Chris Christie Is Not Alone

Chris Christie has been on a media blitz to showcase his tough apporach to NJ's problems and public sector union intransigience/nuttiness. Well, I have highlighted a guy who I think is a Christie mini-me, who is trying toturn around a county government that is smaller than NJ, but actually quite large in the aggregate. Check out Rob Astorino's message in his "State of the County" address. Sounds alot like Christie. While the media are trying to portray Christie as a lone wolf, a rogue idealogue, the truth is that the voter demand for someone like Christie is intense. Bob McDonnell and Rob Astorino are evidence of this, and there will be more to come. Hopefully, this kind of talk will not seem odd in the years to come, and we'll be looking askance at politicians who don't talk fiscal sanity and prudence.