re: #128 Lidane

All because he did the right thing by his NJ constituents by working with the Obama Administration and coming out and saying that he’s going to do what he needs to do to make sure NJ gets the disaster aid it needs and deserves.

That caused a whole lot of butthurt among GOPers and TPers, so they’re now taking it out on him.

Yet, doing so might actually be a liberating moment for Christie since he doesn’t need the conservatives to win reelection in NJ and could hasten the crackup of the GOP generally. Christie might be about the only GOPer in a 2016 field who has a chance of winning a blue state. Everyone else who is considering a run has no chance, and isn’t likely to expand the map from what Romney did last year.

Rubio? Jindal? Bachmann? Santorum? Paul?

Santorum comes closest, having represented PA in the past, but they tossed him out of office and he couldn’t even win his home state in the 2012 primaries.

That goes to just how the GOP is marginalizing itself to a Southern strategy and lacking a candidate that can appeal outside of the socon havens.