to lose his own state the way mittens is going to.

The Republicans will never forget this Christie and Sandy thing, even if Romney wins.
But especially if Romney loses, ESPECIALLY... he will be blamed by them almost without a doubt.

politics, he's eventually going to have to switch parties, he's committed a mortal sin to the republicans. Rupert Murdoch is already threatening him and he'll get much of the blame from the extremists when Romney loses.

Among some on the left. He has made some gigantic and massive strides to some.

He will have to become an independent eventually.The Repub party won't want him. Hey, Teddy Roosevelt turned independent and made up his own party when he ran against Taft and Wilson.
The real issue is that Repubs have driven out northeastern Repubs a long time ago and Christie is one of the few left of national stature.

If Christie has had a revelation and tone down to become a more cooperative politician who attempts to work through differences before taking a firm stance, Christie will instantly become acceptable to many people that would not vote for him now on the national stage and become a formidable politician because of that. If Christie has indeed had a life changing revelation that moderates and broadens him, I don't see a democrat now on the national stage that can compete with Christie.

If he wants to play in the Repub's system, he will simply have to move very far right to win the primary. If he was smart, he would do the third party way to run for President. But I hope he stays a Repub as that would be better for us.

He knows when it's time to suspend partisanship and work with the President. 8 years of Dumbya made us think that all Republicans have forgotten this (or how to be competent in any way shape or form).

He wants to get re-elected as his near term future because he knows there is no way he can go national. I expect his forays as a surrogate took a toll and Hurricane Sandy sealed it. He also knows that no teabagger will win in NJ and too many Democrats are steeped in corruption, so the move to suddenly tack back hard to the middle early enough, will help his chances next year. He also knows the very vocal current mayor of Newark, who himself is a bully (from the "other side" of the political spectrum), is going to be a very formidable opponent because Cory Booker is as ruthless as he is AND is a young gun with alot of energy. Plus as a DLCer, Booker is a danger to moderate rethugs statewide (the "downside" being that he is black but that is not as much an issue as it would be in other locales).

Christie is a typical "moderate" rethuglican of the Mid-Atlantic area stripe and I expect his sampling of talking teathugger lingo was probably very uncomfortable.

His party tried it the teabagger way and it has been nothing but FAIL - at least in the NE and Mid-Atlantic. That may work in the south and in some parts of the inland west, but race after race, they are seeing it doesn't work in the most populated areas of this country.

Living where I do, I have seen all the press conferences during Sandy and Irene. I have to hand it to the guy, he's an effective leader when there is a disaster. I think he said 'this is what adults do' and 'now is not the time for politics' my husband and I both let out an OMG! I said that he just screwed himself with the Rs. He said, 'and what to my wondering eyes should appear..'
I think they will drop him like a hot potato. They hate the Dems and Obama too much to let this slide.

him on twitter said that. I got the tweet from a retweet from Roger Ebert. I was wrong to post that.