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The Washington Post’s Jennifer Rubin takes up the cri de coeur of New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R), who, despite his conspicuous displays for Romney, which materialized virtually the day after the Bush-family coup to displace Romney with Christie fell apart, is really running for president himself in 2016. It is dispiriting that none of the GOP presidential candidates can hold a room like Christie, she says: “But perhaps the winner will go to him at the end of a long, bloody campaign and say, ‘I need you. The party needs you. The country needs you.’ And if he accepts, then whatever the outcome of the presidential race, Republicans would have something to cheer and an extraordinary politician to watch.”

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