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.
