Man in the Mirror

By MAUREEN DOWD
NYT

WASHINGTON

The unlikely femme fatale from Jersey sashayed into a Trenton news conference and broke a lot of hearts. (Not Snooki’s or Barry’s, of course.)

Watching Chris Christie hold forth for an hour, it’s hard to know whether you want to hug him or slap him. There’s something both lovable and irritating about the man.

It’s not the puffed up body that’s off-putting. It’s the puffed up ego.

He skipped the line that he was not ready to be president and made it clear that, oh, yeah, he’s tremendous and just the right guy to make sure Obama is “a one-termer,” but he can’t be in a romance with mooning Republicans and back-on-the-market independents just now.

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