Christie Defends Romney: ‘He’s Not An Accountant’

[ProSense]

Christie Defends Romney: ‘He’s Not An Accountant’

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, a Romney campaign surrogate, defended the Republican candidate from criticism that his policies proposals lack specifics by stating that President Obama also lacks specifics, in an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press."

"Let's be fair here. Gov. Romney has laid out a direction and a vision for the direction of this country," Christie said to host David Gregory. "He's not an accountant. He's not going to go line by line as much as you'd like him to do through the budget. But let's hold the president to the same standard and criticize him as well."

Christie continued: "Because how's (Obama) going to create 1 million new manufacturing jobs, David? He hasn't told anyone the specifics of that. How's he going to reduce $4 trillion in debt? We're still waiting to hear what he thinks about Simpson-Bowles, which he commissioned. I mean, you know, he's been the president and hasn't given us specifics. So let's be fair here."

Pressed on this response, Christie said that the public would have "plenty of detail" in order to make a judgment on Mitt Romney.

http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/christie-defends-romney-hes-not-accountant

Wow, Mitt's campaign and surrogates are full of FAIL today. LOL!

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[porphyrian]

1. From what I've seen, he's not a statesman, either. n/t

[BumRushDaShow]

2. ""He's not an accountant."

But he has a MBA from Harvard along with the law degree.

Next!

[sammytko]

5. yeah, and i'm pretty sure there were some accounting classes involved in there somewhere - lol

Gosh Eastwood said we don't need no lawyers in the white house and now mitts other expertise is called lacking.

[ProSense]

12. Mitt's accounting:

Find a company, subtract all it's money, stash in the Cayman Islands and invest in foreign companies.

That's all he seems to know.

[Patiod]

3. Au contraire, Gov Sandwich, he's a Harvard MBA

He should have this stuff boiled down to his beloved Power Points for us.

[Bjorn Against]

4. Well I am pretty sure he has accountants working for him

His problem is that no accountant can make the math match his talking points.

[jsr]

6. But he can ask for help with arithmetic from a fellow Harvard MBA

“It's clearly a budget. It's got a lot of numbers in it.”

[reformist2]

7. Spit it out, Romney: You plan on eliminating the mortgage deduction to pay for your tax cut.

I'm sick of this BS. If Mitt's not willing to fill in the details of his tax "reform," then we will for him.

[no_hypocrisy]

8. So Christie is claiming that Mitt is a businessman who isn't good with numbers.

And Mitt is supposed to be superior to the President precisely because he is a successful businessman.

Cognitive dissonance

[ProSense]

9. Christie is not the

sharpest tool in the shed. He's a blowhard and a fraud.

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http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021381153

[Rosa Luxemburg]

10. Romney's theory is that dinosaurs are thick in the middle and thin at both ends

that's his theory

[HopeHoops]

11. Well, Christie should know. He can't even count his own calories.