NJ Paper: Christie ‘Seriously Rethinking’ And May Make Presidential Run | Election 2012

Chris Christie is a thin-skinned hothead, I can say from personal experience. But he is also smart and savvy and cocky. It must be very difficult to keep your wits about you when everyone around you is fawning and flattering. Hard to remind yourself that you are just a half-term governor and former prosecutor with a quick-lip and a bullying streak and maybe you need a good deal more seasoning.

So you count on your wife to talk sense into you. Then Barbara Bush and Nancy Reagan call her...and now she begins to allow herself to entertain thoughts of life on Pennsylvania Avenue, and the arcade fire begins to build...

NJ Paper: Christie ‘Seriously Rethinking’ And May Make Presidential Run | Election 2012: " the Star-Ledger’s anonymous source, described as “close to the governor,” says the aggressive “Draft Christie” effort finally seems to be paying off.

“An adviser close to the governor” cites Christie’s wife, Mary Pat, as having previously been a major dampener on any White House ambitions Christie may have harbored. However, the source says Mrs. Christie’s objections to raising a family in the White House diminished after a call from former first lady Barbara Bush. A discussion with Nancy Reagan is also said to have helped change her mind."

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