“I am sure there are times when…” Romney began to answer.
“I mean, every one makes mistakes- to err is human,” LePage continued.
Romney answered that he has been critical of President Obama’s “apology tour” around the world when Obama said “that America had dictated to other nations.”
“The apology tour, as it was called was inappropriate, not the right course,” Romney said before being moved along by a security official.
The St. Petersburg Times Politifact website, a Pulitzer Prize winner in 2009, has disputed that assessment. A review of Obama’s speeches found “not a single, full-throated apology in the bunch.”
Shortly after the exchange, Romney and his traveling supporters, who included former Governor John H. Sununu and US Senator Kelly Ayotte, cleared out of the wood-paneled legion and returned to the bus.
Paul Monico, a former Air Force pilot and Raytheon engineer, who lives in nearby Meredith, said he liked what he heard. But Romney hadn’t clinched the deal tonight for him.
“He’s in my top two,” he said. Newt Gingrich is the other. Monico said he’s still assessing which man has the better chance of beating Obama.
Meanwhile, the man who supplied for food for the evening, Alex Ray, the owner of a state-wide restaurant chain that got its start in Ashland, said he too was on the fence.
“I like what I heard but I need to hear more,” said Ray, who supported Obama last time and may again. He’s not sure.
