Christie Leads Attack On Obama At Romey Fundraiser

Governor Chris Christie came out swinging against President Barack Obama at a Mitt Romney fundraiser in Woodbridge last night.

Two weeks after Christie and Obama appeared laughing together during a tour of the World Trade Center site in lower Manhattan, Christie returned to campaign mode during the fundraiser which brought in an estimated $1.7million reports the Star Ledger.

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"He’s now running a campaign based on pessimism and cynicism and division. He doesn’t have a coherent message about America’s future," Christie said. "All he says on the little sign on the front of his podium is ‘Forward.’ ... No, what this is is backward."

Christie was also complimentary of Romney and said that New Jersey, in being early to pick the former Massachusetts Governor as the GOP's Presidential nominee was "right for our party (and) right for America."

Romney, still said to have Christie on his list of possible running mates,  was hoping for a Christie moment on stage, remembering an appearance in New Hampshire in which Christie took on a heckler. "That man really is something, you know that?" Romney said of the governor. "I was hoping somebody in here would start to heckle him so I could watch him go to town. But you know better, don’t you?"

State Democrats and other groups protested against the Republicans outside the hotel. Assemblyman John Wisniewski, chairman of the state Democratic Committee, and Brian Geoffroy, president of the Woodbridge Education Association, brought teachers in to  hold signs with slogans like, "Romney-Christie Economics: Less $ for Schools. More Tax Cuts for the Rich."