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In reply to the discussion: We must not kid ourselves into thinking that Christie hasn't got a shot at the White House [View all]Agnosticsherbet
(11,619 posts)It is whether he can win the Republican Primary. Republican's have a history of nominating someone who appeals to the Big Business Conservative Wing of the party. The Koch brothers are not really part of that wing, being rich ideologues of the old John Birch Society. Cruz with his Cominionist religious upbringing is more the Teaparty style.
Christie can do that. The Big Bossiness Wing is upset at the Teaparty crazies and don't want anything to do with them because the Teaparty is a radical group with no interest in business as usual but areal interest in deconstructing modern America and rebuilding and returning it to the thrilling days of White dominated yesteryear that lives in their own paranoid fantasies.
I suspect she will win the nomination unless someone that excites the youth wing and the progressive wing, as Obama did. comes along. Bad mouthing aside, I think she will kick Christies Ass, but it will not be as easy as kicking Cruz's Ass. A lot of the big business wing of the Republican Party will back Hillary, or any Democrat, against the crazies.