I don't disagree, which is why I no longer consider myself a republican. In a related story:Dave2 wrote:Holder isn't the source... The source is people (of any party) being in power who overly value control.The Annoyed Man wrote:This sewage is not going to stop until you stop up its source. That means getting Holder out of office by any means, including political dirty tricks (a democrat specialty) if necessary.
Chris Christie: Rand Paul ‘dangerous’
http://www.politico.com/story/2013/07/c ... 94789.html
Christie is going to run, and he's got a shot to get the nomination because the squishy middle and the left of the republican party like his politics.New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is ripping libertarians — including Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) — for challenging government surveillance programs and failing to understand the dangers of terrorism.
“This strain of libertarianism that’s going through parties right now and making big headlines I think is a very dangerous thought,” the New Jersey GOP governor said on Thursday at a Republican governors forum in Aspen, Colo. “You can name any number of people and (Paul is) one of them.”
“These esoteric, intellectual debates — I want them to come to New Jersey and sit across from the widows and the orphans and have that conversation. And they won’t, because that’s a much tougher conversation to have,” Christie said.
“The next attack that comes, that kills thousands of Americans as a result, people are going to be looking back on the people having this intellectual debate and wondering whether they put …” Christie said before trailing off.
Paul’s office shot back on Friday, saying Christie may need a “new dictionary.”
“If Gov. Christie believes the constitutional rights and the privacy of all Americans is ‘esoteric’, he either needs a new dictionary, or he needs to talk to more Americans, because a great number of them are concerned about the dramatic overreach of our government in recent years,” Doug Stafford, a senior adviser to Paul, said in a statement to POLITICO. “Defending America and fighting terrorism is the concern of all Americans, especially Sen. Paul. But it can and must be done in keeping with our Constitution and while protecting the freedoms that make America exceptional.”