Chris Christie's Presidential strategy - get people who don't normally vote Republican to vote Republican

[Janelle2002 3,865]

But did he do it because it was right or for political reason?

Purely political. He needed a way to force the Southern states to join the north. Think of how much the south stood to loose without slaves. Their whole economy was almost based off of cotton, which was done by slaves, yes?

It did not outlaw slavery, it only applied to rebellious states, and again, how could he force states to give up their slaves that he wasn't the president of? He had no control of the south.

[The Nature Boy 4,224]

But did he do it because it was right or for political reason?

both He was dead set agianst slavery

[xebec 195]

You mean the same people who had slaves? Like our lovely Thomas Jefferson, Mr. Democratic Republican who kept a nice little slave on the side to father his children while he still had kids with his wife.

Okay. Lincoln so called fought for slaves although he had slaves? The Emancipation Proclamation was a strategy to force rebellious Southern states to join the North it had nothing to do with freeing slaves . Southern states that were not rebellious got to keep their slaves. This move was done to attempt to economically weaken the Southern States. Most of the freedoms of slaves took place because they needed these fighters in the war, not because they thought of them as equal human beings.

To be honest, I don't trust either side.

2016 my vote is going to the Green Chili Pepper Party of the Liberal, Conservative, South Northern Party. I like this group.

Where do you get these little historical gems?

Jefferson was a Republican? The party didn't exist during his lifetime.

Jefferson fathered children with Sally Hemmings while his wife was alive? Martha Jefferson died when Sally was nine. Jefferson's relationship with Hemmings apparently didn't begin until five years later. (Or are you saying that widows/widowers are engaged in moral turpitude if they have children before the children of their previous marriage are dead?)

And Lincoln definitely didn't own slaves.

[Sarah Elle-Même 660]

already got one..It's called libertarians

How does a platform of social darwinist sociopathy belong to a party "for the people"

[Janelle2002 3,865]

Where do you get these little historical gems?

Jefferson was a Republican? The party didn't exist during his lifetime.

Jefferson fathered children with Sally Hemmings while his wife was alive? Martha Jefferson died when Sally was nine. Jefferson's relationship with Hemmings apparently didn't begin until five years later. (Or are you saying that widows/widowers are engaged in moral turpitude if they have children before the children of their previous marriage are dead?)

And Lincoln definitely didn't own slaves.

Sarah "Sally" Hemings (c. 1773 – 1835) was an enslaved woman of mixed race owned by President Thomas Jefferson through his wife's inheritance. The youngest of six siblings by the planter John Wayles and his slave Betty Hemings, Hemings was therefore a half-sister of Jefferson's wife, Martha Wayles Skelton.^[1] The Hemings along with all of Wayles' slaves were inherited by the Jeffersons a year after their marriage and were taken to Monticello.

[ready4ONE 5,400]

Sarah "Sally" Hemings (c. 1773 – 1835) was an enslaved woman of mixed race owned by President Thomas Jefferson through his wife's inheritance. The youngest of six siblings by the planter John Wayles and his slave Betty Hemings, Hemings was therefore a half-sister of Jefferson's wife, Martha Wayles Skelton.^[1] The Hemings along with all of Wayles' slaves were inherited by the Jeffersons a year after their marriage and were taken to Monticello.

According to the link from your own post, as well as historical reality, Martha died when Sarah was 9 years old.

[Janelle2002 3,865]

According to the link from your own post, as well as historical reality, Martha died when Sarah was 9 years old.

You said he had no slaves which he clearly inherited. And the woman he had kids with was a slave, yes?

[Pooky 3,840]

I think this strategy is really his only possible strategy. He can't win the Tea Party core of primary voters. The only other path left is through voters who don't normally vote Republican but might.

Ken Cuccinelli going down in flames in Virginia might just be the best thing to happen to Chris Christie's chances of winning the Republican nomination for 2016.

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

[Merle 458]

with brilliant thinking like christie's, the republican party is doomed.

And the whole country is doomed if we keep going down the road to bankruptcy we are on.