Small egos need not apply

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) is being lambasted by some for his
comment that “I already know I could win” if he ran for president, as if
he had uttered, as did the highly entertaining Charlie Sheen, “I’m
tired of pretending like I’m not special. I’m tired of pretending like
I’m not bitchin’, a total freakin’ rock star from Mars.”

Christie’s detractors on this note have it all wrong. At a minimum,
those who run for high office already have a fairly healthy ego, and
many possess an ego so large as to be unhealthy.

That much is pretty much a given. But we are missing the point with Gov. Christie. The sad fact is, too many politicians run for high office, and especially for the presidency, just because they “can” and have evidence (real, manufactured or imaginary) that they could win.

What I like and appreciate about Gov. Christie is that should he decide to throw his hat into the ring (of fire), it would be for the right reasons, and not just because he knows he could win. He might actually be able to offer an agenda and path to fiscal sanity and solvency so desperately needed in Washington, just as he is doing as governor of New Jersey with balancing budgets and attacking deficits.
 
What a novel idea.
 
Imagine that! A candidate for president with a robust ego, but who is not running based on ego. I, for one, am all for it. If presidential candidates develop an ego based on policy successes rather than electoral and campaign successes, meaning, not on getting the job but what they actually do while in the job, then the bigger the ego, the better. It should, in fact, be the GOP’s new higher standard.