# So, we should get used to saying "President Christie?" Yea or nay? **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [November 21, 2013, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-we-should-get-used-to-saying-president-christie-yea-or-nay/674448 "2013-11-21T17:12:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 1
**Author:** ![ILikeForeignLanguages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/bc8723/32.png) [@ILikeForeignLanguages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ILikeForeignLanguages)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2013, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-we-should-get-used-to-saying-president-christie-yea-or-nay/674448/1 "2013-11-21T17:12:47Z")
I was at a family party just recently and as the party was coming to an end, one of the last things to be brought up in discussion was politics. Just before he left to go back home, one of my family members commented that the 2016 election was currently predicted to be Chris Christie vs. Hillary Clinton, and, as it stands now, professionals say, Chris Christie would win. What our your thoughts on this? Like or dislike? I dislike it, personally. And the fact that Christie is not a conservative is not the sole reason I dislike it; I dislike it mostly because he has signed legislation as the governor of New Jersey that has infringed on people’s rights, and I take that as a huge red flag. You may not agree with the type of therapy he recently banned involving homosexuality, and you might even be glad he banned it, but that doesn’t mean he had any _right_\*\* to ban it, and I think this ban qualifies him as a possible future dictator, or, at the least, a path paver for a future dictator. I’m not jesting. Regardless of a politician’s political stance, be it liberal, conservative or moderate, the one thing they should always be evaluated by is their treatment of human rights track record. I know John McCain was not ultra-conservative either, but at least he hadn’t promoted any blatant human rights abuses back in 2008, so my family could comfortably and confidently cast their ballots for him, despite their more right-wing leanings. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-we-should-get-used-to-saying-president-christie-yea-or-nay/674448)._