Chris Christie on top? It wasn’t just the former governor of New Jersey calling Vivek Ramaswamy “the most obnoxious blowhard in America”—an insult that should possibly be doled out more frequently to politicians. Christie was on fire last night on the GOP debate stage in Alabama.
“You can’t say he was good on trade,” he told former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley after she praised that part of Trump’s economic record. “All he did was impose tariffs, which raise the prices for every American.” (More on that from Reason’s Eric Boehm.)
After moderator Megyn Kelly asked a question about child gender transitions, Christie replied with a strong parental rights argument.
“I get to make the decisions about my children, not anyone else,” said Christie. “Every once in awhile, parents are going to make decisions we disagree with,” he admitted, “but the minute you start to take those rights away from parents, you don’t know that slippery slope, what rights are going to be taken away next.” Involving the state in family matters should not be taken lightly—an argument Christie articulated well, even as his opponents on stage went for simpler red-meat…
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