I kind of don’t understand all the mechinations of the Chris Christie “Special Election date“.  He picked out October 2013 instead of November 2013.  Apparently to get it over with.  Because the Democrat, one Cory Booker, is expected to thump by a massive margin.  And if he had gone with November 2013, it might eat into his race, where he is expected to thump by a massive margin.  The same double dealing works with the Democrat, and is the reason that the November 2014 date would give the Republican some seniority to take on Chris Christie…

… though earlier speculation suggested that a November 2013 date might eat into Booker’s margin and give the Republican — sharing as he is the Chris Chrisitie ballot — a fighting chance.

All of which is to suggest some overthinking.  Either Chris Christie woule be sending Cory Booker’s 30 point margin spiraling down to a 20 point margin or Cory Booker would be sending Chris Christie’s 30 point margin spiraling down to a 20 point margin.

All of which is moot now.  We have an expensive primary race and an expensive general election, to proceed the regular November elections, with a nonsensical justification from Chris Christie.

The decision to hold a general election in October comes with a price tag approaching $25 million because every statewide election in New Jersey costs more than $12 million to execute, and the two parties will hold primaries before the election. Christie tried to head off criticism of the expense. “I don’t know what the cost is and I, quite frankly, don’t care,” Christie said yesterday. “I don’t think you can put a price tag on what it’s worth to have an elected person in the United States Senate and I will do whatever I need to do to make sure those costs are covered because all the people of the state of New Jersey will benefit from it and we’re not going to be penny-wise and pound-foolish around here.”

And we have that “How does this position Chris Christie for 2016?” question looming about.  (As soon as Republicans realize the ‘coalition with Obama” is pretty minimal — as Obama slides out of focus as “Figure to direct all political hate” — and that Chris Christie’s been an effectively conservative Governor, that may be enough to lose his RINO tag.  We’ll see.  He is the one person thrown out there that I can’t quite say “Will Never Be President”, unlike Rand Paul or Ted Cruz.)

And we have that weird spectacle of political figures, see Booker, who had previously given off barbed barely concealed insults at Lautenberg now praising him to the hilt as an inspiration.  It’s, I guess, what happens.

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