this. you wonder if the speech episode is just him washing his hands of the whole thing. you have to wonder what he's thinking himself looking at the numbers and how much he cares about trying to resuscitate his own image. if he was trying to be a guy on the make again, having aims at national office, you'd probably be pretty careful about the optics of anything that you do and it was interesting the photographer that took the. ic tours wrote in on account in "the star ledger" what happened and he was pretty sure christie saw him, he made eye contact and he still went out later and said no, that never happened. so it's an interesting mind-set for him and you wonder at what point he maybe decided i'm heading towards the end of my career politically at least and it's not about trying to do traditional politician things >> that was a few weeks or months ago based on the pictures, clearly not concerned about optics. ron brownstein shifting gears politically speaking to the