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Tweet There is a quality to real leaders called a “command presence”. You know the type: they walk into a room and by their force of presence, command of the facts, unshaken confidence and leadership qualities, they capture the narrative and control the agenda. That command presence is a necessary mark of a good leader. [...]

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Tweet I’ll let you supply the adjectives.  Suggestions are “wonderful,” “awesome,” “superlative,” “inspiring,” “amusing,” “brave.”  You get my drift: Hat tip:  Hot Air

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Tweet Mmm, mmm, mmm: So far, I can still imagine myself voting for him in 2012.  Maybe on a ticket with Bolton or Petraeus, for some real foreign policy gravitas.  (Although, really, when it comes to foreign policy gravitas, it’s hard to beat Joe Biden, isn’t it?  And yes, I’m being sarcastic.)

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Tweet I like Chris Christie in large part because he is a happy warrior.  He engages in political fights with intelligence, vigor, and a singular lack of animus.  He wades in joyously, and emerges refreshed and happy.  He wants to win, but he takes no joy in his opponent’s destruction, nor does he thrive on [...]

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Tweet If you subscribe to the WSJ, I urge you to read Liberalism and Public Works, which uses Chris Christie’s decision to shut down the tunnel project as a springboard to explain that liberal entitlement programs have destroyed public works programs: To govern is to choose, or ought to be. And the reason New Jersey [...]

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Tweet Cuddling up with a Chris Christie video is better than chocolate.  The first minute and a half of this video is a slightly boring statement about Christie’s decision not to build a tunnel from new Jersey to New York.  Don’t give up, though.  After that wooden intro, the rest is Christie’s usual lucid discussion [...]

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Tweet The same friend who sent me the video below commented that, for conservatives, part of Christie’s enormous appeal is that he is a grown up:  he makes tough decisions, he’s honest, he won’t let the people around him behave like teenagers (and that’s exactly how Leftists behave), he doesn’t care about being popular, and, [...]

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Tweet I was amusing myself imagining a dream candidate, one that would attract a lot of crossover votes.  I came up with this political personality: And this physical image: I would so vote for this man.  Of course, because I’m not quite that shallow, I would vote in a second for Christie even if he [...]

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Tweet At this site I’ve analogized Chris Christie to both meth and porn — he’s that good when it comes to triggering every pleasure center in a conservative’s brain.  What totally distinguishes him from those vices, though, is that he’s good for us.  He’s an honest pleasure, who can and should be enjoyed by as [...]

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Tweet Listening to this man is such a powerful rush, it’s like crack for the conservative brain: Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com

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Tweet I posted earlier today about Great Men, and how they look at the waves heading their way and decide to leap athwart those waves and drive them in certain directions.  Chris Christie is one of those men.  He truly has the capacity for greatness: Please note his sense, his morality, his decency, his coherence, [...]

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