Soon to be the new leader in Republican Polls

May not even have to wait for next Summer.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0911/64326.html

I think he will run. At least I hope so. Don't knowe if I'd vote for his but what an improvement in the quality of debagte in the Republicna field. Well the Republican powers that be will push/force him to run? It's better then watching the Republican party Presidential candidates turn this election into a joke fest. 

If /when he announces, he goes right to the top. And he is completley different then any GOP hopeful we've seen this year.

#1. His personality and ego go way beyond what 'The Donald' or Perry have. He is in fact a 'bully'. Which also makes him an ass a lot of the time. The difference being Christie is NOT locked into an ideology of us vs. them or just promoting some book or himself. He IS a Republican but he actually considers policy.

#2. You may not agree with him but he actually KNOWS politics and even more important - policy. And his personality is such that even if he doesn't know it, he still dominates the conversation. He is the 'Teddy Roosevelt' of our times. And something this Country actually needs. Obama has been trying that the last couple of weeks, doing almost the same thing. Almost. But close only counts in Horse Shoes and hand grenades - and thermo nuclear devices. Christie doesn't have to 'change course' to do this - he IS that.
For this reason alone, Obama should be very scared.

#3. Sorry tea baggers. Christie will NOT put up with your bs. And he doesn't have to. He will attract rank and file GOP, the RINOs, the Blue Dog Dems and the majority  of the Independents out there. The actual Tea Party has been taken over by social conservatives (Bachmann, Perry, Cain) and Christie is a fiscal conservative but could care less about social conservativism. This is also what the powers that be in the GOP want.  A way to seperate themselves from the extremists conservatives.

And THIS is the reason that if/when he announces, Obama will be a one term President.

The tea party has become too extreme. They don't represent what the average American wants.
(See Palin, Bachmann, Cain)

Perry was just to slow in the debates. People DO want someone that sounds like they know what they are talking about. On the stump, Perry did. On live TV? What a clod.

Romney would have a real hard time getting the nomination because of the Christian Conservatives in the South. If he did get the nomination, he would have a hard time against Obama because of Romneycare.

Christie brings a dominant personality and knowledge. He has a little nepotism problem but nothing too major and he has some bad baggage from some of the policies in New Jersey. Nowhere near the bad baggage that Obama has. So he can beat Obama and reduce the power of the extreme right/tea party to pre 2010 election.

In other words the GOP can go back to being about fiscal conservativism. It's going to get ugly and let me repeat that. IT'S GOING TO GET UGLY! The social conservatives have gotten almost too much of a foothold on the GOP but if anyone can pull it off, it's Christie.

And if he decides not to run?

Then 'almost' will win over 'too extreme'.

As a Nation, we don't want the 'cure' (cut everything') to kill us as more and more of us need something.

Obama and the Democrats may not be able to 'deliver' Hope but thinking there is a possibility is better then having the Republicans 'cut' it off.