Nichols writes: "The usually unapologetic Christie recognizes the threat - in his home state and nationally - that is posed by the suggestion that his office engaged in the politics of retribution."
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie. (photo: Carlo Allegri/Reuters)
09 January 14
espite the fantasies of the pundits and political operatives who imagine Chris Christie as some kind of moderate, he is more than sufficiently conservative to secure the Republican presidential nomination.
By most reasonable measures, Christie is a strikingly consistent social and economic conservative.
So it is not ideology that is most likely to trip up Christie in the race for the Republican presidential nomination.
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