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Romney to Huck's Camp: 'Don't Touch the Hair'

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January 03, 2008 12:57 PM

ABC News' Matt Stuart and Teddy Davis Report: Mitt Romney made a tongue-in-cheek plea Thursday for Ed Rollins, the Huckabee campaign chairman who recently said that he wanted to knock Romney's teeth out, to keep his hands off his well-quaffed hair.

"The politics are getting interesting," said Romney. "The polls show it is just neck and neck. Down to a razor wire. Tensions are getting high and comments are being made that are really quite questionable. I saw just yesterday the chairman of Gov. Huckabee's campaign said that he would like to knock my teeth out."

"My only comment on that," he added, "is don't touch the hair."

The former Massachusetts governor made his comments while speaking at Principal Financial Group in Des Moines just a few hours before the Iowa caucuses were set to get underway. 

In Wednesday's Washington Post, Rollins discussed Huckabee's much-ballyhooed recent decision not to air an anti-Romney ad after producing it and playing it in front of a packed room of reporters.

"I admire the fact he's trying to change the environment," Rollins said of Huckabee's decision to stay positive. "What I have to do is make sure that my anger with a guy like Romney, whose teeth I want to knock out, doesn't get in the way of my thought process."

Romney's thick head of dark hair, which is grayed only at the temples, was in the news in February of last year when his staff worried that it looks "too perfect" in a 77-page PowerPoint presentation obtained by The Boston Globe.

January 3, 2008 in Giuliani, Rudy, Palin, Sarah | Permalink | User Comments (8)

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"Well-quaffed hair"???

Fascinating. Who drank it?

Posted by: RMBragg | Jan 3, 2008 1:06:47 PM

Do you guys actually mean coif? Coif is pronounced the same as quaff.

Posted by: Kaitian | Jan 3, 2008 2:48:32 PM

"well-quaffed hair"

I'll drink to that

Posted by: Dinah Lord | Jan 3, 2008 2:50:45 PM

"well COIFFED" not "-QUAFFED" for pity's sake!

Posted by: In Virginia | Jan 3, 2008 3:30:30 PM

Well, I guess we now know that "ABC" doesn't stand for "Already Been Checked."


"I think! Therefore I spell correctly!"
(Descartos... wait. No, Descartis... No wait... Descartes. Aw screw it. It's ABC - nobody's gonna notice anyway.)

PS: Another problem with their web site: In the e-mail address field, it doesn't allow you to have a period (.) as part of your e-mail address. How '90s!

Posted by: Gerry | Jan 3, 2008 4:45:56 PM

Huchabee shoots birds that get in his way and Rollins wants to knock some teeth out because Huchabee's closet door is being kept open. I don't see how that spells leadership.

Posted by: Lorax | Jan 3, 2008 5:25:39 PM

Give Ed Rollins a break. Any one who is human would have to deal with anger issues with their opponent in the situation that he is in. I'm glad that all of you people who criticize him never think bad thoughts. Come on, at least he is real enough to admit how he feels. Romney's just hiding who he is....He seems a little plastic/fake.

Posted by: Curt Hanna | Jan 4, 2008 9:08:34 AM

Come on, guys, it's been days... how about correcting the stupid word "quaff", even if it's the sneaky kind of correction where you don't admit the mistake in the first place?

Like you usually do....?

Just leaving it there sort of makes you look dumber and dumber with the passing of each day.

Posted by: dave | Jan 6, 2008 6:37:32 PM

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