I believe the State Owned Media has discovered a template, which you described. We need an antidote because there will be a similar competition among Republicans in 2016. I want a vigorous debate that takes a different tact than what we saw in 2012. Instead of attacking each other, our candidates should compete with each other on giving the best attack against the Democrat's performance under Zer0. We need to turn the attack outward, and make the campaign a teaching process to the numb info-bots. The candidates cannot let the State-Owned Media goad them into attacking each other. This will whip up the base into an in-fighting that will be hard to fix when the dust settles after the primaries.
The boisterous, all-for-me character in Christie, gives me worry. I am worried he will be susceptible to the goading by the State-Owned Media. I worry that his no-holds-bared rhetoric will be directed towards fellow Republicans in a way that creates terrible consequences. His attitude of self-importance would be just the type that would walk through the Republican field like a bull in a china shop. He may be the poison pill that infects the GOP with such disunity that it will be impossible to fix.
Instead of the image of the bull in the china shop, I think of the old nursury rhyme, Humpty Dumpty. In this case, Humpty Dumpty is Christie when he takes he GOP off the wall and breaks in pieces after his contentious climb to the top. That will be a tragic outcome at a time when we need unity behind a statesman like a Ronald Reagan in the Presidency.
