Goodbye, Mister Chips

Poor Chris Christie. He hasn't been mentioned in this blog for months. Or in very few other media outlets. Not that I aspire to the Associated Press, but  the carnival that is the race for  the Republican Presidential Nomination has its main drag and its side shows. I leave it to you to figure out who the bearded lady is. Currently, Chris Christie is hanging  on to his spot on the edge of the spotlight, still sitting at the grown-up's table, if I can introduce yet another metaphor here. He's trying to keep his place on the big stage, but the odds are against him. Part of the problem could be that he just isn't crazy enough.
That may be why he chose, scant days before the Iowa Caucus, to go on what we have become familiar with as "the offensive." While not nearly as offensive as the petulance tossed around by the Dark Lord of Sith, Trump Vader, the governor of New Jersey let loose with a rant that he hoped might bring him the attention and votes he believes he so desperately needs. He went after Senators Rubio and Cruz, insisting that those two "have never run anything in their life."  That's because they are senators, and they work in the United States Senate, which Governor Christie compared to an elementary school. An elementary school where they tell everyone when to show up, where to sit, and they take  recess. Do we really want the first executive position for these bozos  to have be the Presidency of the United States?
That last bit was supposed to be a rhetorical question, I think. It should be noted that there have been sixteen senators who have become President of the United States. Many of them served as Vice President first,  but there were three of those who went directly from the Senate to the White House: Warren G.  Harding, John F. Kennedy, and Barack Obama. One of  those guys was a Republican. Seventeen previous presidents got their starts as governor of one of these United States.
Five presidents were previously teachers, six if you include that stint Obama had as a professor of constitutional law. And here's what I can tell you: I can't imagine an occupation that would better serve our  next president of the United States. I think it's important for everyone to have a place to sit, and if you have to go to the bathroom,  make sure you  take a pass. Good luck on that one, Mister Christie.