"There are the flashes of self-deprecation (“You didn’t elect me for my good looks and charm”). The Jersey guy routine (“If today is the day you decided that you want to take your governor out for a walk, let me remind you that we are all from New Jersey, and if you give it, you are getting it right back”).
He will acidly insult Democrats, and then offer humanizing glimpses of his bond with his late mother (“Be yourself, Christopher, because if you are, you are never going to have to worry tomorrow about remembering who you pretended to be yesterday”).
It is a performance so disciplined that you can predict the moment — just before he takes the first question — when Mr. Christie will strip off his suit jacket and toss it to an aide, who disappears behind a curtain.
There are any number of reasons Mr. Christie was not going to be Mitt Romney’s vice-presidential pick: his state’s unemployment rate is among the highest in the nation, his occasional off-the-cuff outbursts have caused many voters to brand him a bully, and even he jokes that his girth is not made for television.
But few would deny that he is a masterly speaker, and the ideal one to deliver the keynote speech at the Republican National Convention, the first at which the establishment will join the Tea Party insurgents who have both lifted the party and thrown it for a loop.
Mr. Christie, a former United States attorney appointed by George W. Bush, comes from the establishment. But no politician speaks the unvarnished vernacular of the Tea Party better — pointing fingers at public sector unions, speaking of the need to make what he calls “the hard choices.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/28/us/politics/christie-a-masterly-speaker-and-tea-party-pleaser.html?_r=1&nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_20120828
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