republican party like sarah palin who thought it was okay to walk away in two years when the state had lots of problems. i think chris christie getting in the race would have changed the map. he would have been a serious threat to president obama. he would have put new jersey and new york in play. he would have played well in pennsylvania as well. seeing him walk away is a sigh of relief to some democrats. republicans are looking to who should be the nominee. john mccain wasn t leading in the polls until december 31st in the year before his selection as the republican nominee. we may not yet see who the frontrunner is. i any rick perry is fading fast. he will not survive this primary season. i think, you know, it just keeps piling on for him. i think republicans missed and opportunity for alexis christoforous me. you only get one shot as m & m says. chris christie is young and he ll have another chance.
everything accelerates a little bit faster. as the calendar compresses we start getting into, you know, late october, november, republican consultant mark ma kin on was quoted as saying, dream dating is over with this decision, quote, time to love the one you re with. and i think that that is really indicative of where the party is. while there are some people who are still calling on governor palin to get in. that is less and less likely to happen. and now it s time to love the one you re with. megyn: tell that to the farmer in nebraska who has governor christie recounted in an extraordinary story did the following, listen to the governor. i mean, we got fedex over the weekend at home from a farmer in nebraska some my children asking my children to sit me down and tell me that it was okay to miss their games, and their concerts, and their events because our country needed me more, and that if they did that that they would
something he said he did, that he did reconsider it seriously with his family, but saying he has a commitment to new jersey, saying the people sent me to trenton to get a job done, and i m just not prepared to walk away. and putting it this way in terms of the timing of all of this. listen to the governor moments ago. i ve thought long and hard about this decision. i ve explored the options, i ve listened to so many people and considered whether this was something that i needed to take on. but in the end what i ve always felt was the right decision remains the right decision today. now is not my time. i have a commitment to new jersey that i simply will not abandon. megyn: the governor saying he did not feel it was right to leave before his job in new jersey was finished. so what does all of this mean for governor christie and for the republican race for president going forward?
similar to governor christie in that way in his delivery and answer to questions. but the big question is, money and support. and when that all starts to move it could move quickly. whether governor romney he is well positioned to take most advantage, perhaps, of the chris christie phenomena and all of the focus. megyn: let me ask you one quick question before i let you go. one of the things that people love about chris christie is that he s blunt, he s plain spoken and he doesn t take a lot of guff from anybody. check out this one moment he had with this one reporter at that press conference. and i want to ask you about it. if you re looking for something else it s not there. it just didn t feel right to me to leave before the job was done and again, i think in response to jonathan s question it s the same thing. megyn: that wasn t it. it was the one where somebody
on any of the documents that the perry that governor perry signed on that lease. and this is a thing of the past. the governor has a strong record of being exclusive, of being pro jobs for everybody in our state, and we ve seen in the last 24 hours, a lot of folks on both sides of the aisle stand up and say rick perry is a solid, honorable, fair guy who has been has done a good job in the state of texas representing the whole state. megyn: even the white house dame out, jay carney was given the opportunity to comment on it and he said the hunting camp nail was clearly offensive and it was clear to him that governor perry also believed that. what i also was also was interested in is what you thought of h. man cain wearing in on it. this is the season where the candidates try to take advantage of little openings here. i think mr. cain has since