The anti-Christie party of the Tea Party

By Michael J.W. Stickings 

Dana Milbank (@Milbank) tweeted at 10:36 PM on Tue, Jan 08, 2013: 

Tea Party members down to 8 percent, Chris Christie approval up to 73 percent. (link)

And yet the Republican Party is more and more the party of the Tea Party and its right-wing extremist ilk, while Christie is persona non grata, a traitor to the Republican cause.

I think that explains something.