(As Lou Reed would have said, we're he still with us, “he's done”.)
If Chris Christie still has thoughts of becoming president he should, perhaps, think twice after the reception his “investigation” into himself has gotten from the media. See the headlines collected here. Before Christie's fall from grace there was a widespread meme to the effect that he was a media darling, but you have to wonder whether his popularity was confined to the circle jerkers in the Beltway, and that the media frontliners may have had a different view. After all, they saw what an asshole he is on a daily basis.
There is a downside to Christie's demise, and believe me, he is dead. We non Beltway pundits are at a loss. Ask me who I think the next Republican candidate will be and all I can say is that it has to be someone, because they will, no doubt, hold a convention, and someone has to win it. But right now, there is not a single potential candidate on the horizon that even knows how to – Romney-like- pretend that he's sane. We have come to a bizarre place when Rand Paul, of all people, looks to have a chance to get the nomination.
Alas, we Democrats have problems of our own, facing as we do the dismal prospect of a Clinton coronation. No good will come of four to eight more years of a Wall Street friendly Democratic administration. It may very well be that a nation “conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal” cannot “long endure”. The prospects don't look good, and the fact that Christie will not be the one leading us toward oligarchy is cold comfort indeed.
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