Mitt Romney presses on as Chris Christie fever rages (Poor, poor baby! :sheds a tear:)

Right now, it’s not easy being Mitt Romney. Every time he turns around, conservatives are looking for someone new to embrace, someone Who Isn’t Him. This week, following Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s partial implosion at the Orlando, Fla., GOP debate, the hot ticket is Chris Christie.

On Wednesday, Romney had his game face on when asked about Christie, who continues to deny he’s running even as calls for such a candidacy from some in the Republican establishment grow louder and louder. Initially, Romney suggested to the crew on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” that the media were just stirring up trouble, but soon he became more Zen about the whole thing.

“That’s your business. You’ve got to fund some excitement, you’ve got to have some intrigue,” Romney said, adding that Christie was likely just mustering support for his 2013 New Jersey gubernatorial reelection campaign. “Who knows? Maybe he decides to get in. I can’t control what other folks are going to do.”

To that end, Romney told hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski that he isn’t looking to shift his strategy....

I am a Cain supporter, but I strongly agree with the Perry supporters on one issue:

We need to start cutting our teeth on Romney. This guy is getting a serious pass by the media and FReepers aren't doing ourselves any favors by ignoring his consistent lead in the polls.

So FReepers, bring your "A" game! Let's remind everyone why we believe this RINO POS is a non-starter for conservatives.

Eat 'em up, boys.

Despite what Rush says,the RINO label Christie has been assigned is overdone. He is not another Romney.The only thing the two share is that they are/were northeast governors.

Christie has had the difficult job of running a Dem state saddled with a Dem legislature and

steamrolling through fiscal spending cuts, fighting off the income tax increases the Dem legislature

wanted, and fighting unions.He has reduced spending in his state both in real dollars and percentage

terms more than most of the other 49 states.And he did it by going over the head of a Dem legislature

directly to a largely Dem populace. In that fiscal sense he almost outreagans Reagan.He was the first

governor to have the audacity to take the unpopular position in his Dem state and turn down Federal

funds for rail citing inevitable cost overruns. He is pro life and,unlike Romney,always has been.He has consistently strongly opposed to Obamacare and did not initiate its concept as did Romney.. Yup, one can probably find a few positions he holds that a conservative such as myself can disagree especially when it comes to opposing the repeal of the ban on assault weapons. But he has never referred to me as being without a heart because I do not want in state tuition discounts for illegals.Nor did he grant amnesty to 3 million illegals or surrender to the Dem legislature that enacted tax increases in the late eighties like my personal favorite Ronald Reagan. I guess in that sense one might call the Gipper a RINO which, of course, he was not..

—Ann Coulter.—

I really like what she has to say and write usually, but she seems to be carrying way too much water for the liberal Republican establishment.

Ann, it’s time to cut bait. We need to do to the Republican party what they did to the Whigs. The R’s and D’s are redundant.

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