Agreed on all 5 points, and with me, conservatives need to get their heads out of their asses on this one. Although I am not endorsing Christie (Assuming he really had no involvement in the bridge fiasco) he doesn't play social politics like some of the other more right leaning candidates do, and to me that's a good thing, and why I think independents break for him. Don't know how that will play out in the primaries though, but we'll see. I do like that he seems to have it together fiscally, and isn't afraid to take on big unions, and can articulate (Albeit rather bluntly) conservative fiscal principles in a way that lay people seem to get. Another thing I like is that this guy over any other (R) will most definitely bring it to Hillary in a presidential election.
Three biggest things concerning Americans are, Debt, Economy, and Democare. However, the Dems will make the or try really, really hard to make the issues, Immigration, war on women, and general inequality issues. The low information voters will eat it up, but I'm hoping not enough. Christie seems to be the best to handle those issues, whereas guys like Cruz, Rubio, and Paul seem like they'd fall into the dems trap.
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