Christie condemns NRA ad that invoked President's children

[Small Business Owner of Any Repute]

Christie has been on fire lately. Good for him. We need someone visible in politics like him.

[Small Business Owner of Any Repute]

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?

It's always gutsy to be the one guy who takes a stand. There's always safety in numbers, but little solo. Not saying that he's not playing some serious political chess here, but he's still a damn gutsy player.

[Small Business Owner of Any Repute]

I don't know where you saw this apparent consensus that he was a "traditional union-busting Republican" (which I assume would be along the lines of Walker/Kasich/etc), but I don't think it was here. In my opinion, Christie is more or less a moderate Republican in the same way that Huntsman is seen as one. Fiscally conservative (but not extreme), realistic foreign policy views, socially moderate (civil unions, environment, drug war, etc), and has a desire to work with Democrats in order to help his state over helping his party.

Christie is always going knuckle-to-knuckle with the state teachers' unions, specifically. But what else is new? Every GOP New Jersey governor seems to run afoul of the NJEA at some point.