Christie was being disingenuous at worst, inconclusive at least when he claimed Rubio didn't have

[no_hypocrisy]

the experience to assume the responsibilities of the White House on Day One.

Not that he was wrong. On his record, Rubio is mediocre.

But Christie should have included Donald Trump and Ben Carson as long as he was setting the standard for "professional experience" when one applies for the job of President. Both candidates have less experience than Rubio.

[Human101948]

1. And Christie has experience in failing magnificently...

Chris Christie, America's Most Overrated Governor

Yes, he's a skilled politician and a talented deal-maker who, for his first two years in office, got nearly everything he wanted from the Democratic Legislature.

But it hasn't worked. New Jersey's economy is a mess, even compared with its neighbors. The property tax burden is up sharply. Poverty is rising. And the state's credit rating has dropped on Christie's watch as the long-range outlook deteriorates. His successor will inherit a bigger mess than he did.

Crime is spiking in several of New Jersey's hard-pressed cities, where loss of state aid has forced massive police layoffs. The state's home foreclosure rate is the second highest in the nation and Christie fumbled a federal aid program intended to soften the blow. Yet he tried to raid a fund earmarked for affordable housing until the courts stopped him.

The list goes on. The state's open space program is essentially dead, with no money and no ideas from the governor on how to fix it. The transportation trust fund is broke as well, so the governor has financed projects mostly by borrowing and by scavenging money that former Gov. Jon Corzine had set aside for the Hudson River tunnel project, which Christie canceled.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tommoran/chris-christie-overrated_b_3954073.html

2. The state’s borrowing costs compared with top-rated 10-year municipal bonds swelled as its credit rating fell nine times under Christie thanks to the pension costs and revenue shortfalls. Only Illinois pays more, according to data on 20 states tracked by Bloomberg.

http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2016-01-11/the-state-of-chris-christie-s-new-jersey-in-6-charts

[Renew Deal]

2. Christie is trying to inch up the chart

So he's attacking his biggest threat. Also people see Trumps experience as leadership experience.

[EdwardBernays]

3. I don't know

Both Carson and Trump pass the test Christie set, which is having to be responsible for real world results...

Rubio is just a freshman Senator who's skipped a ton of votes and secretly "borrowed" and "accidentally" spent a lot of money from his party, which he then had to repay.

Trump is a long term pretty successful CEO and Carson has literally made dozens of life and death decisions.

Both are looney tunes nut cakes, but... based on the metric Christie was using, they pass.