[img]1|left|Ari Noonan||no_popup[/img]You will hear her name dropped oftener than that of your children during the next six months, but neither Sarah Palin nor I will run for President on the GOP or the Tea Party tickets in ’12.
As a lone Western voice in the bewilderedness, I tout for your inspection Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey or Nikki Haley, whom I believe will be elected the governor of South Carolina six weeks from Tuesday as the golden GOP/Tea candidates for the ’12 White House nomination.
They are good. They are exciting.
Mr. Christie and Ms. Haley are fresh-faced, straight-talking, and intellectually as grounded and solid as the Lincoln Memorial. Both have defeated discouraging odds.
A giant of a man with a wicked backhanded sense of humor, Mr. Christie is thrilling to watch in YouTube videos that flooded the internet since he was elected last autumn. Observing him addressing any random audience is as energizing and uplifting as watching a brilliant rhetorician or an imaginative new entertainer.
Rhetorically, with class and élan, he spits into the befogged eyes of crybaby union thugs. Summarily and repeatedly, he has spanked the spoiled brats and sent them to bed without their dinners.
He Is Sui Generis
You have not seen anyone like him.
He is doing what the upcoming Tea Partiers in his wake have been stridently promising for the last year — fiscal responsibility, slapping unionists in the cheeks and telling them, “Boys and girls, this is the way it is going to be — today, not at some remote, forgettable date in the future.”
New Jersey teachers unions are overflowing with cerebral mushies, Whores for Obama who seethingly hate him. Grow up and join the world, he recently told the unionists. Months ago, these lamblike loons were publicly praying for him to die.
Accustomed to being coddled like our grandchildren — the oldest of whom is four — the unionists tantrummed when Mr. Christie told them: “Boys, this is the way it is. You will need to contribute 1.5 percent of your salary to your healthcare benefits.”
Let the Fun Begin
Being mature unionists, they retorted: “This is the greatest assault on public education in the history of New Jersey.”
Do your heart and confidence in an Obama-sagging America a favor this afternoon:
Watch just one Christie video (it is like starting a bag of potato chips) (http://www.nationalreview.com/).
I guarantee you will be talking about him at dinner tonight — unless you are like me and will be hurrying off to synagogue for the start of Yom Kippur and the beginning of my favorite 27-hour fast of the year.
To characterize Mr. Christie and the mentally muscular Ms. Haley a little differently, they represent grown-up versions of Christine O’Donnell in Delaware and Sharron Angle in Nevada.
I expect to make a different assessment of Ms. McDonnell a month from today when she will be one month smarter and one month more sophisticated. I believe she will win Joe Biden’s old seat and that Ms. Angle will lose to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.