Whay's so gutsy about it? Assuming he does have presidential aspirations, what good does it do him to kowtow to the right wing in a fashion that guarantees that if he wins the nomination he'll lose the election?
Because Christie is trying to sound bipartisan and moderate when he is neither of those descriptions. Did everyone just suddenly forget how this guy was before Sandy? He wasn't even close to being bipartisan and it was pretty much agreed that we was to the right of Romney as a pretty traditional union-busting Republican.