Um, why? What is it about Christie's ideology or positions on issues, or anything other than his superficial reputation that makes him interesting as anything other than entertainment?

This is a guy who was an utter political failure until fundraising efforts for Dubya got him his prosecutor appointment. He's dithered around in office, not accomplishing much beyond some post-Sandy photo-ops. He squandered opportunities to fix the state Supreme Court, without which we're never going to get any real reforms on the property taxes, and he keeps kissing the rings of the urban politicos, which suggests there's no hope for any fix on the Abbott districts sucking up the property taxes from the rest of the state. Are we looking for a Christie administration to save the country from Obamacare, when he couldn't even be bothered to add NJ to the states in the lawsuit against it?

Even his reelection has severely undermined his appeal as a candidate. From his self-promoting speech at the convention in 2012 which many saw as the GOP throwing in the towel on Romney, at least until the first debate, to his nominations & appointments of Democrat cronies instead of getting conservatives or Republicans into positions they could use as an electoral springboard (like Bush did for Christie himself), up to his selfish isolation of Lonegan in the special election to keep his own ticket clear of Booker, at a cost of several million dollars to the taxpayers. And despite his throwing Lonegan to the wolves to keep Booker off the ballot on election day, Christie still proved to have no coattails. Despite his own lopsided win, the next session of the legislature is going to be just as Democratic as it is now.

Sure Christie is entertaining, and willing to poke fun at himself on SNL, but so was Al Gore. Not exactly the footsteps you want to be following as a presidential nominee, is he?