En New Jersey creen que Christie quiere ser Presidente

Michael Blumenthal ha escrito una interesante pieza analizando las ambiciones presidenciales del Gobernador Chris Christie.

(...) Pummeled with questions, Christie, who has been governor for less than a year, told a gaggle of reporters in Trenton last week: “Short of suicide, I don’t really know what I’d have to do to convince you people that I’m not running.” Days later, on "Meet the Press," where all unambitious politicians show up on Sunday mornings, he explained his activity by saying, “I care about my country and felt like those people were the absolute best candidates to make my country a better place … That’s why I campaigned for them. I have no other agenda.”

But professional political types in New Jersey see Christie’s aggressive displays of disinterest for what they are: meaningless, if necessary, theater. His allies and enemies alike agree that he has played his Angry Governor role to great political effect so far, a notion supported by his standing in the public polls. They also agree, Republicans as readily as Democrats, that the current crop of prospective G.O.P. presidential talent outside their state is extraordinarily weak.

For better or worse, these Jersey politicians believe, the idea of their big, big-talking governor on a national ticket is anything but a joke.

As the former New Jersey governor Tom Kean put it this week in an interview with Capital: “The presidency could come to him.”

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