Posted on 02/27/2012 1:13:25 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Chris Christie has resisted every temptation to run for president, but he’s no longer sure he’d be able to resist the temptation to join the GOP ticket as the vice presidential nominee. If Mitt Romney asked, he just might say yes, he said yesterday.
Christian Heinze of the website GOP12 notes that Christie, the popular sharp-tongued Republican who endorsed Mitt Romney’s candidacy for president, is now singing a different tune when asked about being on the GOP ticket in 2012.
“If Gov. Romney were to come and talk to me about it, I would listen because I love my party enough and I love my country enough to listen,” Christie said on CBS’ Face the Nation on Sunday.
As Heinze reported on Monday, Christie last year said, “Can you see me as somebody’s vice president? I mean, who would be that poor guy? You know, I just don’t think that my personality is necessarily suited to being No. 2.”
In all likelihood, Mitt Romney won’t ask Chris Christie to be his running mate. No matter how valuable Christie has been to Romney throughout the primary process, Christie wouldn’t diversify Romney’s ticket in the strategic ways a vice presidential nominee should. Like Romney himself, Christie’s executive experience is in a Northeastern, blue state. The white, Anglo-Saxon Catholic Christie wouldn’t do much to attract the crucial Latino vote or to reassure anxious evangelicals.
Then, too, Christie’s year-old remarks still ring true. His strong, forceful personality isn’t suited to a No. 2 position — and to sacrifice him as the governor of New Jersey to sideline him as vice president makes no more sense for the conservative movement at large than it does for Mitt Romney’s prospects of a victory in the general election.
It’s polite of Christie to say he’d consider a Mitt Romney offer — and it’s also a dramatic way to emphasize that he thinks Mitt Romney and no other GOP candidate should be the nominee — but nothing more.
I think I just threw up in my mounth a little...
I think I just threw up in my mouth a little...
Yeah, Wise Guy Chrisie..
TWO Northeastern Liberal Republicans on the ticket.
What could go wrong?
My comment at hotair for this post: Talk about weighing down the ticket! Take his support of the leftist global warming fraudsters and rinoism, and say, no thanks.
Sorry Chris, the position has already been offered to Rand Paul. Maybe we could find you a tee-shirt:
“I gave an endorsement and all I got was this lousy T-shirt”
Ha, ha :)
RE: Sorry Chris, the position has already been offered to Rand Paul
REALLY? Where are you getting this info from?
I will never vote for Ronney, especially if Christie is his co-runner.
(Yeah, I know its an ad hominem attack; but, in this case, I will suspend my personal standards on this matter.)
Seriously, there is no way that I could vote for that “ticket!”
That would go over like a lead balloon. Two NE liberals.
Yawn
Rand Paul Says ‘It Would Be An Honor’ if Romney Asked Him to Be VP
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-gop/2850000/posts
I guess Christie Creme will have to have a cage match to the death with Rand Paul to get a VP slot. It appears that Mittens already may have promised it to Paul for his fathers undying support this election cycle.
The fix was in ever since Matt Rhoades’ so-called fiance got a plum political patronage job from Christie despite being woefully under-qualified.
The Northeast RINO fix is in.
Matt Rhoades has promised it to Chris Christie, not Rand Paul. The whole Rand Paul thing is just Kabuki to keep the Paultards on the reservation until after the convention.
Why would anyone think two RINOs are better than one? That isn’t how candidates enlarge their voter base.
Yeah but, what Mittens promises is not necessarily what Mittens will do. It would serve both ron and Rand Paul right if Mittens stiffs them for bailing on every value they’ve pretended to hold IMO.
It’s too bad as I’ve been favorably impressed by Rand Paul as a TEA Pary guy until now.
If the Pillsbury Dough Boy from Jersey and Romulus are on the ticket expect a very low voter turn out.
Romney would be an even bigger dope than we give him credit for if he named Christie.
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