One Cheer--Two at the Most--for Candidate Christie? - Peter Robinson

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Once Christie's opponents began pointing out the thinness of his record as a conservative--he has bashed back the rate of growth of state spending, but the budget is still bigger than when he took office, and he has failed to enact structural reforms, improve schools, or, really, to do much of anything else at all--once this became understood, Christie's support in the tea party would drop sharply.  "He'd lose," my friend said, "and then he'd come back to New Jersey too damaged to be effective.  It would be the worst of both worlds."

This kind of last minute chair shuffling has to be unsettling to Republicans who feel they need to beat Barack Obama in 2012. Every camp has its own fantasy candidate and we've gone through 3 or 4 front runners at this point. and each camp is totally unsatisfied with the other's choices. This of course excepts Mitt Romney, who has no camp if Chris Christie ever entered the race.

This attempt to unseat Perry with a candidate who is not in the debates and has a spotty conservative record is somewhat desperate, as if to say none of that matters at all.