Why do people like Chris Christie?
 

I've never seen this guy say anything thoughtful and he always seems angry. Why is he so appealing to confused peopled like Kotter?

Charisma. Plus he looks like Jeff Garland.

He seems to tell it like it is. People want politicians to tell them the truth. But, the reality is that the people can't handle the truth.

eg. every politician will raise our taxes no matter how many times they promise to not raise our taxes.

Just to piss you off.

I couldn't tell you, a dumbass for sure if you ask me.

Kotter blows in the wind (I'm talking about his politics, not his hobbies). He blew from Clinton, to Bush, to Obama, and now to Christie. Right now, Christie is the cult of personality politician of the moment - and for good reason - personality he's got. I personally like a lot of the stuff he says. Kotter would hate it if that stuff came from the mouth of someone less charismatic. But since Christie can say it and still come across as affable, Kotter creams his shorts over it.

I think you answered your own question.

Takes on greedy public unions

People like him because most people are sheep who like youtube sensations and reality TV stars.

Christie became a youtube sensation when he called out that dumb bitch during that teachers union town hall meeting.

He comes off as straight forward, doesnt speak the party line if he disagrees with them. Says what he thinks, refreshing.
Seems to care about doing his job more than his political aspirations.

This. Rabid ideologues who do nothing but engage in disingenuous demogoguery and the politics of the lunatic fringe....don't understand that representative democracy requires consensus and compromise--working together for a common good. Instead, they insist on a narrow and rigid approach to government that renders it impotent. Their greed and myopia is only focused on themselves and if that screws over anyone else....then so be it. They are--the RWNJ dittoheads on the right, and the Moonbat bleeding hearts on the left. You know...the extremist whack jobs who post here far too often.

Whack jobs like that spooge gurgling closeted sausage-smoking pillowbitergot who masterbates to Ron Paul posters and the rantings of Lew Rockwell....the one who calls himself Taco John....

Used to love him, but he once said something nice about Obama or some other dem, so i now hate his guts/DC hard righter

Yep...moderation, consensus, compromise? WTH???

Lunatic fringe douchebags prefer dogma and gridlock over effective governance.....

No one takes you seriously.

Clinton
Bush II
Obama
Christie

It's easy to compromise when your only criteria for compromise is voting for whoever is popular at the moment. Some of us, though, actually have values.

Dogma and rigid ideological extemism is not the same as "values." The only values you seem to have is a naive and misguided faith that anarchy masquerading as "libertarianism" is a cogent and realistic approach managing our nation.