Who is Chris Christie?

You'll find an interesting and informative piece about New Jersey Republican Governor Chris Christie over at today's National Review Online. It's a bit long, but worth it if you're interested in how an unapologetic low-tax, small-government conservative can administrate effectively in an otherwise very liberal state without abandoning principle.

My favorite passage:

Not even those closest to Christie know whether he plans to run for a second term, but one of his great strengths is that he governs as if he won’t. He has claimed, with the ring of truth, that he pays no attention to his roller-coaster public approval ratings — that to him, the only poll that mattered was the one that installed him as Jon Corzine’s successor in November of 2009. This philosophy is not Republican, but republican: He sees himself as a representative of the people who nevertheless refuses to pander to them, to recalibrate his stances at their every perturbation.