Our prayers might be answered: Christie to decide on 2012 bid.

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All this Hamlet-like behavior by Christie is really tiresome, not to mention that I'm running out of fat jokes.

Is he being indecisive? We have one article with only unnamed sources (from Newsmax). Other reports have popped up before, but it's always been something that happens sporadically in conservative publications. Weighed against Christie's claim that he would rather "kill himself," I think I'll go with the man's word.

With McCotter's withdrawal, the right-wing intelligentsia are grasping at straws. No surprise.

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Christie is basically a more economically-orientated version of Rudy Giuliani.

No way. I'm sure that the expectations for Christie are overblown, but Giuliani's status as a national hero running for President is unique in contemporary politics. Giuliani's stature was like that of a general returning from war - an Eisenhower, a William Henry Harrison, a Zachary Taylor. There is no other politician in either party who could do so well despite being so out of line with the base on basic, important issues.


(The comparison isn't a total bust, don't mistake me, but Giuliani's candidacy is really different from anything that we've seen.)

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To be clear. Jon Huntsman is practically irrelevant to this campaign, and anything written by his acolytes is likely to be so heavily biased that its connection to reality is loose and largely coincidental. Call me crazy

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To be clear. Jon Huntsman is practically irrelevant to this campaign, and anything written by his acolytes is likely to be so heavily biased that its connection to reality is loose and largely coincidental. Call me crazy

Crazy? No. Missing the big picture? Definitely. You can't dismiss the strategists' argument because she is a Huntsman adviser, especially when she has no agenda. Huntsman isn't exactly on Romney's tail in Florida.

Huntsman has repeatedly emphasized the importance of Florida to his campaign, so I wouldn't be so quick to say that she doesn't have an agenda. (Besides, anyone affiliated with a campaign has an agenda by definition - getting their candidate elected.)

If I seemed to be overstating the case slightly, that was intentional. I was parodying Huntsman's famous tweet regarding global warming.