horse of george

Actually, rethinking the Christie 'problem' of his personality being too big and therefore possibly overshadowing Romney should he be the VP choice - rethinking that, one could argue that such a thing might prove advantageous - if Christie's doing the 'big' media pleasing, crowd rousing stuff that frees Romney to do the thing he's much more comfortable with - calm, serious, professional - the straight man, as it were. Whereas if Portman is the choice Romney will have to do the crowd rousing, media beguiling stuff since Portman is a virtual clone of Romney - so in this sense you can see that choosing Christie might be the clever choice. I have to hear Ayotte speak some more before making a decision on that. And I'm thinking now Portman should only be the choice if polls clearly indicate he can deliver Ohio - people seem to want to believe that Portman would emphasize Romney's positives [serious, professional etc etc], but the above argument would suggest a Christie would allow Romney to do himself what you would be asking a Portman to do. Yeah - unless polls indicate Portman can make a difference in Ohio I'm starting to think as a redundant choice he'd draw more attention to Romney's weaknesses than his strengths, contrary to what pundits are imagining.