Chris Christie 2012: Anonymous Sources Keeping Candidacy Chit-Chat Constant

Even after two days in which New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) stressed that he would not be running for president, the Christie-candidacy-to-be story is a zombie that refuses to die. Today, the New York Post is running an "exclusive" story titled "Christie seriously considering presidential bid after GOP prodding." Which sounds kind of kinky! But what's keeping this story aloft? Basically, a bunch of anonymous "sources familiar with Christie’s thinking."

What these sources say is that the show of support Christie received at his appearance this week at the Reagan Library in Simi Valley, Calif., prompted "renewed consideration." We are assured this was "more than just flattering" that brought this about. Rather, "Christie pals" tell the Post that the Simi Valley experience was "mind-blowing" to Christie, apparently in a manner distinct from the entire past year of Republican luminaries telling him that he would be the most awesome candidate ever.

None of this was exciting or mind-blowing enough to have been reported by anybody on the day after this historic day in which a Republican spoke at the Reagan Library, I guess! But these anonymous sources insist that "something changed that night": "Behind the scenes, sources said, the discussions about running took on a more serious and 'surreal tenor,' as the encouragement from Reagan, Kissinger, Bush and others began to sink in."

I think that presidential campaigns are best launched from a state of surreality. Definitely. Speaking of: the only person who goes on the record for this piece is Roger Stone, who suggests that it's far too late for Christie to jump into the race. But as Stone's latter-day political career is mainly founded on messing with people's heads, this actually lends credence to the notion that Christie will mount a run.

At any rate, we may as well get used to this story getting refiled every day until the South Carolina ballot deadline.

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"Christie seriously considering presidential bid after GOP prodding" [New York Post]

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Comments

[wonderfullone]

01:53 AM on 10/01/2011

Chris Christie is a "Bully" and no oene likes "Bullies".

[Cubanmom]

04:56 PM on 09/30/2011

Forget about it (I say in a Bronx accent), you are not what America needs!

[Liviu]

01:45 PM on 09/30/2011

I ADULATE CHRIS CHRISTIE

There is a politician with a lot of gravitas.
A man that has a certain type of pull in certain orbits.
A man that exerts a tremendous attraction­.
A man that, like Obama, has a mass... following.
A man that, unlike Obama, cannot be pushed around.
A man that can easily roll with the punches.
A man that can get things rolling, starting with himself.
A man that, unlike Obama, no politican would dare to circumvent.
A man of the people that, from his point of view, sees nobody below him.
Men of his stature cannot be ignored.
An Atlas that carries the weight of the world around him.
A man that, like Chuck Norris, doesn't do push-ups; he pushes the Earth down.

[ImpeachBushCheney]

03:56 PM on 09/30/2011

Christy has enough gravitational pull to alter the orbit of planets.

[Liviu]

04:24 PM on 09/30/2011

"A small step for men, a giant leap for Chris Christie"
(Neil Armstrong)

[Helloise]

07:10 PM on 09/30/2011

You really didn't need to write an ode; you could just say you love a bully.

[Liviu]

09:38 PM on 09/30/2011

I think you made a typo. You probably meant bulky.

[Liviu]

11:54 PM on 09/30/2011

I love Chris Christie because he is a very well rounded individual.
I know it's going to be hard for him when he decides to run.
And what we perceive as baby steps toward running, for Christie they feel like giant leaps.

But let me tell you this: when Christie decides to jump into the pool of presidential politics, there will be a tsunami effect changing everything in its wake. A seismic moment in American politics.
And if he drops in the polls, it's going to be cataclysmic as well, but no worries, because he'll bounce back ;)

[Jubb3500]

01:27 PM on 09/30/2011

'Fattest zombie, ever.

[Venicelady]

11:49 AM on 09/30/2011

If a possible candidate says that he or she is NOT a candidate, why not just take that person at face value, and stop giving that person the media attention?

Wouldn't that force the hand of the candidate, and stop the game playing, so that voters could focus on what the declared candidates are saying and doing?

Still, by playing this cat and mouse game with the media, the candidates that say they AREN'T candidates build a wonderful case for building a case somewhere down the road that they had a so- called MANDATE for their policies, when they finally do throw their hat into the ring. And, we, the voting public, lose.....

[threnodymarch]

01:50 PM on 09/30/2011

You took the words right out of my mouth. I'm tired of the games.

[Cubanmom]

04:58 PM on 09/30/2011

Because the Teapublicans are desperate, they wanted Bachman..... eeeeek..... then Perry! Now..... oh no! Perry's not it! And now........ Christie! Yeah.... Christie is the one!

They know they've got nothing!

[Venicelady]

12:09 AM on 10/01/2011

Sad that we have TWO political parties in this country, and neither one offers us a candidate for the most important Office in the land that appears to have the suitable leadership and abilities to attempt to solve the problems that we face as a nation.

[DragonFly]

11:32 AM on 09/30/2011

The Koch brothers really, really want Christie to run - in a big-big way.
(Pun intended.)

Read why here: http://www.alternet.org/story/152553/why_the_kochs_want_to_make_chris_christie_president?akid=7629.73724.c-gg_X&rd=1&t=8

[jdo1958]

11:17 AM on 09/30/2011

I live in NJ, and one thing Christie isn't is a wing nut. The tea partiers won't like that. Also, he's nasty and bossy. That will go so far in a national campaign. Indy's will get very tired of that type of personality very quick. So, as I always say, be careful what you wish for. Just like Obama, he'll turn out not to be the guy you were wishing for.

[thoreau101]

11:16 AM on 09/30/2011

I really implore you, as a citizen of this country to, please, sir, to reconsider. . . Go home and really think about it, please. Do it -- do it for my daughter. Do it for our grandchildren. Do it for our sons. Please, sir, don’t -- we need you. We can't wait till 2016! Your country needs you to GO ON A DIET.

[BethanySchnepally]

01:24 PM on 09/30/2011

Well that's rude.

[thoreau101]

02:11 PM on 09/30/2011

Air Force One would be unable to lift off with him aboard.

[Cubanmom]

05:00 PM on 09/30/2011

No one needs a rude, in your face guy from NJ!

[Voice of Reality]

11:09 AM on 09/30/2011

HP is more interested in character assassination than real issues.
Hype, shock and jive.
Trying dealing with the real issues of this completely failed presidency.

[intellectualTradition]

11:32 AM on 09/30/2011

they peddle tabloid news packaged with lefty sympathetic articles. were they to take out the national enquire type articles, they would be gone in a week.

[abaybay]

01:56 PM on 09/30/2011

Why are you wasting your time on here then?

[Cubanmom]

05:00 PM on 09/30/2011

Go back to Faux News.

[Mausinn]

10:58 AM on 09/30/2011

Christie doesn't want the Prez position, he's angling for the VP spot.

[Jacukel]

10:38 AM on 09/30/2011

WHY THE GOP CAN'T WIN IN 2012:

Perry shot to the top of the polls, not because he's a good candidate (in fact, he's a disaster) but because no one in the GOP is excited about Romney. For the same reasons, Huntsman doesn't inspire the base. They're too "moderate" (by GOP standards). The qualities that make them the only electable candidates in the general, are the same that turn off so much of the GOP base.

The more the GOP gets to know Christie, the more the bloom will fall off that rose, too. Sure, he's anti-union, why the Koch Bros. love him. But he's also "moderate" on certain other issues (the only way a Republican—like Romney— EVER gets elected int he Northeast).

Any candidate who wins the GOP nomination will have to be either so right wing, or listing so far right, that they will alienate independents. Obama already has the young, most educated whites, African Americans and hispanics. Christie's bullying pretty much hands female voters to Obama.

Will this guy (like Romney) energize the Bible Belt and the South? No Republican has won national office in 40 years without doing so. The GOP, in spite of Obama's troubles, remains a marginalized party everywhere but the South and part of the West— because their "ideas" have no appeal anywhere else.

In short: the only candidates they get legitimately excited about (Perry, Palin) can't get elected. Fox News tells them otherwise 24/7, but wishing won't make it so.

[Voice of Reality]

11:10 AM on 09/30/2011

Cue the tiny violin please.
CNN Talking Points Alert!

[intellectualTradition]

11:33 AM on 09/30/2011

keep hope alive. your dog could beat BHO in 2012

[andrewlgm]

10:24 AM on 09/30/2011

Christie believes illegals did not commit a crime and deserve a path to citizenship.

And he believes muslims should not be prohibited from being judges.

Unelectable... or he retracts his positions - and become another political hypocrite.

[LolasDad]

11:33 PM on 09/30/2011

I don't know about Christie thinking that illegals did not commit a crime by entering this country but their are republican politicians who have helped the illegals stay in NJ. Freehold for example, the town council gave them a place to stand on Throckmorton ST to wait for day work. Instead of them getting the INS involved they allow them to continue to look for work then you have the contractors that pick them up for work and pay them off the books. Both the people that employ them and the illegals should be thrown in jail. Just by them coming into this country they are criminals and when will the politicians understand that?.

I would not be surprised if the illegals are registered voters. No ID is needed to register to vote and no ID is needed at the polling place. That basically means that not only can they register in one county and vote but multiple counties and vote in all of them.

[andrewlgm]

01:22 AM on 10/01/2011

I have NEVER been to a registration facility where they didn't ask me at least for my driver's license. In 08 I had to get a new driver's license before registering before it was cracked and they did not accept it.

And illegal workers will always be here as long as the government is owned by corporations. We can complain all we want. But illegal labor is one of the driving forces for these guys accumulating wealth. Contractors, restaurants, the remaining factories we have cheat the system by using cheap labor, screw the government by hiding taxes, and make loads of money by using what is basically "slave" labor.

I get at a sandwich daily for lunch in a deli in front of my building in NYC from a Mexican teenager who makes $350 weekly for 12 hours of work daily. That 72 hours, $4.86 an hour. No taxation, no overtime, no sick days... illegal immigration will never end unless with immigration reform comes jail time for employees, heavy fines, close down of the business, etc. In other words, we can sit and wait...

[Stilyagi]

10:21 AM on 09/30/2011

"Behind the scenes, sources said, the discussions about running took on a more serious and 'surreal tenor,' as the encouragement from Reagan, Kissinger, Bush and others began to sink in."

Next election, Republicans are SO f'ed, it's not funny.

(Of course it is. hehehe)

[rschli7137]

10:13 AM on 09/30/2011

He can't run, roll maybe, but run ... never.

[thoreau101]

11:17 AM on 09/30/2011

Let's see how the blubber meets the road.

[sunshine14]

10:13 AM on 09/30/2011

He is not back the media is back to doing what they also did with Palin? In the media 24/7 out there is back.