so if you re rick santorum you have to think, okay this time around there is also room for a social conservative and now he s got to compete with mike huckabee ted cruz and he knows there is probably room for someone like him. he s just got to sort of clear the field and get through. so i think it s bizarre to dismiss last year s runner up as so many liberals and conservatives do. i think it s a mistake. ellis, chris christie seems to be checking all those boxes. he ditched common core this week. he spoke out against the president, visavy israel and what i m thinking of is that you check all those boxes and that is great you appeal to the gop base and in the end you put yourself in a worse spot for a general election. you re absolutely right. it may not be the most furtm m fertile
territory for chris christie. i go back to the rule of fractions that i learned at holy name of jesus. when you have so many people in this race it doesn t take a very big slice to have the largest slice. so you can find that a lot of different places. the odd thing at the moment is that the super conservative side of the eequation is pretty crowded and that middle zone where chris christie would have normally have played is not so crowded. so frankly, i m not so smart it is smart for him to outconserve the conservatives. jeb is the one who stand to gain from all of this. i think christie has a clear strategy as we re learning it. that is to take on the opposition and his party viavy and he can take on common core and that is a slap at jeb bush without saying his name. he can take on the president and israel and that s really actually a subtle slap at rand