New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie thinks Secretary of State John Kerry would serve the country best by keeping his mouth shut.
The governor reacted to Kerry’s recent remarks that a previous terrorist attack on Charlie Hebdo, a French satirical publication, carried some “legitimacy” or “rationale” that the newest mass killings did not.
“He needs to get some sleep and shut up,” Christie told Fox News. “That’s disgraceful. For the secretary of state of the United States to stand up and say that there’s some rationale for what happened in January? These are the kind of weak, mixed signals that the administration sends that helps to really make the American people think that there’s no one watching the store and there isn’t.”
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Christie, who ranks sixth in the Washington Examiner‘s GOP presidential power rankings, previously gained attention for telling a heckler to “sit down and shut up.” The governor also chastised President Obama for criticizing Republicans.
“The president lives in a fantasy world,” he said. “He sees the world as he wishes it were, rather than the way it is. This is the same guy who Thursday said that [the Islamic State] was contained. And then Friday we had the attacks in Paris. We’ve also had the attacks in Lebanon. ISIS is not contained, ISIS is not a regional threat. ISIS is now a global threat.”
Christie ranks tenth among the Republican presidential candidates in RealClearPolitics’ average of national polls.
