Softcore ChristiePorn

Hey, he took off his jacket without blasting a union drone off the stage - it doesn't get any softer than that:

Apparently Double-C isn't allowed to interrupt that pattern with out igniting the 2012 speculation machine:

What Christie is not saying—what he could never say, without wrecking his skillfully wrought image as a straight-talker whose only interest is in fixing his deeply distressed home state—is that he is working like hell to become the favorite, obvious, choice for vice president in 2012. Between the narrative he has constructed at home as the fearless enemy of budget-wrecking special interests, and the chits he has been busy racking up by raising money for Republican candidates from one end of the country to the other, he is putting himself in Position A to be recruited as a running mate…

To most Republicans, he’s a straight-talking fiscal and social conservative: a more conservative version of a Rockefeller Republican to be sure, but without the stigma of being effete or a moral relativist. To Southerners, who are turned off by northern politicians with a permissive social agenda and metrosexual patina, Christie’s pro-life stance passes the smell test…

Brigid Harrison, a political science professor at Montclair State University, said she saw the deft hand of Karl Rove at work in Christie’s carefully plotted midterm itinerary, giving speeches and collecting I.O.U.s from candidates of a like-minded political temperament, but not straying over to radioactive Tea Partiers like Christine O’Donnell in Delaware or Sharon Angle in Nevada, both of whom went down to defeat.

My goodness, but the Left is terrified of the Big Man, aren't they?  They've got him running on a national ticket two years from now like it's a foregone conclusion, but which he wouldn't, COULDN'T talk about NOW or it would ruin the whole supersecret transparent effort, dontcha know?  Or the flipside of that theory, which is that OF COURSE Chris Christie isn't a straight-talker, but instead a cold, calculating schemer just like they are.  Just a lot BETTER at it than they are, of which they're bitterly envious.  That explains Professor Harrison seeing Karl Rove ghost/zombie hands sticking out of tell-tale places.

There is a much simpler, straight-forward, linear alternative explanation for the Double-C phenomenon, though one that would never occur to congenital liars like....well, pretty much anybody left of center, really: Chris Christie means what he says, says what he means, and is the most WYSIWYG pol in America.  That's why he's been so successful and become so popular.  But honest and integrity and courage are such wholly foreign concepts to Obamunists that they have to reinterpret their enemies into a fictitiously comprehensible interpretory framework.

That's how they miss the self-evident foolishness of casting so strong a leader as Governor Christie as seeking the vice presidency.  Can anybody see the Big Man whiling away his days nodding off in the Senate and attending state funerals and otherwise carrying around somebody else's buckets of warm piss?  Maybe for a term under some old fart like a Bob Dole or a Sailor McCain where he'd be the instant heir apparent, but otherwise.... fugheddaboudit.  Bailing before he'd completed a single term in Trenton would be as out of character for the Big Man as showing up in a Dancing With The Stars competition.

But, given how tiresome the Romney/Huckles/Palin futile speculations became years ago, I suppose I can't fault 'em entirely for yearning for new speculator blood like a vampire castaway on the Moon.