Opinion

Will Christie run for Prez? America could do worse

The Issue: Whether New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie should join the 2012 presidential race.

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Thanks for writing the editorial “Run, Chris, Run?” (Sept. 26).

I’m a conservative Republican and totally agree that the current field of candidates for the GOP presidential nomination is not very exciting.

I hope The Post’s editorial and urging by others, particularly from GOP bigwigs, will cause New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie to seriously reconsider his previous position about running.

Bruce Thevenin

Chesterton, Ind.

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Before Christie makes his decision, I hope he talks to the four living former presidents.

Three of them, Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, went from their respective statehouse to the White House. Only George H. W. Bush had any international experience before serving as vice president and then commander-in-chief.

You can’t put a price tag on the former presidents’ knowledge and experience, but there will be a heavy price to pay for every Republican candidate whose inexperience colors his or her ideas and campaigns.

As good a presidential candidate as Christie might be on paper today, he is no exception to this rule.

Denny Freidenrich

Laguna Beach, Calif.

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Now the Republicans are crazy about Christie — a mean-spirited politician who goes after the teachers, scolds NJ citizens when questioned, skips on a needed Hudson River tunnel and doesn’t want gay voters to marry.

Gee, he’s just another compassionate conservative.

Paul Grimaldi

Yonkers

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NJ residents have been overtaxed, over-regulated and burdened by a liberals-gone-wild state Supreme Court.

Christie, who has done an excellent job so far, will need one more term to finish what he had started.

You can’t have him, because we still need him.

Diane McVey

Scotch Plains, NJ

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What does it do for the Republican Party when “the powers that be” beg Christie to run for president and he says no?

It just shows that the Republicans have no confidence in their candidates.

E. Drossman

Manhattan

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Do Americans need any more proof that Christie should run after his speech Tuesday night at the Reagan Library?

Heed our advice: Run, Chris. Run.

T. DeJulio

New Rochelle

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Christie already has three strikes against him.

He comes from a Northeast state, and his party has not nominated a Northeast resident since Dwight Eisenhower in 1956.

He is a Catholic in a party that has never come close to nominating a Catholic for the presidency.

Finally, he is extremely overweight in a party that has not nominated a fat candidate since William Taft in 1908.

Dennis Middlebrooks

Brooklyn

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History is littered with examples of leaders reluctantly taking their positions because their country needed them.

Christie, your country needs you.

B. Roberts

Brielle, NJ