There isn’t going to be a 2016 for Chris Christie. He was never a serious candidate for a national race, for a number of reasons I pointed out on a thread the other day. People seem to forget than once you hitch your wagon to a loser in a presidential race, you’re pretty much done. This is why Rudy Giuliani is nowhere to be seen, Joe Lieberman was less popular than tuberculosis in his post-2000 races, John Edwards is such a laughingstock that it’s a wonder he was ever a serious candidate for anything, etc.
P.S. Add Sarah Palin to that list, too.
Even so, no; it's not all on Christie. This election should not have been close.
We have to come to terms with this fact: we have lost the ideological battle. America is simply not a right-of-center country anymore. That has been a long time in coming, but it is now unmistakably upon us. When a President says that he "saved" a company by stealing $80bn+ dollars from taxpayers, screwed the bondholders, screwed the shareholders, screwed all of the non-union employees, and since taking that money has moved almost all of its new manufacturing to Mexico and China and the people in -- OF ALL PLACES, OHIO -- actually accept that story, we have a LOT of work to do.
We are swimming in an ocean of ideological filth, mathematical innumeeracy, and economic lunacy. And out stsandard bearers are not the ones with the primary responsibility of cleaning up the waters.