[Nevadan]

I haven't read all the details of the story yet, but from what I gather the closings went on for days. If Christy was perfectly innocent and unaware of what his aides were up to, shouldn't he have done something after the first day of the closings, being the strong leader that he is? He could have even turned it into a show of leadership that would have gained him praise among the citizens of the area if he had ordered the lanes to be reopened. But he didn't.

All sounds pretty damning to me.

[babygene]

“But he didn’t. All sounds pretty damning to me.”

I agree... If he didn’t know about it ahead of time,it seems clear that with something as disruptive as this, he would have ask after a few hours.

He’s responsible, period.

[DoughtyOne]

With all due respect, he’s governor. Do you think he oversees every road closure in the state? He delegates such matters to his transportation secretary (staff member, whatever) and doesn’t give this type of thing a second thought.

If they can find a memo where he tells this person to cause a traffic tie-up in retribution, I think Christie’s fair game. If they can’t, this is a tempest in a tea-pot, just the sort of game the Democrats run on Republicans all the time.

The Democrats see Christie as a threat. Sure we can let them take him down. And then that leaves the coast clear for them to go after a more solid candidate, one we might approve of.

None of this goes down without repercussions.

Christie must not be our next presidential nominee, but this isn’t the way to go about that in a healthy manner.