Yes, it's a good day not to be Chris Christie. Things just keep getting worse for the guy and now, everyone seems to saying that this scandal destroys his chances of a serious presidential run in 2016. I'm sure someone else has thought of this joke by now but I'm imagining someone asking him if he's going to run and he says, "I'll blockade that bridge when I get to it."
Anyway, I disagree. I don't think this destroys the possibility of a Christie run at the White House because I don't think there ever was one. His infamous temper and style make him look pretty non-presidential. (He doesn't much look like a governor lately, either. He looks like a guy who runs an auto body shop explaining why your car is not only not ready when he promised it but that someone in his shop, against his wishes, drove it off a pier into the ocean. What's more, he'll accept responsibility for it as long as everyone understands that he didn't do it, had no knowledge of it and that someone else is really responsible.)
But does anyone think this guy ever had a shot at winning the presidency in 2016? He's too conservative for anything but the Republican party but kinda moderate on a few issues, plus he was famously friendly with Barack Obama. That's enough to make him a non-starter in a G.O.P. where a sitting Republican senator or representative can get primaried merely for not hating Obama enough.
I'm sorry this has all happened. There was something I once liked about Christie…an occasional honesty and candor I found refreshing. I have to learn to stop liking political figures because, sooner or later, most of them disappoint you.