Actually, Christie just gets the adulation because he knows something about mathematics and its application to budgeting. That’s a skill little practiced in American society, least of all in the Congress, which cannot even calculate the sum of its spending intentions for this fiscal year.
On every issue unrelated to mathematics of budgeting, Chris Christie might be a left-wing liberal. But New Jersey faces a dire fiscal crisis, so both he and we ignore whatever left-wing liberal views he has on unrelated matters.
Yes, Chris is the man! He would eat Obama’s lunch in a debate.