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Subscribe to RSSRepublican presidential candidate Mitt Romney said at St. Anselm College in New Hampshire Wednesday that it would be "fun" if New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie also runs for the Republican nomination for president.
MANCHESTER, N.H. -- Mitt Romney welcomed the potential entry of New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie into the GOP race for the White House, saying "it will be fun" if he gets in, and added he'd be on a "long list" for his vice-presidential picks.
"Chris is a great friend," Romney told reporters after a town-hall meeting here at Saint Anselm College today. "Great guy, colorful character. He is a governor I'd love to see in more political settings, and who knows, maybe he'll get in. It will be fun if he got in."
Romney hailed Christie as a "remarkable leader in the Republican Party," but stopped short of inviting him aboard a potential Romney presidential ticket, saying it would be "presumptuous" to discuss vice-presidential prospects. Less than a minute later, Romney acknowledged Christie would make his list of options.
"There's a long list of people who would be considered for such a thing, but anyone would have to look at the governor of New Jersey as being a remarkable leader in the Republican Party," said Romney.
In the town hall of 250 people -- with his oversized debt clock as a backdrop -- Romney addressed perceptions and concerns that he is "a flip flopper."
"In the private sector," he said, "if you don't change your view when the facts change, well you'll get fired for being stubborn and stupid. Winston Churchill said, 'When the facts change I change too, Madam." What do you do?"
That's different from what he said a week ago, when he said he doesn't change positions.
The American people "can tell when people are being phony and are pandering to an audience," he said, "and you’ll see that in politics. You’re not going to see that in my campaign."
Romney did not address exactly which facts have changed, but has given responses on climate change this cycle.
Today he said, "I think the planet's getting warmer. I think we contribute to that -- could be a lot, could be a little."
Earlier this summer, however, he seemed to cast doubt on humans' impact: "Do I think the world's getting hotter? Yeah, I don't know that, but I think that it is. I don't know if it's mostly caused by humans."
Also today, the former Massachusetts governor also seized on David Axelrod's description of a "titanic struggle" ahead for President Obama's reelection campaign in 2012, made in the exact same venue just yesterday.
"A titanic struggle? How appropriate an adjective that is," Romney told voters. "The captain of the ship has been inattentive, otherwise occupied or asleep for most of the voyage. It's going to sink!"
Romney also casually mentioned new policies to alleviate educational costs for graduates who go into public service.
"We ought to help those people particularly, who, after college, decide to become involved in teaching or serving in our military or serving in our communities in important ways," he said. "Perhaps a very different interest rate" for those who go into those fields.
Romney will also be raising money in Boston today.
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sorry DUDE, it's not happening. It's too late to turn back now.
" It's too late to turn back now. "
Do the Corneilius Brothers and Sister Rose know you cabbaged this line?
The water level in the pool is sure getting low - you've got Christie belly flopping & Willard flip flopping!
Will someone get a hose?
The video was put together by Alex Trowbridge. But pointing to it was a way for Christie to not have to give a current version of "no."
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Romney must have invested in hip waders.
What a prime time bs'er.
Is this a singles chat line or presidential primary?
Funny. Well at least Romney's not completely anti-science, just a little.
Ah, and speaking of science - turns out the EPA doesn't even follow it's own protocols and guidelines for it's rules.
Oh, and it also farms out all the heavy lifting to the IPCC. That report from the inspector General is just fantastic.
How odd that the entire global warming/green energy thing-y is un-raveling all at once.
Obama and the EPA are just that, um, good.
I especially liked the part where the devices they used to measure carbon were manufactured specifically not to measure carbon.
Onl the government could possibly even try to pull something as stupid as that.
Still, the oceans continue to rise.
With you , or without you.
But of.
[How odd that the entire global warming/green energy thing-y is un-raveling all at once.]
You disappoint once again, "counselor"...you forgot to mention the CERN study...or did you give up that talking point so soon?
...Spanky...always striving for adequacy...
Ah Richard - have you not gotten the memo?
Sea levels have been going down.
Obama promised he make them recede, and gosh darn it he done delivered.
In fact it looks like he has single handily make the whole global warming thing-y go away.
He's fantastic.
If raising 1.5 centimeters a year means 'going down',
then, hip waders are a good investment from gold.
Sure Mitt, I don't buy your fained sarcasm - you really don't want Christie in the race...
micky- still attempting to be relevent
Romney 2012 - "I'm no worse than Obama, and much better looking than Christie, so layoff!"
I know, too wordy, and it won't fit on a bumper sticker.
That, and I'm pretty sure "layoff" is the very last word Romney would want to campaign with right now.
Any repub candidate's bumper sticker .....
It Is Worse, Dummy
Fun like a tooth canal. Romney, why don't they love you as much as YOU love you?
Great point there Clara Bell.
Say, that might be an excellent question to pose to Obama.
It doesn't seem like Reid loves him so much, what delaying the super important jobs bill and all.
And say Clara Bell, where'd that Buffet tax go off to? Did one of Obama's unicorns eat the bill?
I hear them unicorns are mighty expensive to keep around. Wrecked old Solyndra, and they had a magic unicorn corral tended to by green fairies.
Fantasize will get you just that.
Another 'golden' dream.
correction:
Fantasy will get you just that.
Another 'golden dream'.
It's the eunuchs that can never have a 'happy ending'.
It's ok Richard - they still have the golden shower option.
But I like the way you think - Solyndra was a green wet dream/fantasy gone horrible, yet predictably wrong.
Isn't it funny how all "green" loans and guarantees are getting extra special scrutiny? No way they can withstand even cursory scrutiny.
Like I said - Obama has single handily wrecked team green.
To him I say well played sir, well played. To ALGORE I say - later gator. Game, set, match.
Cursory scrutiny is a trim job, these days.
I hear you can get that done for you in Cancun.
Sustainability requires the higher organ above the brain stem.
Well, look who's still at crabbing about Omama this afternoon!
Hi, there, Smiffy. What would be a good bumper sticker for, say, Bachmann?
"NObama" is the perfect bumper sticker for any GOP candidate.
Obama = failure.
Golly Drive By, and sure all he does anymore is campaign, but Obama is still the President, right?
So of course we will all just keep right on talking about him. At least until the election, or he quits.
For Bachmann? Why she's like all the candidates that ran in 08 that didn't make the cut. There were several, on both sides.
So, what was your point again Drive By?
Again, before you spew, perhaps you might want to pause just a second and ask yourself: "self, does this little jape apply to me and mine?"
And had you done that, you know what you would have said to your self?
"Why, yes, yes it sure does."
Too funny Drive By - now off to that 5 bed, 3 bath, 5 car garage on 100 acres estate you got.
Man, that's a lot of weeding.
It would be fun...? is this all just a game to you
until the nominating convention it is a game, it won't get serious until one presidential candidate becomes the nominee and goes one on one against obama.
One campaigner against another campaigner. It would have been more interesting if it was one campaigner against one POTUS.
Right American,
As I told my kids years ago. this is the greatest show on Earth, it's every four years, and it's free admission.
Love it when the mudslinging starts. Great entertainment.
Watch the ads around this Christmas. Watch as the people who have no job and no hope try to act cheerful and happy around their kids that need new shoes and a new coat.
Hell, even Thanksgiving can be politicized if we work at it. That would be a super time for Obama and Moochelle to take a super-luxury vacation to somewhere warm, where they have little umbrellas in your cocktails. That would make great copy for a political ad.
Last week Perry. Last month Bachman. This week Christie. Just face the facts, they all suck.