Artur Davis: Did Christie Make the Right Choice?

We will know about 13 months from now if he made the right move from the standpoint of his presidential dreams, but his choice seems right for the voters who elected him in 2009.

For some reason, the Christie speculation never focused enough on the fractiousness of New Jersey politics and the disruption and mischief his in-state adversaries would have caused his campaign. Unlike their counterparts in Perry’s Texas, New Jersey’s Democratic legislators have real power and the undoing of Christie would have become their primary obsession. Give Christie credit for knowing this.

As for the race, with Perry imploding and Cain implausible, Romney has one real thing left to fear: the cascade of independent conservative expenditures that are going to link him to tax hikes, and Obamacare, and social liberalism, for a Republican base that still does not know the details of Romney’s Massachusetts record.

(Cross-posted, with permission of the author, from Politico’s Arena)