I think Christie had four motivations:
1) to plump himself for reelection,
2) to create an opening for a 2016 presidential run,
3) to keep Obama from patching things up with Christie’s reelection rival, Corey Booker, and
4) to get even with Romney for having snubbed him for VP.
His very simple reason for waiting for what was the last minute as far as his opportunity to strike at Romney is that Romney’s campaign was giving him the funding and excuse to campaign around the country, ostensibly for Romney but really for himself, until the storm Sandy sucked up the last week before the election.
“...to keep Obama from patching things up with Christie’s reelection rival, Corey Booker,...”
You know what - I never even thought of that. FuBO DID have a blowup with Booker about his going off the plantation, now that you mention it...
As for his 2016 run, I think we can safely say that he’s finished as far as conservatives go; the RINO bluebloods may try to resurrect him, but again, we need to start figuring out - NOW - how to stop both sides from f***ing us over again.
This is a battle in a larger war; we need to remember that always - in the same way that it took Pearl Harbor, Bataan, Corregidor, the Phillippines, etc., to get the surrender document on the USS Missouri.
I know it’s hard to see that right now - but it’s DEFINITELY how the other side looks and has looked at this struggle for control. What was Mao’s saying? Three steps forward, one step back?
They see the long field. They make a gain, then sit on it and exploit it, regroup, and come back for another. If they get defeated, they wait and try again. And in the meantime, they have multiple other attempts going on - so much so that we find ourselves concentrating on one or two things and getting the sh*t kicked out of us on twelve other fronts.
“Our” side has RINOs and spineless fools that we keep electing, hoping that just because they have an “R” after their name that they think like we do. They don’t. I think Christie - and as FredZarguna mentioned, Specter - are perfect examples.
We want to crush the other side; they want to go along to get along.
It may indeed be possible that Christie was just looking out for “his folks” in Jersey. But it sure as hell didn’t come off that way, and in the face of an election with such monumental consequences, I am of the mindset ANY damage, even the slightest, became magnified and Murphy’s law kicked in.
That’s about it...I do hope that when he settles in for the night, each night, as disaster looms on this country, he has a chance to think about the part he played in it, and how history will view him for it - there’s a certain Revolutionary War “hero” who sold out too, and he’s not remembered as the Hero of Saratoga (which he was) - he’s remembered as the guy who gave the keys to the defense of America to the enemy at a desperate time, all because he didn’t get his way.
LOLOLOL I don’t think he needs to get plump....and of course he’s mad he didn’t get the vp pick....he’s full of hate and revenge.
You are reading waaaay too much into Christie's motivation for complimenting TOTUS. Christie was deeply, emotionally and completely overwhelmed by the catastrophic destruction that befell his beloved New Jersey.
Christie may not be capable of higher office, as evidenced by his emotional meltdown following a disaster. However, to think that Christie was jockeying for anything beyond federal assistance to pick up the pieces of NJ is obtuse.