There’s one parable that explains nearly everything there is to understand about human begins, the parable of the scorpion and the frog. People do what is in their nature. If it’s in someone’s to screw around, that someone will keep screwing around when they’re president (not that there’s anything wrong with that). If it’s in someone’s nature to be a fratty fuck-up, that someone will be a fratty fuck-up when they’re president (there is something wrong with that, IMHO).
Maybe more importantly, whatever shitty thing you know for sure someone did once, that someone has done it a hundred times. You can take that to the bank.
If it’s in someone’s nature to be dangerously vindictive, that someone will continue to be dangerously vindictive while running for president, and moreover, the examples of that person being dangerously vindictive will not be isolated. So I think Chris Christie won’t make it through the Republican primary:
It was merely a mistake, he said, or rather, “a mistake got made.” The article that said he had called Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo of New York to complain that the controversy was getting too much attention? “The story was wrong.” The resignation yesterday, by the man at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which controls the bridge? “This was a change I was going to make anyway,” Mr. Christie said.
But to explain that it was not such a big deal, the governor spent more than an hour of his time. And he said he had watched “most of” the hearing this week that laid out the details of the closings — a hearing that had stretched for more than six hours.
Mr. Christie said, “I’ve heard more about this than I ever wanted to,” and said he had better ways of spending Friday mornings than talking for an hour about traffic studies and road closings. Still, at the end of the news conference, in which he named a former prosecutor and close aide of his, Deborah Gramiccioni, to Mr. Baroni’s post, Mr. Christie suggested it might be worth examining why Fort Lee should have local access lanes.
Notice that he ends with more vindictive threats.
Yes, we’re living in an era of complete conservative domination of the media. Normally Christie’s sorry ass would be deader than fucking fried chicken by now, but he happened to pull this shit while we’re in a transitional period.
But there will be dozens of other stories like this, and together they will be enough to sink Christie, just as the Romney people thought when they vetted him for VP.