February 25th, 2011
While the rest of Republican America is swooning for Chris Christie, Mark Levin isn’t buying it. Levin seems not to consider Christie a viable presidential candidate, which is perfectly sensible, since Christie isn’t going to run. But Levin’s discounting of Christie doesn’t seem to be based on political horserace calculations. Here are the clips from Galley Friend A.W.:
January 14: “The new GOP presidential hope? Are you kidding?”
February 16: “[H]e refuses to address issues that expose his weaknesses to conservatives.”
February 17: “For all the loud bravado, on this hugely important [Obamacare] issue he’s a wimp. . . . It’s fiscally irresponsible for Christie to sit on his butt and do nothing. Is this what they mean by frank talk? Maybe his supporters inside the beltway can help us better understand while they’re touting him for president.”
It’s unclear if Levin’s appraisal of Christie as an “irresponsible wimp” is the result of Christie not coming onto his show or some deviationist thinking concerning the 2010 Delaware Senate race.
Mel February 27, 2011 at 12:33 pm
Levin has clearly said, and talked about in his email exchanges on the topic with Anne Coulter, that Christie is not his candidate because he is not: conservative, queasily greenie, pro-amnesty, sat a Islamist on the bench, and has not joined in any protest of Obamacare.