Maybe he was just afraid
by digby
People have been wondering why Chris Christie didn’t turn his considerable talents for bullying against the big bully Donald Trump when he had the chance. He’s apparently very defensive about it, with most people explaining that he was fighting Rubio for the “establishment lane” in New Hampshire so going after the front-runner didn’t make sense.
But it may have been something else:
Even if Christie could have made an impact, his counselors said, they weren’t sure it would have helped them.
“Is it a confrontation for confrontation’s sake? Was that going to accrue to our benefit or to someone else’s benefit?” the adviser asked.
Another top Christie adviser said, “A lot of times we were playing a short-term game. We were playing to get in to the next debate.”
“Nobody wants to be a suicide bomber,” this adviser said. “Then you’ve decided you’re part of a cause and not a candidacy.”
Now, some in New Jersey are already speculating that Christie could endorse Trump in order to curry favor with the GOP frontrunner in the hope of being named attorney general.
Christie has known Trump for 13 years. “We’ve always gotten along. Been friends for 13 years. I went to his wedding, the third one,” Christie told me over the summer.
A close Christie confidante, asked via text message Wednesday about the possibility of the governor endorsing Trump, did not rule it out.
“You never know,” he wrote back.
Mr integrity.
Or maybe the truth is really that Christie is one of those bullies who only picks on people who can’t fight back. Trump would have fought back and I’d imagine it wouldn’t have been pretty.
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