Bush actually ran as a compassionate conservative not a real one. At least he was honest.
True. He was far from perfect, but ran a much more conservative campaign than either since. He was weak on a few issues and triangulated on a few others. He was able to motive the base to show up, and won because he did. McCain and Romney cold not. Christie probably couldn’t either.
I actually like Christie, but he’s definitely showed his weaknesses in the past 10 months and I have no interest in him entering national politics. He’d probably be a great senator down the road. He’d be a vote on on a lot of issues we would never get from NJ otherwise.