Five things the rest of America doesn't know about Chris Christie

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1. He lies like the rest of them, and then some.

2. He breathes fire, but he governs effectively as a moderate.

3. The “New Jersey Comeback” is a fiction, and he knows it

4. He’s not extreme enough for the Republican base.

The last one is the big one and his true Claim to fame

5. He has a secret weapon: New Jersey’s Democratic bosses.


If you know Christie only from his appearances on YouTube and cable TV, as most people do, you might think that storyline is true.
But here in Jersey, we live with the man full time. Like the wife of a movie star, we see him at home without his makeup, when he is an unshaven mess reaching for his first cup of coffee in the morning.
And we know this: He’s not as great as his groupies think. Most people here like the job he’s doing, and he has scored some big wins. But he can’t race cars and jump out of airplanes, and he has not healed New Jersey’s wounds by any stretch.


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