Romney is not going to pick Chris Christie to be his running-mate. How do I know? He told me.

Ha! Just kidding. Got you for a second there, didn’t I, Andrea Mitchell? You should have seen the look on your face!

No, I can tell you that Romney is not going to pick Christie because the New Jersey governor does things like host an Iftar dinner for New Jersey Muslims and then use the occasion to call out fellow Republicans for being “bigots” against Muslims. “I’ll tell you,” said Christie, “there is a gaze of intolerance that is going around our country that is disturbing to me.”

Those blunt remarks came almost exactly one year after Christie went after conservatives who think Muslims want to implement Sharia law in U.S. courts. At the time, Christie was being attacked for nominating a Muslim judge to the state superior court. “This Sharia law business is crap,” declared Christie. “It’s just crazy. And I’m tired of dealing with the crazies.”