Christie, if he runs for re-election, will presumably be coy until that happens.
A huge part of the tea leaf reading will be about whether Christie does in fact run for reelection. If he runs for reelection, does he have to try position himself more to the center in order to win,
He'd have to move to the right to get closer to the center.
People who call Christie a conservative sometimes remind me of this scene in
The Sopranos. There are four New York mobsters sitting around a table, talking about Tony Soprano. When one of them disparages Tony, another defends him by say,
"Hey, he's a boss!" A third mobster, apparently the leader of the crew, sniffs,
"A boss? In Jersey he's a boss."Christie's a conservative? Yeah, in Jersey.
