploded since Christie left office.

But there’s a rather large difference between expanding the Republican coalition (which is what President Trump did in 2024) and perpetually lecturing Republican voters that they’re the problem. This lecture is particularly obnoxious coming from Christie since he left the movement and the NJGOP itself in absolute shambles when he left office in January 2018. The state party still hasn’t recovered financially from rampant spending on Christie’s national travel and legal bills.

There’s also some selective history involved in pretending the Christie era represents a lost Republican paradise.

Yes, Christie won twice. His 2013 reelection was a landslide facilitated by forging self-interested alliances with Democrat party bosses and, in so doing, guaranteeing that he “won” with no coattails.

He also left office in January 2018 with historically poor approval numbers, and New Jersey Republicans haven’t won statewide since.

That history is considerably more complicated than “Chris Christie knew how to win, Republicans stopped listening, and everything fell apart.”

Maybe Christie sincerely believes his renewed intervention is helpful. Narcissists can talk themselves into almost anything.

New Jersey Republicans can and must decide that for themselves based upon his odious history.

But dropping a major story about rescuing the NJGOP at precisely the moment the NJGOP is gathering in Atlantic City to rally for the midterms is certainly an interesting way to demonstrate party unity.

For the better part of the post-Trump era, Christie has been much more comfortable explaining what’s wrong with Republicans than helping Republicans explain what’s wrong with Democrats.

Now he wants another turn at the wheel.

Republicans should reasonably wonder where he thinks he’s taking them.

Message To NJ GOP: Act Out, Act Up, Disrupt!

 

I've just returned from the New Jersey Republican Party's Annual Leadership Summit in Atlantic City. When I come back from one of these multi-day events, I almost always feel uplifted and hopeful for the future. And I say this even coming off of one of the worst defeats for the NJ GOP in recent memory. 

Why am I nonetheless encouraged? 

It's the people -- the genuine rank-and-file people that make the state party tick -- who give me the willingness, indeed the desire, to continue to plow onward. Because the people, all my New Jersey Republican friends, are good people, decent people, sensible people who really love and care about their state. 

And these people deserve better. They deserve better than what they're getting from the individuals who are running this state.

The simple fact is this: our stringently leftist state government comes across as arrogant, obstinate, secretive and disdainful of any type of criticism. In fact, it's devoid of even a semblance of respect for those who dare to challenge its increasingly dogmatic views and radical agenda.

I do not make these claims lightly. But, time and again, I see so much evidence of what I've just conveyed to you -- evidence that I've presented to you here on this website time and again.  And all this has left my Republican friends (and particularly GOP officeholders who take their oath of office seriously) frustrated and dismayed. Can you blame them?

What can we do about it?

Well, I'll tell you this much -- if the roles were reversed and our Democrat "friends" were the outsiders being treated as we are now, they wouldn't be civil about it; they wouldn't be mannerly; they wouldn't be genteel. They'd be raising holy hell -- "made as hell and not taking it anymore!"

Democrats have a knack for drama that Republicans (with the obvious exception of President Trump) seem to lack. Democrats act out. They paint with broad, strokes and bold hyperbole. They magnify, they amplify, they organize and they demonstrate. And they don't hesitate to take to the streets. In fact, they've shown that they can produce an angry, "spontaneous" crowd quicker than you can say impeach.

These are not ordinary times. The hour is late and the old rules of political combat will not work anymore -- not now, not while socialism and communism loom on the horizon, their specter all too real. We're now way beyond the point of formal resolutions, declarations or policy papers. Get it?

And the way I see it, perhaps the time has come for some stubborn, sustained disruption. For this may be the only way to gain the public's attention, galvanize the cause and convince those in power that we are indeed deadly serious about saving our state and our nation.

Maybe when any Republican is disrespected or mistreated at a session of the state legislature in Trenton, all of the GOP members of that body should simply get up and walk out in protest.

"We're mad as hell and we're not gonna take it anymore!"

Maybe we need more actions like that -- active defiance in the face of the arrogance of power.

Mikie Sherrill promised affordability. What she's delivered is a bloated state budget, runaway, pork barrel spending, lost jobs and wages and higher fees and taxes. Maybe it's time for demonstrations in towns and cities all over the state that dramatize the justifiable sense of disappointment (at the very least) that ordinary citizens should be feeling. 

Maybe a mobilized march on Trenton needs to be organized. A big one a few decades ago derailed a major tax hike and sent the incumbent governor into a tailspin from which he never recovered, ultimately producing one of our finest leaders ever -- Tom Kean. 

Maybe we need to begin to train a new infantry of activists -- what I'll call a GOP StreetCorps -- to be ready to demonstrate the power of our convictions, live and in person on quick notice, sorta like the opposition truth squads that once followed political candidates. The difference here would be that the StreetCorps would be in-your-face and operative year round -- a kinda nimble, menacing, swarm of GOP disciples.

Maybe, right now, we could even use a bit of performance art to get the message across. Does that sound somewhat outside-the-box to you? Good! Because such a non-traditional approach to what we face is exactly what we need -- and we need it without delay.

Not that what I'm suggesting will suddenly and immediately turn the tide for us. It won't. But it will alert those that need to be alerted. And it will sound the alarm -- an alarm that will hopefully mobilize voters for a big statewide GOP victory at the ballot box next year. 

Still, this will happen only if we act imaginatively and daringly now!

Bottom line: I'm afraid far too many of my Garden State Republican friends have turned the other cheek for far too long. This is Joizee -- and this is a street fight, make no mistake about it. 

So take the gloves off and let's disrupt, defy and derail this misguided train before it mows us all down!

In Which X Post Asks A VERY Astute Question!

June 10, 1944. Normandy. Those US soldiers were there fighting Nazi occupiers. Did God not hear their prayers, @pontifex? Was that military chaplain's mass invalid?

What are you even saying here? https://t.co/iIiNS6xWAA pic.twitter.com/F8l7X43QXi

— Rod Dreher (@roddreher) September 20, 2026

How Quickly Some Have Forgotten THIS!

 

It's Hard To Argue With These Figures!

 

2021: Libs Said 'Lock Fox Outta WH Press Pool'

Well look at this.

March, 2021. CNN's Brian Stelter does a segment on if President Biden should remove Fox News from the White House Press Pool.

Censorship for thee, just not for me. pic.twitter.com/cs56eS87EC

— MAZE (@mazemoore) September 19, 2026

Censorship for thee, but not for ME!

Forget The Polls For Now, Follow The Grassroots!

 

Trump Scores Strategic Win On Greenland!

When you look at Greenland from the top of the world and the Arctic Circle, you can see how critical it is. I've been to the Arctic and to Greenland and I can attest to this. 

Remember when everyone laughed when Trump expressed that he wanted to buy Greenland? Remember how people who have known Trump for years (Bill O'Reilly, for example) stated that Trump was going for the home run and that he would put Denmark back on their heels. Remember how the left laughed at all this?

Well, well . . . .

The White House has officially announced that the U.S. has signed an agreement that makes Denmark the permanent location for the United States Military in Greenland in perpetuity - protecting our backside and cutting out Russia and China from trying to set up bases there or even occupy the country, which they have been wanting to do for decades.

More national security. More wins for the America! Will President Trump get appropriate credit for all this? Don't hold your breath -- BUT, be sure to vote Republican in this upcoming election!

Yes, These Famous Stars Are ALL Still Alive!