“Compassionate Conservatism”: Chris Christie on addiction

Though I’m neither a conservative nor a Republican, I do wonder how men with ideas like these expressed by Chris Christie are getting ignored, or at least neglected, while the GOP’s blowhards are being lavished with attention. Christie’s discussions here of the humane sympathy that should accompany the pro-life ideal are commendable. I remember hearing George W. Bush declare and proclaim in the early 2000s about something he called “compassionate conservatism,” and though Dubya’s presidency was hardly marked by compassion, I think what Christie says here might be what Bush was referring to.

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