God even the liberal, totally partisan Politico thought Chris Christie was GREAT!...He needs to run for President!
Report Card: See how POLITICO scored the speech
By MAGGIE HABERMAN | 2/16/11 2:44 PM EST Updated: 2/16/11 2:56 PM EST
Substance: Moving the nation toward "fiscal sanity," reforming pensions and cutting into politically-sensitive "entitlement programs," using New Jersey's last year as a model.
Presentation: With notes but no text, threaded humor smoothly into a serious speech.
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Conservative red meat: He studiously avoided sounding partisan, including repeated references to his cross-river "soulmate," New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo.
Audience reaction: In a word, he killed.
Obama bash: "What I was looking for [in Obama's State of the Union] was for my president to challenge me. ... And it was a disappointment that he didn’t. "
OVERALL GRADE: A Not only achieved what he wanted to with a call to bipartisan, budget-cutting, pension reform and education improvements, but he again got to leave them wanting more by saying for the 100th time that he's not running in 2012. Is he believable?
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