Christie won big because he wrapped his arms around president & Dems rewarded him by standing down.

[kpete]

Chris Christie had a big win and gave a pretty good speech. But the theme he took was about cooperation. The reality is that Christie won big because he wrapped his arms around the president and the Democrats rewarded him by standing down. What kind of message does that send to the rest of the Republican Party?

http://www.boomantribune.com/story/2013/11/5/232623/965

[B Calm]

1. In a national election republicans would run away from him!

[JoePhilly]

2. He embraced Obama because he HAD to not because he wanted to.

If Christie could have told Obama to F-off, he would have.

Christie correctly determined that people who need disaster relief have little patience for government grid lock. So this "small government conservative" embraced big government.

In state Dems, looked out for themselves. They were not about to run against Christie after Sandy.

[SoCalDem]

3. He also won big because he pushed Booker's election to a Wednesday in October

He would probably have still won, but the margin would have been slim, if Booker's senate seat was included on the correct ballot/day.

[pacalo]

4. That is my impression as well.

[stevenleser]

5. Exactly right and when you factor in how Repugs nationally hate Obama, you get why there is zero

chance of Christie being nominated for President. First of all, he is a Northeast Republican and those are viewed suspiciously by everyone else anyway. Then there is the public way he cooperated with Obama after Sandy just days before the election. They hate the guy.

I can already tell you all what pictures Rand Paul, Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz will use in the runup to the Iowa primary:

[liberal_at_heart]

6. Any moderate from either party has to embrace the other party. We see democrats

suck up to and cater to the republicans all the time so that they can appeal to the middle.