It's unfortunate, because he's been magnificent in the budgetary and fiscal debate. Mark Steyn mentioned Christie specifically yesterday when a caller asked him who he thought could be "the one" for the Republicans in 2012. He noted that the very premise of the question is the wrong way to go about it. Messianic "rock star" figures are something the Leftists go for, not us. We're looking for competent citizen-statesmen guided by fidelity to the Constitution. The Left's fetishistic attraction to personalities has a long history. Almost all Marxist regimes in history have been dominated by personality cults - Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Tito, Ceausescu, Castro, etc. The cult they built around Obama is downright embarrassing. We don't need to go down that unnatural path.
Christie might be the best we can expect for a state like New Jersey, but he's got too many demerits for the Office of President.