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August 27, 2012
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Chris Christie, New Jersey’s bombastic, in-your-face governor who will give the RNC keynote speech on Tuesday evening, may not be used to being an opening act but he is perfectly comfortable delivering the red-meat rhetoric that fires up conservative activists.Republican strategist Rich Galen likened Christie’s speech to the tough-talking and highly praised 2008 debut of vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin: “With Christie, you get all the energy of a Sarah Palin speech without all the side issues,” Galen said. “He’ll blow the roof off the place, and that’s what the Romney people are looking for.” Christie said he had no intention of softening his signature sarcastic tone, and had not been asked to do so by Romney’s team. “I don’t think he picked me hoping I would show up and be somebody else,” Christie told reporters in New Jersey. “I don’t think they have any expectation, nor have they requested that I have a personality-economy.”  READ MORE: New Jersey’s Christie has double-edged appeal in keynote speech Photo credit: New Jersey Governor Chris Christie points from the podium as he tours the stage with television news talk show host Joe Scarborough before the start of the opening session of the RNC in Tampa, Florida, August 27, 2012. REUTERS/Mike Segar

Chris Christie, New Jersey’s bombastic, in-your-face governor who will give the RNC keynote speech on Tuesday evening, may not be used to being an opening act but he is perfectly comfortable delivering the red-meat rhetoric that fires up conservative activists.

Republican strategist Rich Galen likened Christie’s speech to the tough-talking and highly praised 2008 debut of vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin: “With Christie, you get all the energy of a Sarah Palin speech without all the side issues,” Galen said. “He’ll blow the roof off the place, and that’s what the Romney people are looking for.” 

Christie said he had no intention of softening his signature sarcastic tone, and had not been asked to do so by Romney’s team. 

“I don’t think he picked me hoping I would show up and be somebody else,” Christie told reporters in New Jersey. “I don’t think they have any expectation, nor have they requested that I have a personality-economy.” 

READ MORE: New Jersey’s Christie has double-edged appeal in keynote speech

Photo credit: New Jersey Governor Chris Christie points from the podium as he tours the stage with television news talk show host Joe Scarborough before the start of the opening session of the RNC in Tampa, Florida, August 27, 2012. REUTERS/Mike Segar

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May 16, 2012
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Video: Chris Christie, Cory Booker do sketch comedy for Jersey press corps

New Jersey’s Republican governor, Chris Christie, and Newark’s Democratic mayor, Cory Booker, joined forces for a comic video they debuted last night at the New Jersey Press Association’s annual Legislative Correspondents Club Show.

The skit plays on Booker’s reputation for valiance (thanks to his famed rescue of a neighbor from fire and for shoveling snow for Newark residents), with Booker edging out Christie on one heroic good deed after another. “Booker!” grumbles Christie each time, echoing Jerry Seinfeld’s aggrieved “Newman!” But there’s one act of heroism only Christie, in the video, can do: join Romney as running mate.