Very interesting – from the AP:
Some of Iowa’s top Republican campaign contributors, unhappy with their choices in the developing presidential field, are venturing to New Jersey in hopes they can persuade first-term Gov. Chris Christie to run. The entreaty is the latest sign of dissatisfaction within the GOP over the crop of candidates competing for the chance to run against President Barack Obama in 2012.
Bruce Rastetter, an Iowa energy company executive, and a half-dozen other prominent Iowa GOP donors sought the meeting with Christie, the governor’s chief political adviser, Mike DuHaime, told The Associated Press. The get-together is set for the governor’s mansion in Princeton, N.J., on May 31…
We’ll see how this plays out – Christie has been pretty firm in his “heck no” statements, but its hard to stay a wall flower when the dance is really heating up. These are serious players who can assist greatly in building the grass-roots effort he’d need to compete in Iowa…but if Christie wants to do it, he’ll have to move fairly quickly. Iowans don’t seem to like being kept waiting forever.
Christie remains one of our strongest potential candidates for 2012 – just in the fact that Obama would have to fight hard to keep New Jersey highly commends Christie (and, of course, Christie could just beat him there – and that would be close to “game over” for Obama; not as devastating as losing Pennsylvania, but close). With Christie having taken on the Ruling Class in a big way, and come out a winner, people will be enthused about him…and his no-nonsense, take-no-prisoners style will appeal to those Americans disgusted with politics as usual.
It was a New Jersey governor – Woodrow Wilson – who became President and really got the Big Government ball rolling…perhaps it will be another New Jersey governor become President who will start to undo it?
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