Meet their backyard backstabbers (Possible 2012 Republican presidential candidates)

After dazzling an audience of Washington insiders with a speech Wednesday, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is the toast of the Republican Party, a political luminary whose star shines so brightly that no one actually believes him when he says unequivocally he’s not running for president. Yet to Steve Lonegan, Christie is just another hack — and a wildly overrated one at that. “He has been a big disappointment to conservatives in New Jersey,” said Lonegan, the former Bogota mayor who lost to Christie in the 2009 GOP primary but campaigned for him in the general election. Lonegan, now director...