".....Christie criticized a “strain of libertarianism” coursing through both parties as a “very dangerous thought” more than a decade after the nation’s deadliest terrorist attacks claimed the lives of 3,000 Americans.
During a forum in Colorado Thursday, Christie was asked whether he meant Paul, a potential 2016 GOP presidential candidate.
“You can name any number of people and he's one of them," Christie said. "These esoteric, intellectual debates -- I want them to come to New Jersey and sit across from the widows and the orphans and have that conversation. And they won't, because that's a much tougher conversation to have."
Christie’s state suffered the second-highest casualties in the hijacked airplane attacks on New York and Washington. He also praised the policies Presidents George W. Bush and Obama used to fight terrorism.....
.....Paul tweeted that Christie “worries about the dangers of freedom. I worry about the danger of losing that freedom. Spying without warrants is unconstitutional.".......
......The exchange followed a fight earlier this week in Congress over the National Security Agency's collection of hundreds of millions of U.S. phone records. Libertarian-leaning conservatives and liberal Democrats sought to undo the NSA program because they contend is an affront to civil liberties.
The House narrowly defeated the attempt to restrict the surveillance, with some Republicans questioning whether their adversaries had forgotten the lessons of 2001.......
......Doug Stafford, a top adviser to Paul, said in a statement that if Christie "believes the constitutional rights and the privacy of all Americans is `esoteric,' he either needs a new dictionary, or he needs to talk to more Americans, because a great number of them are concerned about the dramatic overreach of our government in recent years."....."
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