[Responsibility2nd]

Christie established a national profile early in his gubernatorial tenure on the strength of his attractively brash personality, and was well-positioned to marshal that into an extremely credible bid for 2016. Now, however, it appears he may not even end up running. (Though I don’t discount his chances completely.)

Tracey must have missed the fact that Christie was in Wisconsin last week stumping with Walker.

Christie will definitely run.

[Din Maker]

2016 is looking like just the opposite of ‘08 and ‘12 when there was a gazillion conservatives running and one RINO. The conservatives split the votes, both years, and the RINO waltzed to the nomination. This time..................

THE CONSERVATIVE WING OF THE GOP NEEDS TO RALLY AROUND ONE CANDIDATE..... TED CRUZ and let the RINOs split up their votes and we will have a Conservative President elected in 2016. If we don’t put forward a bold candidate with fire in his belly and a conservative message, we will have a Democrat in the White House forever.

[arthurus]

The only hope we have of getting a Conservative nominee is that Christie and Jeb and Romney all contest strongly the primaries and hold on to the end of them. That will, for once, split the Democrat and “moderate” vote in the ostensibly Republican primaries. For several cycles the conservatives have had a plethora of candidates and could not unite behind any one of them so the minority socialists who ran singly won the Nomination. If the Lefties sort themselves out and present a single candidate, at least after New Hampshire, the Next In Line will win, surely Bush or Romney. I am betting on Bush.