Romney defends campaign: 'I'm not willing to light my hair on fire'

FEBRUARY 28, 2012 AT 12:37 PM
Romney defends campaign: 'I'm not willing to light my hair on fire'
BY DETROIT NEWS STAFF AND WIRE REPORTS

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"It's very easy to excite the base with incendiary comments. We've seen throughout the campaign that if you're willing to say really outrageous things that are really accusative and attacking of President Obama, you're going to jump up in the polls," Romney said. Fielding questions from the national traveling press corps for the first time in nearly three weeks, he said: "I'm not willing to light my hair on fire to try and get support. I am what I am."

And asked if remarks highlighting his wealth — like when he said Sunday he doesn't follow NASCAR as closely as some but has "great friends who are NASCAR team owners" — were hurting his campaign, Romney said: "Yes. Next question."

Romney also said Tuesday that former Speaker of the House and Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich was correct when he said Santorum was a "big labor" representative.

"He's probed it again by doing the work of the UAW and the Obama team," said Romney, who appeared in shirt sleeves and blue jeans.

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