Pop quiz.What do Washington, D.C and Nashville, Tennessee have in common?
Answer in a moment.
This whole "will Chris Christie run?" thing has, today, reached it's most recent conclusion. (Truthfully, if flip flop was a political liability "pre-running" this guy would be finished before he got out of the gate).
He's not running.
The real "sub-plot" of this whole "will or won't he" thing, though, is being, in large part, overlooked.
The Republican candidate field isn't lacking in numbers. From Romney to Perry to Huntsman to Cain (on Bachmann, Santorum and Donner and Blitzen), the stage seems to have more bodies than the audience at the debates to date.
The field, though, apparently hasn't popped up a stand out.
And the Christie clamor is the best proof that their very best seems to be a choice between fair to middlin and don't do nothin' for us.
Doesn't take a political science major to tell us that doesn't bode well for the Grand Old Party animals.
And the whole thing wafts me back to my Nashville songwriter days.
Many the times, I brought a tape of my three very best, out of the box sure thing hits to this publisher or that producer, ready to be hailed as the next big thing and see my material snatched up like a bottle of Evian on a Texas prairie summer day, only to hear, after all three uberhits had been auditioned, the phrase that any songwriter who has dared to bare has hoped and prayed they wouldn't hear.
I heard it a lot.
And,now, the Republican Party seems have found a use for it as well.
With a roster of candidates both tried and true, both veteran and new, the GOP is still turning its lonely eyes in other directions.
And, with Chris Christie as the most recent and obvious example, Washington D.C. and Nashville, Tennessee now seem to have found some commonality, in their respective applications of the phrase that pays...
"What else ya got?"
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