Former New Hampshire governor and Mitt
Romney surrogate John Sununu has refused to discuss gay marriage,
claiming it is too “complicated” to discuss in a radio interview.
Sununu, who served as White House Chief
of Staff under President George H. W. Bush and chaired the New
Hampshire Republican Party from 2009 to 2011, on Thursday, speaking
as a surrogate for Romney, blasted President Barack Obama as “inept”
and “incompetent” in a lengthy 20 speech to Illinois' GOP
delegation to the Republican National Convention.
“Are there folks here from Chicago?”
he asked the delegation. “You ought to go into the real estate
business because there's a guy who's got a lot of friends who are
coming, that's coming back to look for a house next January. Maybe
Tony Rezko can help him again.”
When asked by SiriusXM OutQ's
Michelangelo Signorile about the GOP platform's stance in support of
a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage, Sununu responded
that he had not seen the platform and did not want to make a
“technical mistake.”
“If you tell me it's in the platform,
I'm going to believe you. It's much more complicated,” Sununu
told Signorile. “If you want to buy two cases of beer, and sit
down and talk about it, I'm happy to do so. But there are some
places that deserve more than a hackneyed, two-sentence answer.”