New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has no interest in making nice with fellow Republican Sen. Rand Paul.
The two have been publicly sparring over the past week, after Christie labeled the libertarian approach to foreign policy that Paul espouses “dangerous” in a speech last week.
On Wednesday, Paul extended an olive branch.
“I think with Gov. Christie it’s gotten a little too personal, so we’re ready to kiss and make-up,” he said on Fox News.
“I’m inviting him for a beer anytime he would like to come down and sit down at the pub right around the corner from the Senate,” Paul added.
But the New Jersey governor was not having it.
“I’m running for re-election in New Jersey. I don’t really have time for that at the moment,” Christie said Wednesday evening on New Jersey 101.5 FM, The Star Ledger Reported. “If I find myself in Washington, I’ll certainly look him up, but I don’t suspect I’ll be there anytime soon.”
Christie reportedly tried to dismiss the so-called feud as a minor event, but called Paul’s comments “juvenile.”
“I don’t know why Senator Paul is so out of whack about this. At the end of the day I never called him any names, yet he called me names. I didn’t use any childish type phrases like gimme, gimme, gimme, he did. I just have to assume from that that he’s just trying to get attention. That’s fine,” Christie said. “He’s not the first politician who’s used me to try to get attention in the national media and I’m sure he won’t be the last.”