Josh Barro, Columnist

Romney and Christie's Hard Truth Problem

August 29, 2012 at 3:15 AM UTC

Josh Barro is the lead writer for the Ticker, Bloomberg View's blog on economics, finance and politics. His primary areas of interest include tax and fiscal policy, state and local government, and planning and land use. Previously, Barro was a Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research and a commercial real estate banker at Wells Fargo. He holds a bachelor's degree in psychology from Harvard and lives in Queens, New York.

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The theme of Chris Christie’s Republican National Convention keynote address tonight was “hard truths.” The hard truths Chris Christie’s mother told, the ones he has told as governor of New Jersey, and the ones he says Mitt Romney will tell if elected president.

But sometimes, when telling the hard truth is especially hard, Chris Christie dissembles.