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Originally Posted by PiKA2001
He is viable candidate, in fact if he was running for the Presidential nom I think he would be in the top three right now but that doesn't necessarily mean he'd cinch it. While Repubs love the guy you have to take into consideration that Christie is a relative unknown to middle America. So then why didn't he run?
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I think he's prepping to run in 2016, and assuming none of the shitbox GOP contenders will beat Obama in this go-round - leaving his post as Governor after a year and some odd months would have been pretty rough. The VP slot gives him an "out" to that ("called to higher office"), but I'm not sure it's a good one.
In fact, it's my opinion that the GOP really sort of discouraged some of the best candidates from entering the arena seriously, so that they could spend some more time developing a coherent modern platform (or, y'know, undercutting Democrats - same thing really) and allowing the economy to bottom, then eventually taking credit for the reversal.