For the last 5 years, we here have been treated to all manner of sound-bites from Governor Christie.

Things like calling columnist Tom Moran thin-skined (which was one of his first and milder ones), to calling out Assemblyman Reid Guscioria “numbnuts”; calling out a heckler on the Seaside boardwalk, a navy seal who tried to interrupt him during a town hall meeting – and more recently his telling a local activist to “sit down and shut up!”

All things we pride ourselves on in New Jersey – blunt, direct, “in your face.”

As the head of the Republican Governor's Association, he's had influence in gaining governorships in some key contests. And as of last night, as least 21 of the 34 candidates he'd backed, ended up winning.

Just today he was asked if he’d tone it down should he decide to run for President, a decision he’ll probably make in the not too distant future.

“No,” Christie said, he wouldn’t do it differently. And “yes,” he can be that way if he decides to run for president in 2016.

“I’m not going to change who I am — not for anybody,” he said, adding, “I’ve got great reactions from people all over this country … (who say) ‘give them hell,’ those are things people say to me.”

Already the sharks are circling. Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky, who's a possible GOP rival, for one, had this to say about Christie's demeanor:

“You know, I grew up in the South, and we are ‘yes, ma’am’ and ‘no, sir’ and a little bit more polite,” Paul said on “Face the Nation.”

“You know what, when he stands up and says things boldly that’s kind of good – he’s not taking any flak. But there can be too much of that, too,” Paul said. “I think there is a resurgence of people who want a little more civility and discourse.”

However, according to the Governor's accounts, he’s run into more people around the country that appreciate his “take no prisoners” attitude. We’re all the same, just speak with different accents.

Paul might have it right. It plays well at first. But in the end, too much of a “good thing” can get old real fast.

And a portion of the electorate might see things that way. It's that portion that's the wildcard.

However, given the past 6 years of being led by a president whose best talents are on the golf course than in the Oval Office, a “180” just might be in order.

It’s just a matter of how things play out in the “flyover!" And below the Delaware Memorial Bridge!

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