From McKay Coppins at BuzzFeed:
But after a brutal year of setbacks, scandals, and political floundering capped this month by a controversy that threatens to sink New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s political career, the Republican establishment is warily scanning its bruised and bloodied field of potential 2016 standard-bearers — and many of the party poobahs are on the brink of panic.
In interviews with more than a dozen party officials, fundraisers, and strategists in New York and Washington over the past 10 days, Republicans described a palpable sense of anxiety gripping the GOP establishment in the wake of Christie’s meltdown, and an emerging consensus that the once promising cast of candidates they were counting on to save the GOP from the tea party — and the nation from Hillary Clinton — is looking less formidable by the week.
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In fact, it’s gotten so bad, the operative said, that some donors have started looking back fondly on the good old days of 2012: “You know what a lot of them say to me? I think we need Mitt back.”
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It makes sense that Christie's downfall would spell trouble for the Republican Party establishment types. Christie, is, after all, Karl Rove's chosen one. From an article this past Sunday in the National Review:
Karl Rove said this morning on Fox News Sunday that Chris Christie’s handling of the Port Authority traffic scandal has been so honest and forthright that it ”probably gives him some street cred with tea-party Republicans.”
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