At least, that is what he said at a recent town hall.
Christie, who once led the pack in the nascent race to be the GOP’s presidential nominee in 2016, noted that it’s his last term as governor. “I’m not going to worry about politics anymore, everybody. This is it. I’m on the back nine,” he insisted. “When you’re on the back nine and you don’t have to worry about playing another front nine, your only obligation is to tell people the truth.”
A few more thoughts over the orange bridge.
These words of Christie's may mean nothing. I mean, he has lied A LOT before. Like, LOADS. So he could be trying a little faux humility just to keep the media pack away.
On the other hand...
It is a complete change in his style. It is a complete departure from politicians in general, and from Christie's style in particular, to say he's never running again. Most maintain that they are going to win, win, win, even when they have to depend on skewed polls and Karl Rove's reading of Ohio.
It is particularly unlike Christie, who went to the Republican National Convention which was supposed to be nominating Mitt Romney but still spent the whole time talking about himself.
So...
My guess is that Christie knows that something really bad is out there, and that it's going to bite him. And so he wants to do as good a job as he can so that he has some dignity when it ends.
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Tired of politics? Need to escape? Try one of my Greek-mythology based novels, either the story of Jocasta: The Mother-Wife of Oedipus or a trilogy about Niobe, or one of the first examples of civil disobedience, Antigone and Creon. Or, if you like mysteries and/or Jane Austen, treat yourself to The Highbury Murders: A Mystery Set in the Village of Jane Austen’s Emma or the contemporary Academic Assassination.