As you probably know, Chris Christie is widely regarded as
landing a solid blow to the Marco Rubio candidacy by claiming that he
frequently repeats the same material in his speeches and debate answers. This
as part of a larger argument that Rubio is a scripted, inexperienced candidate
in stark contrast, one supposes to Gov. Christie.
Now I will admit that of the
remaining candidates I favor Rubio. That said, I find the Christie jab to be on
the merits rather ineffectual, and it becoming such a big story just shows the
silly importance attached to these ‘debates’. For it seems to me that anyone
who runs for president should have arrived at a substantial body of
understandings in regard to politics. They should have a set of stable, but not
rigid, political ideas such that certain expressions, quotes, phrases will
appear frequently in their speeches and comments. This isn’t improvisational
comedy. The LAST thing we should seek in a potential president is day to day
originality.
If we embrace the Christie rule than the obvious choice isn’t
Christie, who not surprisingly gave a packaged answer in the debate to a
question on drug abuse, but Donald Trump. The lightly thought out, spur of the
moment, incoherent ideas of the real estate magnate is apparently what we
should value in a president.
