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Romney: Christie 'Could Easily Become Our Nominee and Save Our Party’ [barf alert]
CNS News ^ | 11/3/2013 | Terence P. Jeffrey

Posted on 11/03/2013 6:55:45 PM PST by markomalley

Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, who lost the 2012 election to President Barack Obama, said on NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday that he believed New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie could “easily” become the GOP presidential nominee in 2016 and “save our party.”

Christie most recently made national news when he decided to drop a legal challenge to rulings in New Jersey state courts that declared same-sex marriage legal there. And not long before that, he changed his position on the question of whether illegal aliens should get in-state tuition rates at New Jersey state colleges. Now he backs legislation that would give that privilege to illegal aliens.

These two moves won Christie a recent article from the Los Angeles Times that described him as having "staked his place near the political middle ground."

Romney’s statement that Christie could “save our party” came even as Time Magazine’s website published an excerpt from the upcoming book “Double Down: Game Change 2012” by Mark Halperin and John Heilemann, that was featured above the masthead on the Drudge Report, and that describes a Republican vice presidential vetting process that resulted in Romney himself deciding not choosing Christie as his vice presidential running mate.

“Meet the Press” host David Gregory on Sunday asked Romney about the revelations in this book.

“Well, I know that the vetting people who went through that analysis and put together their report laid everything out,” Romney told Gregory, according to NBC’s transcript of the program. “But, frankly, there was nothing they found that wasn't already part of the public record and that hadn't already been dealt with effectively by Chris Christie. So there was nothing new there.”

A moment later, Romney  said: “Chris, by the way, could easily become our nominee and save our party and help get this nation on the right track again. They don't come better than Chris Christie.”

“Look, I know that the Democrats will try and go after him, if he's our nominee, in every way they can,” said Romney. “But you can't argue with the kind of success he's had. He's been a governor, he's about to win I think on Tuesday pretty solidly, and his record as governor really stands out. I mean, New Jersey, after all, is a very blue state. He's a very popular governor in a very blue state; that's the kind of popularity and the kind of track record the Republican Party needs if we're going to take back the White House.”

Gregory asked Romney if he thought Christie was the “odds-on-favorite” to be the Republican presidential nominee in 2016.

“Well, I think it's kind of early to say who's the most electable and who would be the most effective candidate,” said Romney. “But at this stage, you look at Chris Christie and say, That's a very impressive guy, with a great track record, with a demonstrated ability to work across the aisle, with support of labor and blue-collar voters in New Jersey. It's a pretty compelling story. And there are some other very compelling stories: Paul Ryan, Jeb Bush, Marco Rubio.

“I mean, there's a long list of very capable people,” said Romney. “But Chris Christie stands out as one of the very strongest lights in the Republican Party.”

When pushed, Romney said he was “not going to disqualify” Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas, whom he had omitted from his list of possible Republican candidates with “very compelling stories.”

“Does Ted Cruz stand out to you as a potential light of the Republican Party?” asked Gregory.

“I'm not going to disqualify anybody,” said Romney. :But I think I've indicated some of the names that I think are most effective in becoming elected, and we'll see where it goes.”


TOPICS: Extended News; Politics/Elections; US: Kentucky; US: New Jersey; US: Texas
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To: markomalley

I wouldn’t vote for that loud mouth socialist sack of blubber if you put a gun t my head.


41 posted on 11/03/2013 7:10:47 PM PST by dalereed
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To: markomalley

I’m not even sure we will have elections in 2016.


42 posted on 11/03/2013 7:11:00 PM PST by philetus (Keep doing what you always do and you'll eventually get what you deserve)
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To: EEGator

I can’t even stand to look at him on the sidelines, he just looks like a total buffoon.

I probably going to root for the old Head Ball Coach when they play them....I’d rather see South Carolina win the East....and if it puts the nail in Muschamp’s coffin, all the better.


43 posted on 11/03/2013 7:11:04 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: markomalley
I happen to think Romney is right. Christie is exactly what the GOPE is salivating to nominate. Then as I have said before, he can lose like Romney. Lose like McCain, And lose like Dole.
That to them will be a wonderful thing.
44 posted on 11/03/2013 7:11:50 PM PST by Tupelo ( Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. An old Republican Tradition.)
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To: dfwgator

Agreed.


45 posted on 11/03/2013 7:12:00 PM PST by EEGator
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To: markomalley

If Christie becomes the GOP candidate in 16 then the GOP loses again.
After 8 years of that idiot Obama no conservative is going to vote for someone that kissed Obama ass............
No RINOS in 2016! I will not vote for the lesser of two evils anymore........


46 posted on 11/03/2013 7:12:56 PM PST by SECURE AMERICA (Where can I go to sign for the American Revolution 2013 and the Crusades 2013?)
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To: rollo tomasi
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47 posted on 11/03/2013 7:13:12 PM PST by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: SECURE AMERICA

Yep the media will praise Christie right up until the nomination, and turn on him just as quickly afterwards, just as they did with Romney.


48 posted on 11/03/2013 7:14:05 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: markomalley
I just read a story about Romney's campaign staff being shocked at the mess in Chubby’s background. They claimed it was so bad the they would have destroyed his political career if he was running against Romney.
49 posted on 11/03/2013 7:15:35 PM PST by peeps36 (I'm Not A Racist, I Hate Douchebags of All Colors)
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To: markomalley

Ummmm ......

How about “NO”???

Wait ....

Make that Hell NO!!!


50 posted on 11/03/2013 7:16:23 PM PST by NorthMountain
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To: markomalley

East Coast RINO’s will never save the Party.


51 posted on 11/03/2013 7:17:01 PM PST by kempster
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To: markomalley
In 2008; it was Obama vs. 'some old guy'...in 2012 it was Obama vs. 'some rich guy that abuses animals'...in 2016 it will Hillary vs. 'some fat guy from Joisey'.

Pass.

52 posted on 11/03/2013 7:19:08 PM PST by who knows what evil? (G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
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To: markomalley

No way in hell will Christie ever get my vote.

But I can sure envision the corrupt GOP-E rigging the process and going scorched-earth on any potential conservative who threatens their chosen puppet. If that is indeed what is destined to happen, I hope there will be a genuine Tea Party opposition on the ballot. Otherwise, I’ll leave my ballot blank once again, as I did with that bastard Romney on the ticket.


53 posted on 11/03/2013 7:20:23 PM PST by greene66
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To: markomalley
DrudgeReport linked article shows that Romney's Veep search committee nicknamed Christie 'pufferfish' ... and were stunned by the garish controversies lurking in the shadows of his record.

Ted Newton, managing Project Goldfish under Myers, had come into the vet liking Christie for his brashness and straight talk. Now, surveying the sum and substance of what the team was finding, Newton told his colleagues, If Christie had been in the nomination fight against us, we would have destroyed him—he wouldn’t be able to run for governor again. When you look below the surface, Newton said, it’s not pretty.

54 posted on 11/03/2013 7:21:35 PM PST by Servant of the Cross (the Truth will set you free)
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To: markomalley

I think this is personal for Romney, now. Just like McCain. After the conservatives ran him off the rails, he’s all in for destroying conservatives, even if it’s a scorched earth attack that takes the whole country down.

At least conservatives were smart enough not to turn out and vote for this liberal crap-weasel.


55 posted on 11/03/2013 7:22:36 PM PST by PhiloBedo (You gotta roll with the punches and get with what's real.)
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To: markomalley

Maybe I’m missing something, but has Myth ever won an election?


56 posted on 11/03/2013 7:22:37 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (Who knew that one day professional wrestling would be less fake than professional journalism?)
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To: Servant of the Cross

What an F’d up party. Only an enema can save it.


57 posted on 11/03/2013 7:23:11 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: Secret Agent Man

save it from what, exactly,you freaking rino?

From all of us real Conservatives trying to take it back from people like him!


58 posted on 11/03/2013 7:27:17 PM PST by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: markomalley

It’s long past time to either snatch the GOP back from the Beltway old boys’ club or form a new party around the Tea Party members and those libertarians who might swing behind a move in that direction.


59 posted on 11/03/2013 7:30:15 PM PST by Dick Bachert (Ignorance is NOT BLISS. It is the ROAD TO SERFDOM! We're on a ROAD TRIP!!)
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To: markomalley

Now we know why 4 million stayed home.
With Christie, 12 million will stay home.


60 posted on 11/03/2013 7:34:19 PM PST by oldbill
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