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The governor’s smackdown of Christie really needs no amplification. It was pitch perfect. The trolls will never be pacified, and who cares? It will be the same talking points. She quit. Alaska is a small state, population wise. Yada yada yada.

My answer: I hope Christie decides to enter the race and cuts the Hamlet routine. If he does, he is going to have a lot of ‘splaining to do. Not just the Ground Zero mosque, Mike Castle, cap and tax and assorted other poison pills, but his very sordid record as U.S. Attorney in New Jersey. Until I began to read up on him, I had no idea of the extent of his double dealing with no bid contracts to other prosecutors who did him and his corrupt brother official favors.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/26/nyregion/26christie.html

“Christie has been accused of using his office’s role in crafting deferred prosecution agreements to award lucrative federal monitoring positions in no-bid contracts to friends, supporters, and allies. Questions first arose after Christie awarded a multimillion dollar, no-bid contract to David Kelley, another former U.S. Attorney, who had investigated Christie’s brother, Todd Christie, in a 2005 fraud case involving traders at the Wall Street firm, Spear, Leeds & Kellogg. Kelley had declined to prosecute Todd Christie, who had been ranked fourth in the investigation-initiating U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) complaint among twenty traders who earned the largest profits for their company at the expense of their customers. The top three were indicted, as were eleven other traders.”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Christie#cite_note-21

Moreover, his self dealing with his assistants, and his efforts to conceal it stink to high heaven. I am very familiar with how U.S. Attorney’s offices work and I have never seen anything like this in my life:

“On August 18, 2009, Christie acknowledged that he had loaned $46,000 to first assistant U.S. Attorney for New Jersey Michele Brown two years ago, while serving as her superior as the state’s U.S. attorney, and that he had failed to report either the loan or its monthly $500 interest payments on both his income tax returns and his mandatory financial disclosure report to the New Jersey Election Law Enforcement Commission. In response to the disclosure of the financial relationship between Christie and Brown, State Senator Loretta Weinberg, the Democratic candidate for lieutenant governor, called on Brown to recuse herself from the task of retrieving U.S. Attorney’s Office records requested by the Corzine campaign under the Freedom of Information Act.On August 25, 2009, Brown resigned from her post, stating that she does not want to be “a distraction” for the office.”

While he was U.S. Attorney, Christie had established a business relationship with his First Assistant, Michele Brown, who was the acting U. S. Attorney when he resigned, which he concealed both on his tax returns and his financial disclosure forms, and when he is running for Governor, she is the one who decides what documents will be released by the U.S. Attorney’s office in response to a Freedom of Information Act request seeking information on his activities as U.S. Attorney. How very convenient!

I had no idea that, when the voters of New Jersey elected Christie over the thoroughly corrupt Corzine, they were choosing the lesser of two evils. And, from the looks of Christie’s record, not by much.

And there is plenty more where that came from. As little as Sarah Palin has in common with Christie politically, they are even more dissimilar ethically. So if Christie wants to enter and cut the corpulent braggadocio, let him do so. Palin will lance him like the overripe melon he is.