A warning to New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie: as you continue to do what increasingly seems to be a Republican Mario Cuomo imitation, if you are serious about cannonballing into the 2012 Republican Presidential nomination candidate pool be fowarned: the Republican Party’s kingmaker real strategist favorite talk show host Rush Limbuagh has started to voice some reservations about you and suggests you’re sounding a bit John McCain-ish (referring to the 2000 version of John McCain, not the harder right version that ran for President in 2008).
This means you have to go on Rush’s show, re-arrange your views, or suffer the fate of other GOPers that seriously disagreed with Limbaugh, or at least did not pay proper homage to him. For the 2012 Republican Presidential nomination, only dittoheads need apply.
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.