The Morning Briefing: Gosh, Whatever Will GOP Voters Do Without Chris Christie?

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We have finally reached go time in the 2024 Republican primary circus. The Iowa caucuses (still a funny word to anyone with a juvenile sense of humor) are mere days away now and the voters (caucusers?) will finally get to weigh in on how they think all of this should go. Thus far, it's all just been so much "Blah, blah, blah" from those of us who are paid to "Blah, blah, blah" about politics.

(Personal aside: I would like to thank all who prefer my irreverent brand of "Blah, blah, blah.")

The writing on the wall gets bigger and easier to read for the fringe candidates in a primary once the voting commences. Former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie didn't need reading glasses to see that his time was up.

This is from Matt:

Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has finally ended his presidential campaign.
“My goal has never been to be just a voice against the hate and division and the selfishness of what our party has become under Donald Trump,” Christie said. “I've always said that if there came a point in time in this race where I couldn't see a path to accomplishing that goal, that I would get out. And it's clear to me tonight that there isn’t a path for me to win the nomination, which is why I'm suspending my campaign tonight for president of the United States.”

Christie's was the worst of the Trump tantrums in this Republican field. He was the first of the failed 2016 candidates to endorse Donald Trump. Christie remained a confidante through 2020. Daddy apparently didn't give him enough hugs, and the relationship soured.

When Christie announced that he would be throwing his hat in the ring for the 2024 race, it made even less sense than the bids of Asa Hutchinson and Doug Burgum. Christie doesn't even have the ditzy charm of the Democrats' Marianne Williamson to offer voters.

Chris Christie did provide some value to the Republicans for a very brief time back when people still went to Blockbuster Video to rent DVDs. Whatever usefulness he offered to the GOP had almost completely disappeared by the time he ran in 2016. Vitriol about Trump from an attention-seeking disgruntled Republican is cheaper than a Hunter Biden promise of fidelity these days, yet that's all Christie brought to the race this time around.

One doesn't need to run for president to be able to cash in on the "Republican who hates Donald Trump" grift, which makes Christie's motivation for 2024 even more difficult to ascertain.

Most of the usual reasons for running a fringe vanity campaign don't apply in this election. The main players didn't need a higher profile in order to rake in some cash from the party's money people. Vivek angling for a spot in the Trump administration makes a little sense. Christie had to be in it just because his ego was telling him to run.

Prior to expressing his concern about the hate and division that Trump has created in the GOP, Christie was badmouthing his rival Nikki Haley, per Matt's post. So, he's a squish egomaniac who is also full of it.

While it's safe to say that the Republican Party won't have to be bothered in any official way by Chris Christie again, there are always more like him waiting in the wings. And by "like him," I mean a Republican who enters a room eyeing the backs of his fellow Republicans to see which one he wants to stab first.

As I've been saying for a very long time, the Republicans are often a bigger problem for the Republicans than the Democrats can ever be.

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