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In a New Hampshire town hall meeting, Republican presidential candidate Gov. Chris Christie (N.J.) referred to Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton as “Secretary Happy Talk” and suggested she suspend campaigning over her recent ISIS comments.
“We had the woman who wants to succeed [Obama], who said in the debate here in New Hampshire Saturday night that as to ISIS we’re finally exactly where we want to be. Here’s what I suggest to Secretary Clinton: I suggest that she suspend campaigning, get on an airplane, fly to Paris and before Christmas meet with the families of the murdered victims in Paris and tell them we’re exactly where we want to be as to ISIS as they endure, not celebrate, endure Christmas this year without their loved ones. I want her to look them in the eye,” Christie said at a town hall meeting in New London, N.H.
“The fact is she is Secretary Happy Talk. That’s her new name, that’s all I am going to call her from now on is Secretary Happy Talk. The slogan for this administration should be, ‘do you believe me or your lying eyes?’” he added.
Christie also labeled Clinton a “hypocrite” due to her support for military intervention in Libya.
“If the Libya policy had worked out well, if we had a burgeoning vibrant democracy that replaced Moammar Gadhafi in Libya, she would be literally setting her hair on fire and running around the stage to get you to notice her policy was a success. Yet when it’s a failure she refuses to be accountable. See, she’s never been a governor because when something goes bad there’s nowhere else to point.”
Christie added that America “cannot afford” to put a U.S. senator from either party in the White House for the next four years.
“They don’t know how to take responsibility, they don’t know how to be held accountable because all they have to do is every once in a while vote. She is the worst example of it,” he said.
Christie said he knows how to beat Clinton, pointing to his support among African-Americans and Hispanics in New Jersey.
“I like my odds if I am on that stage next September against Hillary Rodham Clinton. I want you to remember one thing – these folks know because they are from New Jersey but you should know – 49.5 percent in 2009. In 2013, after governing as a conservative in New Jersey and doing these things for four years, 61 percent of the vote in a state that Barack Obama had gotten 59 percent the year before,” he said.
“I won the Hispanic vote – won it – 51 percent of the Hispanic vote in New Jersey; 22 percent of the African-American vote, up from 9 percent four years earlier, and 57 percent of the female vote against an 18-year female state senator. In the end, if you walk away from today with nothing else just remember this: I know how to win, and if we don’t win this election we won’t recognize this country in four years,” he added.
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