Have Republicans forgiven him for being civil to President Obama?

MAGA is far to radically extreme in choice of Candidate quality.

Naah, he was the brash populist template for Trump, only to be passed by for that deranged caricature of a clownish charlatan with fascistic aspirations and badly coifed hair.
Adrenalin waning but still looking for that fix, Christie now seems like a bowl of lukewarm porridge to the R base.

Sad, because other than that bridge nonsense play, he would have had my vote.

Yet, you guys pilloried him a few years ago when he was running for office for not believing in the rule of law.

Double standards apply...

Always

You mean the fears of him being a populist followed by "on the other hand, so what, not like he's some far right nutter" (like certain other people)? Yeah, how'd the GOPers turn out for him for 2016?
Oh?

Double standards like with another potential populist, Ron Paul, who was literally laughed at by the rest of the GOPer losers on the debate stage in 2008, only for us to see his douche of a backpedaling wussbag son, Rand, get praised for being his father's son by them?

Same with George HW Bush SR - whom even diphead Reagan wouldn't even hint at endorsing till AFTER he won the primaries in 2008, and the base, chiding him, opted for Perot and Clinton (Bill - that's Hillary's husband) instead (same as they - the GOPers did to Dole in 96) in 92 yet praised his double digit doofuss of a pea brained son, W, for being HIS father's son?

Yes, Christie got hammered on the George Washington lane closure fiasco and rightly so, but other than that, it was his own party that left him out in the rain.

Double standards indeed. Republican style.

Like it or not MAGA moles, he appears to be running.

So he has your vote..

yup... just no belief in toll booths and public employee pensions... LOL