Sen. Rand Paul zinged New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie Tuesday night for allowing his administration to close a bridge in an apparent attempt to retaliate against a Democratic mayor who didn’t endorse Christie in the governor’s race.
Christie has been dogged by that scandal for several months now, but none of his presidential opponents raised it in the debates until Paul did.
Christie has just finished explaining that he would set up a no-fly zone in Syria and attack Russian planes that dared to enter that zone. Paul responded by saying that policy is a recipe for World War III.
“Well, I think if you’re in favor of World War III, I think you have your candidate,” he said. “My goodness, what we want in a leader is someone with judgment, not someone who is so reckless as to stand on the stage and say, yes … I’m going to shoot down Russia planes.”
“It’s having that kind of judgment, who you would appoint and how you would conduct affairs, that is incredibly important,” Paul continued. “I mean, I think when we think about the judgment of someone who might want World War III, we might think about someone who might shut down a bridge because they don’t like their friends,” he said as the crowd roared.
Christie didn’t take the bait, and said the Democrats are the ones who have been reckless in Syria.
“What reckless is is calling Assad a reformer,” he said. “That’s reckless, and the reckless people are the folks in the White House right now, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are the reckless people.”
