It sounded more like desperate spite than anything, and maybe a little unfounded optimism that disgust with the Tea Party and Midwesterners turning on new GOP governors for (public) union busting might carry over to NJ. Wishful thinking, from the looks of it; Christie seems a lot more able to get what he wants without ruffling nearly as many feathers as Walker and Kasich, but then, he surely knows he can't run on "All Democrats Suck!" in NJ. I don't know much about him other than what's been in the news recently but, frankly, I think that makes him the scariest potential nominee now for Democrats; he's likable, has a much better record of conservative accomplishments than Romney (or Perry, if we really look), and seems to have appeal across the political spectrum without completely alienating anyone but die hard Dem partisans who aren't going to vote for any Republican anyway. Too bad for Republicans that Romney can phone in the nomination. And, of course, too bad for America that we're guaranteed the same policies whomever Republicans nominate, and whoever's elected.