Must. Say. Nothing.
While I am still firmly of the opinion that Gov. Chris Christie, aka The Last Supposedly Reasonable Republican, has not a snowball's chance in Texas of winning the next Republican presidential nomination, being that
Supposedly Reasonable has been the stake to which a dozen or more similarly statured Republicans have been tied before being eagerly lit on fire by their own base, it does appear that the good governor is going to continue to be force-fed to us by an entire national media establishment devoted to pretending that his party does not hate his everloving guts.
So Christie gets to make the Sunday show rounds, where he can practice the eternally important skill of not saying a damn thing on any damn topic lest that opinion be used against him.
STEPHANOPOULOS: One issue that’s sure to come up is immigration. You mentioned that you got a majority of the Latino vote in your re-election. And you’re for a path to citizenship. You also said that undocumented students in New Jersey should get in-state tuition rates. Do you think other states should adopt that policy as well?
CHRISTIE: Listen, I think nationally, they have to fix a broken system. And I think this is one of the real frustrations that people across the country have on this and a myriad of other issues is they look at what governors do, like in New Jersey, where we confront problems, we debate them, we argue about them, then we get to a table, we come to an agreement, we fix them and we move on. And in Washington, that seems to almost never happens.
The above barrel roll was followed by several more loops and dives as Gov. Chris Christie, The Last Supposedly Reasonable Republican, bravely fled from all his previous opinions on the matter like the Red Baron himself was on his tail:
When the host reminded him that he’s able to share an opinion about a pressing issue, the governor replied, “Well, listen, I can have an opinion about lots of things, George, but we’re not going to go through all that this morning are we?”
Christ, man, this is a
Sunday show. What kind of monsters would invite a nationally known politician to a Sunday show and ask him to have
opinions on things? This is the biggest atrocity inflicted on a candidate since someone asked Sarah Palin whether or not she
read.
Oh, Christie wants that nomination bad. We're still years off, and his devotion to blandifying himself down to a featureless candidate-shaped shell is so thorough that even George Freaking Stephanopoulos has him sweating various juices. I still don't think he's got a prayer, but if Mitt Romney made it through the fever swamp I suppose there's hope for anyone—so long as he has no opinions on anything, anywhere for the next three years. Let the games begin.