As Paul Ryan told Time magazine last month and the Wisconsin State Journal again yesterday, "I've decided not to decide" about a 2016 presidential run, meaning Paul Ryan has now twice announced that he's running.
Nonetheless the press will keep asking Ryan if he's running, when I wish they would instead ask Chris Christie how he expects to survive Iowa and its Ryan Youth movement and Marco Rubio's geotheology and Bobby Jindal's paleohumans-as-dinosaur-hunters and Rick Santorum's all-inclusive-cosmic-imbecility-as-Republican-catnip.
What say you, Chris? Gonna get yourself a couple snakes, or what?
I never thought I would live to see the day that Democrats are unified, organized and have the courage of their convictions, all while the GOP looks like a film written by Tarantino and directed by Fellini.
Posted by: Robert Lipscomb | January 10, 2013 at 12:51 PM
I've been wondering about this myself. Is Christie somehow counting on some restoration of sanity in the herd he hopes to lead? Or is he contemplating a party switch? Neither seems likely does it? If he is going to launch a campaign from a blue state as a red candidate he'll have to do something Romney could not. He will have to win a second term as governor in New Jersey. It looks like that first hurdle won't be that hard. Maybe he should talk to some senior military personnel who have served in Afghanistan about green on blue casualties.
Posted by: Peter G | January 10, 2013 at 02:13 PM
If Allen West were still around Robert, I think I'd have gone with David Lynch (of Eraserhead) as director. With the Tea Party playing the role of the screaming mutant child. Sadly we don't have West to kick around anymore.
Posted by: Peter G | January 10, 2013 at 02:36 PM
@Peter G: I love some David Lynch. My daughter gave me a "Twin Peaks" box set for Chhristmas.
As for Christie, he is making a classic yankee mistake, especially for a Republican politician. He thinks the Redneck Republican act is ... well, an act. It's not. They will not "wake up" and rally round him at the center.
Posted by: Robert Lipscomb | January 10, 2013 at 02:44 PM