George Will Explains Why Christie Won't Run

Pulitzer Prize- winning columnist George Will has a beautiful piece in which he makes a compelling argument as to why New Jersey Governor Chris Christie will not run for President.
According to Will, there are several reasons: Christie doesn't feel he's ready; he won't abandon his family for the grueling national contest; he's got a lot more to do in New Jersey and, he likes being the nation's most powerful governor.
Anyway, here's an excerpt:

Christie was one of the first rocks on which President Barack Obama's overrated political potency crashed. In 2009, Obama campaigned for Gov. Jon Corzine and against Christie in July, October and the Sunday before Christie won handily. No one outside of Washington has made more political waves in the last 20 months than Christie, and no one inside Washington has been as successful.
But he has four children, ages 8 to 17, he will not abandon for presidential politics. When he visited a workaholic aide during her difficult labor before her daughter was born, he said, "Put away your BlackBerry, you are in the middle of a miracle."

Click here to read Will's column.

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Our opinion piece from yesterday's Philadelphia Daily News is the lead item on the HUGE Real Clear Politics blog today.
We're right up there with George Will, E. J. Dionne, Karl Rove and (would you believe) Drew Brees!
Originally titled "The 5 things Obama ought to do now" the piece is bannered at RCP as "Obama Needs Big Changes Now."
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George Will Sees 'Historic Shift' For Congress

Pulitzer Prize winning columnist George Will doesn't usually make wild-eyed predictions.
So, when Will tells you that an "historic shift" lies ahead, you'd better pay attention.
Counting up the many Democrats in the United States Senate who are likely to be vanquished come Election Day, Will notes as follows:
Alaska's incumbent Lisa Murkowski, who the American Conservative Union ranks as the fourth-most-liberal Senate Republican and who already has been rejected by Republicans in the primary, might lose her sore-loser write-in candidacy. Arkansas incumbent Blanche Lincoln is behind by 20 points in the RealClearPolitics average of polls. Wisconsin incumbent Russ Feingold is behind by an average of 8 points. And Colorado incumbent Michael Bennet, appointed to the seat vacated when Ken Salazar became secretary of the interior, trails by a RealClearPolitics average of 4.3.
Click here to read Will's entire column at Investor's Business Daily.

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