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Christie As the Giuliani of 2012

This Politico story on the obstacles facing a possible Christie campaign contained this unintentionally hilarious line: The governor has aides with presidential experience — both his communications director Maria Comella and top political adviser Mike DuHaime were on Rudy Giuliani’s campaign [bold mine-DL] — and there are consultants in the wings who are available to […]

This Politico story on the obstacles facing a possible Christie campaign contained this unintentionally hilarious line:

The governor has aides with presidential experience — both his communications director Maria Comella and top political adviser Mike DuHaime were on Rudy Giuliani’s campaign [bold mine-DL] — and there are consultants in the wings who are available to step in and handle media, polling and mail.

With any luck, Christie could go on to enjoy as much success in the primaries as Giuliani did. The reply to that is that Christie’s advisers have the advantage of having gone through one absurd disaster of a campaign to know how to avoid making the same mistakes, but it certainly doesn’t bode well. Someone might also object that Giuliani’s ambitions for higher office were ridiculous, and he was clearly unqualified to run for national office, but that just underscores the similarities between the two. Except for the last 20 months, Christie has been a prosecutor and a mostly unsuccessful local politician with brief stints as a corporate lobbyist and a fundraiser for George W. Bush. Were it not for enormous amounts of flattering coverage, Christie would not be regarded as a national figure or plausible presidential candidate, and very much like the Giuliani buzz the enthusiasm for a Christie bid is one shared mainly by party elites and it something almost completely driven by the media.

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