Christie understands that the most important deficit in the Obama White House is a deficit of leadership. He recognizes its absence as a prime cause of our national despair and its necessity if we are to restore confidence and progress.
In that sense, Christie is playing chess while the other candidates are playing checkers.
His “game” is not a matter of intellectual brilliance or a list of programmatic fixes. He is not an orthodox conservative and is deceptively flexible.
His “secret sauce” is a determination to act mixed with a willingness to compromise, and that fits the mood of most voters, especially independents.
The result is a charisma that is powerful without being precious. He is a fat man comfortable in his own skin who sees leadership as a verb.
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