Why would any principled voter stay home?
I've never stayed home, and I've never voted anything but "R". But I don't know WTF I'd do if 2016 pres nominees were hillary vs cristie. She's more of a conservative republican than he is. Vote for her? Vote for the flaming liberal with the "R" beside his name? Stay home? What would you do?
I really don't think we will be faced with that choice. That would one of the worse of the worse scenarios.
But if...
As Governor of a deep blue state, Christie delivered his required balanced budgets and a
very mixed bag of tax cuts and state pension reform bills, cutting some government programs;a
very mixed message on gun control, illegal immigration and so on...he is now pro-life.
Hillary has never been a Governor.
She would run the government about as well as she did the State Dept...she has always been pro-choice and pro-gun control.