Listen: Chris Christie Is ‘Thrilled’ People Ask Him To Run In 2012, He ‘Just Doesn’t Want To Do It’

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by Jon Bershad | 2:42 pm, May 9th, 2011

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This morning on Philadelphia’s 1210 WPHT, host Chris Stigall began his interview with Chris Christie by telling the New Jersey governor that he was an “unabashed fan.” While, Jersey liberals and, uh, teachers may disagree, plenty of conservatives share Stigall’s Christie-love and hope to see him on the ballot in 2012. Of course, there’s one main obstacle. Christie isn’t interested.

While Christie has only been in office since January of 2010, the presidential talk has been going for a while, sometimes stoked by the man himself. However, he’s also been clear that he doesn’t want to run. So eyebrows were raised when it came out that big Iowa donors were meeting with the Governor at the end of May to persuade him to run. However, while Christie will meet with them, he has no intention of changing his mind.

“I’m a kid from Jersey who has people asking him to run for president. I’m thrilled by it,” Christie said. “I just don’t want to do it.”

However, Christie promised to remain “a leader” in the Republican Party. He’s helped do this by hosting a number of potential candidates in New Jersey like Mitt Romney and Tim Pawlenty, saying he wants to “really get to know” a candidate before endorsing one. Still some won’t be satisfied until his name’s on the ballow. Stigall even tried to butter him up by comparing his reluctance to none other than George Washington, all however to no avail.

“I’m not there right now,” said Christie.

The full Christie interview begins around the 3:40 mark in the audio clip from CBS Philly below. The 2012 talk begins at 9:30.

Chris Christie, Chris Stigall, GOP contenders for 2012, Mitt Romney, Tim Pawlenty

http://www.swissarmyjew.com Keeva

Unless of course the campaign is all you can eat.
TampopoLoco

Why would he want to be associated with the craziness that is the GOP right now? He’s smart, he’ll wait til 2016 when the carnival show ends.
Tony the Fist

Like Christie’s blunt, plain-spoken style, but if he was ever POTUS, they would have to get Taft’s furniture out of storage.
BeckFinallyDemoted

Duh. He knows he can’t win in 2012.

He will wait.

Diet, and wait.
skyfet

Leave him alone for God sake, you have all the phonies (except Ron Paul) running anyway.
http://www.perceptionasreality.blogspot.com/ skoorbekim

Christie has Team Obama nervous…
bustin’ up those teacher’s unions in NJ is just what the country craves…
Paul G

I just can’t get on the Christie bandwagon. He’s said and done some good things…but he’s said and done some bad things.
He wasn’t mentioned, but he’s another repub Rush talked about today.
TampopoLoco

skoorbekim said:
Christie has Team Obama nervous…
bustin’ up those teacher’s unions in NJ is just what the country craves…

You think that after the week Obama had last week he’s going to sweat anything that the GOP does? Team Obama doesn’t sweat the little things.
Paul G

TampopoLoco said:
Why would he want to be associated with the craziness that is the GOP right now? He’s smart, he’ll wait til 2016 when the carnival show ends.

and if Tamponpoloco likes him….now I REALLY don’t like him. THAT is what Rush talked about.
http://www.perceptionasreality.blogspot.com/ skoorbekim

TampopoLoco said:
You think that after the week Obama had last week he’s going to sweat anything that the GOP does? Team Obama doesn’t sweat the little things.

polling at 51%…
Team Obama is sweating Billion Dollar bullets…
Hispanics are deserting him fast…
get ready for the big empty El Paso speech…
RhapsodyinBlue

He wouldn’t win re-election in New Jersey right now and he hasn’t made Jersey’s unemployment figures any better. But please, run Christie, run
http://www.perceptionasreality.blogspot.com/ skoorbekim

Paul G said:
and if Tamponpoloco likes him….now I REALLY don’t like him. THAT is what Rush talked about.

as much as I lile CChristie… there is something foreboding about him… can’t quite identify it yet…
Paul G

skoorbekim said:
as much as I lile CChristie… there is something foreboding about him… can’t quite identify it yet…

Yea..Exactly. I can’t quite identify it yet either…….
Paul G

Paul G said:
Yea..Exactly. I can’t quite identify it yet either…….

Except for Coulter, I haven’t seen or heard ANY other conservative wanting him to run.
lobodons

Someone has some serious skeletons in the closet.
TampopoLoco

skoorbekim said:
polling at 51%…
Team Obama is sweating Billion Dollar bullets…
Hispanics are deserting him fast…
get ready for the big empty El Paso speech…

You’re delusional.
http://www.perceptionasreality.blogspot.com/ skoorbekim

TampopoLoco said:
You’re delusional.

I stated four facts:
polling at 51%
raising a $B
Hispanic support of Obama down
Obama speech tomorrow…
TampopoLoco

Paul G said:
and if Tamponpoloco likes him….now I REALLY don’t like him. THAT is what Rush talked about.

Actually i do like him and Ron Paul. I like Mitch Daniels too. But the current GOP Carnival freakshow? Please just take it all away.
Sean68

Keeva said:
Unless of course the campaign is all you can eat.

I think this is a pretty good indication of what the campaign against Christie would look like. Good thing he’s not running.
http://www.swissarmyjew.com Keeva

Sean68 said:
I think this is a pretty good indication of what the campaign against Christie would look like.

Not really, That is the humorous point. The real issue with Christie is that he is, at the end of the day, a rude, belligerent, bellicose bully who shouts his way through whatever. All of his everything has not really done much for the economy of New Jersey. Sure, he went after the teachers. Thus the bully thing – why not go after the entrenched bureaucrats? Oh, right. They have the actual power to make him look very bad. NJ is still the highest taxed state and still has issues balancing their budget. So what is it that makes him so great besides going after teachers?

Same for Cuomo in New York. Another bellicose bully who just yells and shouts. Any progress for the Empire State? Nope. Still just as bad as before and before that.

It is both sides. Somehow the 2 parties have managed to remove any scent of intellectualism from themselves and are now both all about who is rudest, loudest and most offensive in general. Loudmouth ideologues who run as absolutists and then when they win, find out is doesn’t work that way.

I have never been happier or prouder to be No Party Affiliation.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Zia-Shawan/1037824135 Zia Shawan

Governosoras to the rescue!!!!
Sean68

Keeva said:
Not really, That is the humorous point. The real issue with Christie is that he is, at the end of the day, a rude, belligerent, bellicose bully who shouts his way through whatever. All of his everything has not really done much for the economy of New Jersey. Sure, he went after the teachers. Thus the bully thing – why not go after the entrenched bureaucrats? Oh, right. They have the actual power to make him look very bad. NJ is still the highest taxed state and still has issues balancing their budget. So what is it that makes him so great besides going after teachers?

Same for Cuomo in New York. Another bellicose bully who just yells and shouts. Any progress for the Empire State? Nope. Still just as bad as before and before that.

It is both sides. Somehow the 2 parties have managed to remove any scent of intellectualism from themselves and are now both all about who is rudest, loudest and most offensive in general. Loudmouth ideologues who run as absolutists and then when they win, find out is doesn’t work that way.

I have never been happier or prouder to be No Party Affiliation.

I think the idea that he’s a bully would also be a ripe angle for exploitation. By the way, I have no party affiliation either. I am pro-choice, single-payer healthcare, pro-gay-marriage, pro-decriminalization of all drugs, alternate sentencing for non-violent offenders, pro-safety net for vulnerable citizens, in favor of raising taxes on the rich, and in favor of sensible gun control legislation. However, these days I tend to be a one-issue voter: immigration. Because while the third-world invasion helps Democrats and Republicans in the short run, it hurts the country in the long run. To such an extent, it’s tantamount to treason.
Sean68

Sean68 said:
I think the idea that he’s a bully would also be a ripe angle for exploitation. By the way, I have no party affiliation either. I am pro-choice, single-payer healthcare, pro-gay-marriage, pro-decriminalization of all drugs, alternate sentencing for non-violent offenders, pro-safety net for vulnerable citizens, in favor of raising taxes on the rich, and in favor of sensible gun control legislation. However, these days I tend to be a one-issue voter: immigration. Because while the third-world invasion helps Democrats and Republicans in the short run, it hurts the country in the long run. To such an extent, it’s tantamount to treason.

Let me clarify real quickly: it helps Republicans with big business pals who think cheap labor is a good in and of itself.
RichS

TampopoLoco said:
You think that after the week Obama had last week he’s going to sweat anything that the GOP does? Team Obama doesn’t sweat the little things.

I’m sure someone in President Bush’s (senior) camp said the same thing after the first Gulf War.
RichS

RhapsodyinBlue said:
He wouldn’t win re-election in New Jersey right now and he hasn’t made Jersey’s unemployment figures any better. But please, run Christie, run

His job approval rating is 51%, same as President Obama’s.