[Fungi]

Gotta disagree you you here. He was good at putting a finger in the wind, attention, and eating doughnuts. He lacked one thing, a conservative weltanschauung and the fortitude to carry it out. He failed.

[Alberta's Child]

I'm no fan of Christie, but he didn't "fail" at anything. He was a Republican governor in a state where both houses of the legislature have been controlled by the Democrats for years, and there simply wasn't much he was capable of doing anyway.

I've had this theory that Christie would have preferred not to run for a second term in 2013 anyway -- and that he was lining himself up as the AG nominee if Romney had won in 2012.