Kissinger Supports Chris Christie for President By Elisha Maldonado, political reporter | September 29, 2011 3:36 PM EDT With the urging of George W. Bush, Henry Kissinger and Nancy Reagan, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, in what is beginning to feel rather like Groundhog Day, is said to be giving serious thought to jumping into the GOP presidential ring, the New York Post reported. And the announcement may come as soon as Monday, according to sources close to Christie. The New Jersey governor has vowed many times that he won't be running for president in 2012. Last year he even went this far to say it: "Short of suicide, I don't really know what I'd have to do to convince you people that I'm not running. I'm not running!" But the encouragement of Kissinger, Bush and Reagan, is said to have him thinking he might change his mind. Even Christie's wife, Mary Pat, has been warming to the idea of a presidential run. "It's more than just flattering," a source close to Christie said, adding that he has the ability not only to be president, but to win it. According to the Post, something also changed the night Christie gave a speech at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, Calif., Tuesday night. "We need you. Your country needs you to run for president," one woman pleaded after Christie's speech. Christie's father, Bill Christie, stirred the pot a little Wednesday when he told the National Review Online that he thought his son would be able to win the White House. "He has always been a leader," the elder Christie said. "I think he would beat Obama." But Todd Christie, the governor's brother, said a Tuesday that run was out of the question. "If he's lying to me, I'll be as stunned as I've even been in my life," he told the Newark Star-Ledger. Former New Jersey Gov. Tom Kean, a Sept. 11 commission co-chairman who has reportedly known Christie since he was a teenager, stoked the rumor mill, too, Monday when he told The National Review Online that "the odds are a lot better now than they