Why Chris Christie should not run -- the media just want someone else to tear down

Posted on Saturday, October 01, 2011 at 07:45 PM

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Chris Christie is coming under intense pressure to throw his hat in the ring for the 2012 presidential race.

The New York Times is reporting that a high- level gathering of Christie aides are meeting this weekend to plan a strategy.

The Times reports that those pushing Christie to run include the media mogul Rupert Murdoch, former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, Nancy Reagan and the conservative columnist William Kristol.

To which I say don't run Chris.

Like all the other candidates before like Michele Bachmann and Rick Perry in particular, the media is trying to lure you in in order to start tearing you down.

The media has the attention span of a nano-second and with Perry foundering they are distraught at the idea that they will spend the next year covering the bland Romney and the buttoned down version of Obama.

Christie isn't bland, he's big bluff and controversial, in other words a media man's delight.

He screams, he hollers, he interjects. great stuff for media coverage.

But reality bites.

Christie has left it too late. He is unexposed with less than two years on the national stage.

He is not ready for prime time yet-- and he knows it deep down.

But it is highly flattering when major moguls and legendary GOP types are coming knocking on your door.

But he should remember he's only 49 with a lot of politics ahead of him.

He should resist the poisoned apple and stay where he is.

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conorsmom | Oct 02, 2011, 02:01 PM EDT

Mr. Roberts- Christie should stay in the state that he represents and stop running around the country acting the part of a candidate. He might be ripped apart by the media, but if he is it will be because he is a loud mouth blowhard who says a lot but doesn't do a lot. He is a very wealthy elietest who could care less about the middle class of NJ.

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Nicomax | Oct 02, 2011, 12:00 PM EDT

If you are going to be a 'front man' then you need a Darth Vader right behind you. None did it better than W and Cheney. BHO has no such person, nor did Bill Clinton, but both Clinton's needed no such figure.

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2BorNot2B | Oct 01, 2011, 08:52 PM EDT

Christie, after two scant years on the national stage and not much public exposure not ready for prime time yet, you say? I wonder if you gave in to similar misgivings in the case of the sock-puppet-in-chief now fumbling through the presidency. -- How much experience, exposure, and known qualifications did that guy present to those who for their own shady purposes decided to anoint him? -- Ah, that's right... he didn't need any because he was destined to be only 'a front man' -- They knew the sheeple who are wont to have the attention span of a gnat, who are distracted by meaningless entertainment, and who finally voted him in would be dazzled by the 'charisma,' the phony attributes, and the smoke and mirrors the MSM concocted and wrapped him with. We now have the consequence of their stupidity. -- As for Christie... as unexposed as he is, he could run rings around his own ample girth, and around the inept-one's flaccid arse in the governing effectivity and decision-making depts.

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2BorNot2B | Oct 01, 2011, 08:39 PM EDT

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eiriamach | Oct 01, 2011, 08:19 PM EDT

He should "stay where he is"??? Why would you wish more suffering on the nearly 9 million people of New Jersey? What do you have against New Jerseyites? Let him resign the governorship, run for POTUS or VEEP, and let the media dogs have at him! He'd get a taste of what he's done to the schools, colleges, unions and state workers. Not that he'd learn anything from the experience. People that full of themselves do not learn from experience-- they already know all they want to know.

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