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I have actually been quite taken aback that the GOP - even the modern, more Liberal GOP - was and is trying to sell Chris Christie to the base as the “answer.” I understand that the modern GOP has one constituency, and one constituency alone, the Chamber of Commerce; but the Chamber doesn't bring out votes, and nobody’s buying the “safe, noncontroversial ‘Conservative’ at the bottom of the ticket” bribe attempts anymore.

At some point, the GOP-E needs to understand what a compromise candidate actually is. What it is NOT is taking the candidate who is the most anathema to grassroots Conservatives and ramming him down their throats. The Chamber, and the GOP-E, need to be smarter this time around. Christie is abhorred by the Conservative grassroots. You can pretty much BEGIN the General Election count with a 10-20% loss of self-professed “Conservative” votes. They won't make up with Independents any more than Romney did.

The Christie candidacy needs to be put to rest NOW, before it becomes the vehicle through which the Dems win the White House again.

Christie is abhorred by the Conservative grassroots.

I liked Christie for his aggressive, in your face attitude - as opposed to most Northeastern Republicans who remove their hats and say "yessir, yessir" to the Democrat establishment there (I'm looking at you, Romney). I didn't care for his politics, but thought he was about the best we could hope for in New Jersey. But the country isn't New Jersey. If we get a Republican candidate who has a chance in New Jersey in a case other than a national landslide like 1984, then he isn't acceptable to me.