BARBARA BUONO - SACRIFICIAL LAMB?

I've heard "high level" Democrats say that if the Democratic Party really wanted to unseat New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, Barbara Buono would certainly not to be the person picked.  I have to wonder why because her bio sounds very impressive.

She has a long record of positions in the New Jersey legislature rising to being the Majority Leader of the State Senate of  New Jersey from 2010-2011.  Her political career started in 1992 with election to the Muenchen, NJ, Borough Council where she served in 1993 and 1994.  In 1994, she won a seat on the New Jersey Assembly (against an incumbent) where she served for seven years.  Then she served in the New Jersy State Senate being elected in 2001.  She received a JD from Rutgers University in Camden in 1979.  She has a number of firsts being the first woman to be chairman of the Budget and Appropriations Committee and the first woman to serve as Majority Leader.  She was removed from this position after an argument with the President of the State Senate which may be why the Democratic Party lost faith in her.  But since Christie's relationship with the President over Hurricane Sandy was so pleasant, it may have been felt that he deserved another term as governor.  Of course, it may be that Christie's aggressive pursual of Federal support after Hurricane Sandy made him bullet proof even though, on balance, his record has been quite conservative.

For more on Buono's impressive record see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Buono.