Chris Christie: Watercolor Memories Of A Candidacy That 'Peaked Too Soon'

[DonViejo]

Jason Linkins

As New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie was still settling into his swivel chair at this week's Conservative Political Action Conference, his interlocutor for the Q&A session, conservative talk-radio host Laura Ingraham, began by asking about his "rough couple of months ... in the media."

"They just want to kill ya," Christie said, "but I'm still standing." Christie was, at the time, referring semi-explicitly to The New York Times. "I don't subscribe, by the way," Christie said, to a smattering of applause. Moments later, he had another quip for the Grey Lady. "I went to my parish priest and said I’m giving up The New York Times for Lent,” Christie joked. “Bad news: He said you have to give up something you’ll actually miss.”

Pro tip for anyone who wants to demonstrate that the media isn't living rent-free in your head: Maybe just pick one funny story about how you gave up reading The New York Times.

But Ingraham couldn't have been more right about Christie's recent woes. In the last two weeks especially, it seems as if the political press has decided en masse to start spading the graveyard soil over Christie's once-lush aspirations for higher office. There is varying enthusiasm for the duty.

NBC News' Perry Bacon has discussed the "growing skepticism from influential Republicans about his likely presidential run." Politico's "caucus" of Iowa insiders couldn't find a place for Christie in their deliberations. FiveThirtyEight's Harry Enten, after examining the ratio of name recognition and net favorability among the potential GOP candidates, offered up this 16-word coffin nail: "Chris Christie, the Republican governor of New Jersey, is well known, but not particularly well liked."

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[justhanginon]

1. Christie to me is the quintessential archetype of

a corrupt, loud, overbearing, bullying, wannabe tough guy politician that people should be running, not walking away from. It is incredible to me that anyone would think he would be anything but a total disaster as president of this country.

[Zen Democrat]

2. There is a tide in the affairs of people like Chris Christie, when missed ... it's over.

Remember when he was speaking at the Reagan Library in 2012 and all there, even Nancy herself, were there to urge him to throw his fedora into the ring ... and he said it wasn't his time.

Now it never will be.

Timing is everything.

[TwilightGardener]

3. Come on, big guy! Claw your way back in!!

I hate to see the clown car de-populate.