Roger Simon: 'Nimble Christie' Now Has the Liberal Media Just Where He Wants Them

      Simon has a great tongue in cheek column which argues that now the Right is finally going to embrace Christie-as the liberal media is pillorizing him. The conservatives want a fire-breather than liberals hate and now he can be the guy-rather than the guy who embraced President Obama during Sandy. 

       "Chris Christie’s master plan is working. By making himself totally intolerable to Democrats, he is making himself somewhat acceptable to Republicans."

      "A variety of Democratic mayors in New Jersey are now howling at Christie for being a bully and a creep."

      "'This is music to his ears."

       "Christie, the Republican governor of New Jersey, wants to be the Republican nominee for president in 2016. But in the past he has cooperated with Democrats and even rubbed shoulders with Barack Obama.

This has helped Christie in the very early, largely worthless public opinion polls, but it has hurt him with influential Republicans."

      "Republican fat cats wonder why they should bundle big dollars for Christie. Once elected, he could squander their tax dollars on things like feeding the hungry and housing the homeless."

      "And ideological “movement” Republicans are tired of nominating candidates who slide to the left in order to get elected but then don’t get elected. This time they want a far-right fire-breather who will, at the very least, feed their sense of martyrdom."

      Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2014/01/chris-christie-roger-simon-says-102450.html#ixzz2r8Yud8fA

     I have myself thought that this might turn finally get a few conservatives on his side-if the liberals hate him he must be a great guy. 

     Christie has found a solution: He will get Democrats to hate him. He will get liberal talk-show hosts to hate him. He will get left-wing bloggers to hate him.

Then he will go to the Republican big shots and say, “Hey, if these goons hate me, how bad could I be?”

      Of course, there's only one downside to this plan. 

      "The only flaw in his plan is that it is difficult to campaign for president from prison. Or while under indictment. Or even while under serious investigation.

      Simon points out that Christie's got a new novel answer: New Jersey has 65,000 employees and he can't be responsible for what any one of those 65,000 might write on the government stationary at anytime. Yes, he's the no nonsense guy who's on top of everything but surely this doesn't mean he's responsible for anything that actually happens.