mitt romney had a chance to march with romney when he was 15 years old. he had a chance to march with history and he didn't do it. the last time he was running for president, he lied and said that his father did, but he didn't. the civil rights issue of mitt romney's era was civil rights. the civil rights martyrs, james cheney, andrew goodman and michael schwartz were murdered trying to help people get the right to vote in mississippi. that was when hundreds of college students just a few years older than mitt romney were pouring into the south during the civil rights movement. a month after james cheney, andrew goodman and michael schwerner gave their lives for it. the civil rights act was signed into law because the civil rights issue of mitt romney's era was civil rights. the voting rights act was signed into law two months after mitt romney graduated from high school. did mitt romney attend any of the civil rights demonstrations in detroit during his high school years? no, not one. did other american high school kids both rich and poor, white and blac

romney. when conservatives were wondering if one should be pressured to drop out in order to give conservatives a better shot, sheldon adelson made it clear that not only was newt gingrich his first choice, but he didn't like rick santorum at all. he made clear he would not support rick santorum if he became the nominee. he said he could ultimately support mitt romney. when it started to become clear that mitt romney was going to be the nominee, mr. adelson started publicly criticizing him. >> the problem with romney and i've talked to romney many, many times, he's not the bold decision maker like newt gingrich is. he doesn't want to, every time i talk to him, he says let me think about it. everything i've said to mitt, let me look into it. he's like obama. >> he's like obama. mitt romney, according to sheldon adelson is like obama and he doesn't mean it in a good way. he says he has another $75 million he would like to donate, but he's been lukewarm on mitt romney today. today was a big deal

romney is in bed with this guy. why is romney pulling up the kifrs over him and trump. what is he up to here? >> first of all, i'm less interested in what donald trump says than in what mitt romney doesn't say and what for that matter john mccain doesn't say. i tried pretty hard today to elicit from the mccain campaign or the senate office their view on latest about donald trump. i wanted know from the romney people whether they thought that association as george will said was harmful. no answer. i wanted to know from the mccain campaign, which is who mccain senate office, mccain having been used in an obama ad as the good senator who rejected this kind of politics for years ago. i wanted to know if mccain had anything to say about what was going on in las vegas today. silence. i think the silence from both romney camp and mccain camp means the following. they are willing to let donald trump root around in this and say whatever he wants to bring this topic up or keep the topic alive for those voters who are going to care about it. and they exist. they still exist in pla

that will be a good day for mitt romney. >> that would be a good day for mitt romney. joining us now is steve schmidt. who said it would be a good day for mitt romney when president george w. bush endorsed him? do you still feel that way? >> it means mitt romney is the republican march, this bush endorsement would have meant that mitt romney was the republican nominee because that's the threshold by which president bush would have entered the race. >> once he wrapped it up, he didn't have to get the george w. bush -- >> i think it's a pro forma endorsement. mitt romney is the republican nominee. he's going to endorse him. i don't think you'll see him actively campaigning for him. there's a terrific new book out there by nancy gibbs and it charged the relationship between all of the former presidents going back from truman and hoover and it's a fascinating dynamics and there is a traditionalist approach to this. a library and -- >> a political speech. >> he's giving paid speeches but he's not on the campaign speech. >> he's doing policy stuff. he was doing his paul ryan

where does that leave milt romney? >> it's a very tough place and he has struggled throughout this campaign to articulate a narrative about himself, either has a business person, a job creator or -- if you want to see what mitt romney's policies are like, let's revisit the bush years, you can also take a look at romney's own time in massachusetts. he ran that state very much in the way that he ran bain capital. he loaded it one a lot of debt and he ended up taking the prestige that he got from that position and moving on and killed a bunch of blue collar jobs in the meantime tame. >> ari, i want you to listen to more of the president's speech. listen to this. >> the challenge we face right now, the challenge we faced for over a decade is that harder work hasn't led to higher incomes. bigger profits haven't led to better jobs. and you can't solve that problem if you can't even see that it's a problem. >> ari, he's right, isn't he? if you can't acknowledge that problem, how can you resolve it? >> that's right and mitt ro

romney. romney. romney. he said, quote, i'll take a lot of credit for the fact that the industry's come back. whoa. by the way, i'll take a lot of credit for man having landed on the moon, because although i was in school, i rooted for it. >> see what i mean? 19 direct shots in today's speech alone. finally, why are republicans bigging big ing -- digging up four-year-old attack lines on president obama? here's the latest. this is u.s. congressman from colorado mike coffman at a fundraiser last week. >> i don't know whether barack obama was born in the united states of america. i don't know that. but i do know this, that in his heart, he's not an american. he's just not an american. >> coffman found himself backpedalling that last night in a quote when he said, i have confidence in president obama's citizenship and legitimacy in the united states, however, i don't believe the president shares my belief in american exceptionalism. his policies reflect a philosophy that america is but one nation among many equa

mitt romney issue alert. he says the next president doesn't need foreign policy experience. >> if we want somebody who has a lot of experience in foreign policy, we can simply go to the state department. when you're an empty suit, and a lot of ideology is thrown at you, you go with it. that's what happened with w. and iraq, and what can happen again. >> i this no individual walks into the oval office with foreign policy experience. >> if hillary clinton is elected she will. >> when she ran for president of the united states she didn't have the experience she had now. barack obama didn't have any foreign policy experience. >> but he had interest. >> this guy says he has no interest. >> you know his point is, if you want somebody who is going to walk in the door with all of this foreign policy on their back, then that's the way we need to go, but that's not -- >> i want to give you an open door here. tell me something mitt romney said that's of interest or important to you. >> i have not red a journal or -- >>

he doesn't help mitt romney. a lot of people are questioning his judgment as people questioned john mccain's judgment when sarah palin chose not to be running back. >> headlining is time for romney to fire trump. make your case. >> i just think i hope clarence is right that it's not going to do much for him. i agree with him that trump doesn't care. all trump cares about is getting attention. i call him an attention0 phile. he is tapping into the worse of a republican base that is not as enthusiastic about mitt romney. donald trump makes it look like he walks down the park avenue and people are screaming at him like go donald. he is appealing to the sliver of the republican base and it probably goes beyond the republican base that are really enthusiastic hearing this stuff. i hope it doesn't help mitt romney because it shouldn't. you would think mitt romney would not want to stand on a stage with a guy doing this stuff. so far he will take the money and run. >> and what he has said is he himself and his people ar

platform is socially conservative, and romney sticks to it. >> romney's only g.o.p. rival is now ron paul who has qualified to have his name put up for the g.o.p. convention. since she popular with young voters and romney and the going like that, they are delighted to have him in hopes of attracting more young people, just overall. >>bret: thank you. president obama is back in washington attending afternoon fundraisers a day after a surprise terrorist to afghanistan. chief white house correspondent looks at a journey a mix of official business and political business. >> there will be heartbreak. and pain. and difficulty ahead. but there's a light on the horizon. >>reporter: as president obama told the troops more of them willing injured and killed, he focused the address to the american people on positive gains. including the killing of, only. to show voters he is winding down a second we war. >> we broke the momentum of the taliban and built strong afghan security forces. we devastated al qaeda's leadership. >> two hours after he left the taliban launched a car bomb

romney is actually edging out obama. who is better on job creation? romney is doing well there. he does really bad in a lot of issues. this is an economy election in people right now are saying that they like romney better than obama. >> but isn't that a bit strange given the claim of job creation by romney have been slowly declining and yet the president's control of the economy, if you like, as president of the united states, has been going up. i find that -- >> this is a matter of perception. right now mitt romney is playing on the fact that while all the indices say we are in a recovery and that there are jobs for people to go after, if they can find them. people aren't actually feeling it. and i think mitt romney is trying to get, trying to work that feeling piece. >> right. >> i think you're exactly right. i think once americans their details of his support for the paul ryan plan, in fact, the polling of the paul ryan plan is awful. and it is made even worse once you describe to people using paul ryan's own words what's in it. >> no doubt. just a final question to all of y

romney does. that's why i think this vice presidential pick and how he goes is going to -- could impact that. >> when was the last time a vice presidential pick -- >> even carried his on state. i know. >> 1960. brilliant column in the "wall street journal" last week i think on this very topic. >> and if you believe robert caro's new book he carried the state because he stole it. but separate question. >> well, what else is new? please. >> as a texas practitioner -- >> 48 votes in the '48 primary you think that was an actual majority? forget it. duval county. jim hogg. >> other than 1960. >> and rahm emanuel's running chicago. >> we'll give you chicago. >> when did a vice presidential candidate really make a difference and carry a state, joe? >> well, i think that is -- i'm saying i think that's going into their thinking. it's clearly look at who they're looking at. and -- >> it could -- and i was the one that's skeptical of this. all the data show that the average vice presidential candidate has a

today, romney, the campaign put out a call for romney's old classmates to come forward and defend the candidate. romney did some damage control for himself on fox news today. >> i don't recall the incident, myself, but i've seen the reports and i'm not going to argue with that. there's no question that i did some stupid things when i was in high school. and obviously, if i hurt anyone by virtue of that, i would be very sorry for it and apologize for it. >> but romney also rationalized the behavior by saying he didn't know the victim's sexual orientation. romney and his friends were beating up a weaker kid, just for the hell of it? not because he was gay? >> i had no idea what that individual's sexual orientation might be. going back to the 1960s, that wasn't something that we all discussed or considered. >> i think we can all agree that people change throughout their lifetimes. no one should be held accountable today for every action he or she takes as a teenager, but these stories, i think, give us a snapshot of who mitt romney is. the guy who forced a hair cut on a helpless can kid

maybe romney can't. governor romney believes if he just keeps lying about the reality, you're not going smart enough to figure the whole thing out. >> things are getting a little better and the answer is yeah. things are getting a little better in a lot of places in this country, but it's not thanks to his policy, it's in spite of his policies. >> did you hear that? in spite of his policies. let's look at the private sector job growth that team romney can't figure out. the number of jobs under obama has dropped 1.86 million. check this out. that one red line in the chart, right there. see the red lines there, the red line on the chart in january. not one, the lowest point for private sector jobs was on president bush's watch. that's 820,000 jobs lost. in february, that's the blue line, the president was still finding his way around the oval office and his family was just getting move into the white house. president obama had been in the office all of 28days when congress passed the stimulus package on fe

romney. in an interview thursday, romney says of the president, and i'm quoting, america's economy runs on freedom and he's been attacking economic freedom from the first day he came into office. again, can you help me? what is he talking about. >> not imperative. these are bumper stickers, dog whistles to promote an incoherent point. the fact is it's lower than it ever has been, taxes are 15% of gdp which is a historical low and the romney campaign as i said before in the show continues to be unable to articulate a plan. part of that has already been approved. the obama care, plan would increase preem annuals. taxes are down 15% of gdp, which is as low as they've been. just to return to steve's point for a second here. i don't think the romney campaign was shocked when that i heard about the rev wrend write campaign. i think they're trying to wear the white hat while the super pacs wear the dark hat, no pun intended, and the reason for that, and they believe, andite very cynical, that uneduc

mitt romney's tenure as head of bain capital. firms like solyndra received federal loans from the obama administration but have since gone bankrupt. >> more than $16 billion have gone to companies like solyndra linked to big obama and democrat donors. obama giving taxpayer money to big donors. and then watching them lose it. >> nbc news senior political editor mark murray joins us live from washington. mark, than ad is an attempt to muddy the talk about the bain enterprises that went bellbelly that did the same thing. >> that's right. over the last two weeks we have been debating bain and seen examples of two of the companies, the democrats want to highlight and pad in the early 1990s as well as gts steel. what the romney's campaign doing is talk about the worst examples when private equity didn't work, let's have some examples of when public equity, the stimulus, didn't work, and they're using the solyndra case to say, look, here is an example, president obama overseeing something that didn't work out as well. now i would make t

here is a romney ad by karl rove's superp.a. c. >> i always loved watching the kids play basketball. i still do, even though things have changed. it's funny, they can't find jobs to get their career started and i can't afford to retire and now we're all living together again. i supported president obama because he spoke so beautifully. obama added almost $16,000 in debt for every american. how will my kids pay that off when they can't even find jobs. chris: it's getting pretty hot right now. why are they raising it's stakes and going at it head-to-head this week so hard when we're so many weeks ahead of the election? >> the obama campaign knows that the economic news is not to be great before the election. it's mediocre. they need to attempt to disqualify romney now on the is central basis of his campaign, economic mr. fix it. if they don't and the economic news worsens for the president, then romney who is already close on the president in the polls has a structural advantage. go after romney now on a central qualification. if

and sometimes romney. did i almost say reagan -- romney will. >> >> chris: my sense for a while he's going to be talking about his jobs plan. at some point romney's going to have to come out with a jobs plan. >> of course. there are a lot of gaps that need to be filled with his policy but i agree with kelly overall. this is why it's hard to run against and incumbent president, particularly one while he is policies may not be popular is more of a likable guy than romney is seen. >> character counts. what we don't know is the public's perception of romney's character is. chris: that's a great question. something besides jobs, jobs, jobs. going along with the neocon serve actives. does he have the charact tore stand up to those forces? >> i think with independence, the issue is going to be how far he moves to the right during the primary campaign and whether he can get back to the center while being lambasted and being a flip flopper. >> people really need to get to know him. we're talking about the small num

crystal, the romney campaign will ride any one on bain so long as it's not mitt romney. so it's cory booker, steve ratner, but he cannot be ridden. i am assuming mitt romney's position on bain will be i can't remember what i did, but i stand by what i did whatever that was. >> he's happy to take credit for any successes, but as soon as you start to talk about any of the failures, any of the things that went wrong, oh, that's off limits. we're not allowed to talk about that, right? and the president is exactly on point here. i think to what david just said, not only did he up the ante, not only did he really focus in on what the problem is and why this is so important, but he did it in a very measured way that didn't seem nasty. you know, it made sense to people. it was logical. >> he made the point that i am not disparaging private equity, i'm not writing off a whole sector of the economy, i'm not attacking people who work in these sectors. >> right. >> i'm actually saying that people are as or more important than profit. >> that's exactly right, and if you're going to b

they said romney left two people out in the street. romney was gone by then. they said they were loading up debt and dumping them. these companies have no higher default rates and starting negative not only distracts you, but also damages his personal reputation. e.j.? >> first of all, when george bush began his 2004 campaign against john kerry he began the attacks in february and march, so i don't see -- i didn't see any republicans saying the president should never attack his opponents and secondly the argument over bain is part of the substantive argument over the future of american capitalism. first, it's romney from the beginning was saying his role as a job creator at bain was the key reason why he should be president. thanks to this exchange even rush limbaugh has said no, private equity companies are not about creating jobs, but if you go back in the history it's one of the things we talk about about in my book, we argue about the nature of capitalism from the very beginning whether it's hamilton and clay arguing about manufacturing and andrew jackson

of romney's bain capital. calls "performance art gibberish." let's turn to bob shrum, democratic strategist and nyu professor. bob, good to have you with us tonight. >> glad to be here. >> romney tried, i think something similar in his losing run in 1994 when he wanted to unseat ted kennedy. i think a spokesman back then said that kennedy, the camp had put words in people's mouths. what about that? >> yeah, well, that's what they said. "the boston globe" went out and found out it wasn't true. we turned the camera on and the workers had talked about what happened to them. look, they don't have an answer to this. they don't have a coherent claim. this guy sometimes says he created ten thousand jobs, sometimes says he created a hundred thousand jobs. sometimes says, well, maybe a hundred thousand. i mean, his communications director said it was a back of the envelope calculation. but, you know, it adds insult to injury in terms of these workers, who are just saying what happened to them. to call them gibberish an

but this morning a top romney adviser seems to shrug off the incident. >> governor romney doesn't remember that incident at all. it was high school. >> and in a radio interview this morning, romney was actually chuckling, chuckling while he was talking about this. >> you know, i don't -- i don't remember that incident and i'll tell you, i certainly don't believe that i -- and i can't speak for other people, of course, thought the fellow was homosexual. but as to the teasing and the taunts that go on in high school, that's a long time ago. for me it's about 48 years ago. so, again, if there's anything that i said that was offensive to someone, i certainly am sorry about that. >> but by late this afternoon, romney's attitude and tone was different. >> first of all, i had no idea what that individual's sexual orientation might be. going back to the 1960s, that wasn't something that we all discussed or considered. so that's simply not accurate. i don't recall the incident myself but i've seen the reports and i'm not going to argue with that. there's no question that i did some stupid things wh

mitt romney -- first of all, mitt romney in 1994 said he was going to be better on civil unions and gay marriage than ted kennedy. he has come a long way since then. this is about being on the right side of history. there is also poll numbers that show among independent voters the support for gay marriage the spread is like 16%. this is going to be something the white house brings up again and again and again and again. you hear the white house talking about mitt romney being a severe conservative. here is your evidence. >> i am so struck by the fact. it was just eight years ago. the entire campaign was run with this as tz key wedge issue. with conservatives prosecuting the cultural war both because it amped up their face. they had to essentially choose their own base, the preferences of independent voters. what i have been struck by all this is the tentativeness and the defensiveness of mitt romney. this is something the other side, the republican party and conservatives saw as something to lead with just eight years ago. >> they are on the defensive now. it is really remarkable to me

romney wanted the bankruptcy. what romney didn't say but he should have, there would have had to be a government liquidity loan to get the new thing up on his feet. >> he's not saying that. when you listen to what he wanted to do it was, okay, gm, triage. you can't do triage. it is still one of the largest companies in the world. >> the bankruptcy was the triage. they off load pension debt. give chrysler to fiat. the government put in billions and billions of dollars. >> take local issues like mine. investinginfrastructure. romney's talking about not investing in those things. he's talking about giving tax breaks to the wealthiest people in this country. >> this is why bain actually does matter. because it needs to be used to talk about the bigger issue. bain fundamentally is about two conflicting visions. i don't entirely agree with how you see the visions. this is about a president who thinks that private business is bad. you need bigger government, more regulation, higher taxes, all of those things and people l

the red solid romney states. 90. then leaning romney are pink states. plus or minus. plus four to eight. lean obama light blue. plus four to eight. tossup is plus three percentage points. there you see where things stand. as of today. carl we have regions where we can talk about different states as james laid out that 3-2-1 strategy. >> yeah. three states that are up for grabs obviously, north carolina, virginia, and indiana. republican states in the past. there are s a pretty good agreement that two of three are leaning obama and one will be -- leaning romney and one will be a battleground until the end. if romney wins those three states plus ohio and florida, then all he needs in order to win the election is either new hampshire or pennsylvania or wisconsin or michigan or iowa or colorado or ned or new mexico. >> bret: when someone looks at the map today and they look at the numbers today, they look at the disparity between president obama an mitt romney. there is a big one. joe? >> well, there is. i mean obama starts off with a huge electoral advantage. he is only,

romney is not well defined. the reason they're going aggressively, again, they're doing it on the cheap, they're not spending it on this two-minute ad. >> why don't they just run the kennedy ad and the old newt gingrich ad? that was the nastiest of all three. >> i think what was great about the newt gingrich ad is it gave everyone a chance to see what might or might not work. i would love to see the interviews. you talk about stables, stables created thousands of jobs. stables also lost jobs, it put thousands of jobs out of business. >> it seems like they could stick with -- it will be over his governor career if he goes back. >> yeah. rob portman, who i think would be one of the people strongly considered to be a running mate, was at a bloomberg review today. i asked him about this ad and this attack against romney, and his answer was, hey, that's capitalism. >> it's not a good answer for his national election. >> if romney gave that answer, would be disastrous. rob portman is not at the same level, at least no

own mitt romney or romney own trump? whose party is it? >> the i think what trump has shown is that the kind of stuff four years ago that would have been outside the pale as racist is fair game for somebody to say and show up on the stage with romney the next day. >> kornacki, will we see a trump keynote at the rnc? >> i thought the leverage he's channeling the base here. trump has this media platform. he says something, we all talk about it. maybe there's an awareness i don't want to be on his wrong side because he'll be dashing me. we've been talking about when is this omni sister soldier moment going to come. there's a new interview today where trump is saying it flat out, absolutely obama was born in kenya. i wonder if this is the moment when romney has room to say there's a lot i don't like about obama. >> this could work not in romney's favor. trump is a device i be figure. the dnc has an ad beak making fun of the dinner with trump saying dinner with barack, you're fireds up. dinner with romney, you're just fired.

romney's proposals. will that be a reputation of some things that got us into the ditch or something new and better. >> chris: less than a minute left, karl. does at this point i understand we are six points oath. does obama have an easier path. >> an easier bath but not a great map. this lacks opinion because -- >> chris: put up the map again. >> the last poll for south carolina is december of last year. i think for example up-to-date showing will show, iowa, and ohio either up for grabs or leaning for romney. same with colorado. and frankly this is going to come down to a narrow victory one side report other. >> chris: to be continued. thank you panel. see you next week. check out panel plus where the group picks right up with the foxussion on our website fox newssunday .com. follow us on twitter @ "fox news sunday." up next, our power player of the week. [ male announcer ] what's in your energy drink? ♪ wer surge, let it blow your mind. [ male announcer ] for fruits, veggies and natural green tea en

mitt romney's team is a dandy. they lied about the war on women, the automobile loan and the death of the number one terrorist. tonight i'm going to set the record straight. this is "the ed show." let's get to work. >> i just recommend that people take a look at people's previous statements in terms of whether they thought it was appropriate to go into pakistan and take out bin laden. >> mitt romney is running away from his rhetoric on bin laden, and he's digging a deeper hole in the process. >> richard wolffe on his disaster. >>> time after time the republicans have gotten together and they've said no. >> the president makes the case to workers. republicans are the problem. >> i send them a jobs bill that would have put hundreds of thousands of construction workers back to work repairing our roads, bridges, transit systems, they still said no. howard fineman on the president's big speech on jobs. >>> it was another war on women train wreck. >> it's about policy and whether or not you want to fix the structure disc

is wrong with mitt romney? he doesn't have to build a $19 million in california, does he? can he wait for that for a few years? and now he's got an elevator in his garage? >> i tell you what, 10,000 bucks. $10,000 bet? >> i'm not in the betting business. >> take a shot. go for it. take a risk. get the education. borrow money if you have to from your parents, start a business. >> joining me now, jonathan washington post opinion writer and meghan mccain, columnist for the daily beast. meghan, first of all, it's a really ugly t-shirt. first of all, did you like that thing? >> no, it's not my style. but what's important to say is she has custom designer clothes as well. >> i believe the tennis shoes were $450. >> well, more expensive than what i wear and what the average american wears but what ann romney needs to remember is she is on the campaign trail and she should probably be more kog na zant of the message. >> she should have been warned by some of these things that came out against michelle obama. on clothin

works for romney. in part because i don't think that obama's big government philosophies are the same as the 1970s ones. obama is hand in hand with many industries. with the solar industry, with general electric work boeing. he is not waging a war on corporate america in the way that the ralph nader liberals. were it is not going back. it is a new sort of liberalism in my view. >> all right. thank you. a.b. stoddard, thank you. we'll have more on the president's response as he lands there. and coming up, mitt romney set to deliver a commencement address to students at the largest christian university in the country after a back lash from some students. how far into his faith will everything? does he even need to? plus, speaking of back lash. the family of the man allegedly bullied by governor romney in high school are slamming the story as a political agenda. with that said, the long history of a man who could be president matter? it is our "news nation" gut check. you get to chime in on this friday an

romney mr. president some time soon. >> i remember when geraldine ferraro became the viez vice presidential candidate. and as much as barack obama, i was broproud of the country. i don't want anybody to vote for mitt romney because he's romney. i don't want anybody to vote against mitt romney because he's mormo mormon. the rom no phromney family are good, quality people and as article 6 of the constitution says this should not be a litmus test and it is a good, honest person in mitt romney and so many people will be there to send some precedence in many ways. >> i think it's a source of pride for all of us that the country is able to move on and not pay attention to someone's religion and they want to have a good person in the white house four years, first african-american, first catholic and now maybe, a mormon will be in the white house, and i know you're proud about that as everyone should be especially if you're mormon. thanks very much for that. >> thanks, wolf. >> we have new developments

romney clearly does not believe. in 1984, the catholic governor of new york, mario cuomo spoke at america's most renowned catholic university, notre dame. he was not timid. >> proitenth my ride to be a catholic by preserving your right to be a jew. or a protestant, or a nonbeliever or anything else you choose. >> there is mario cuomo not only acknowledging the existence of non-christian religions, something romney could not do, but acknowledging the existence of what he called "the nonbeliever." and acknowledging the existence of your right to believe as he put it, anything else you choose. mitt romney would never dare speak that sentence to any audience anywhere. but the cuomo position is the true american position. mario cuomo the catholic did not pander to his largely catholic audience. mario cuomo challenged his audience not to is you sum to the temptation of forcing their beliefs on others. something mitt romney will dare not do. in front of any christian audience at any time. mitt romney stands so timidly befor

here was romney trying out the new tactic last week. >> of course that's the same mitt romney who said this in 2007, when he was running for president. >> i do not concur, in the words of barack obama, in a plan to enter an ally of ours and their country in a manner complete with bombing and so forth. >> and now the same mitt romney who opposed president obama's intervention that saved the american automobile industry, that same mitt romney says not that he would have done the same thing, but that he actually did, himself, save the auto industry. >> my own view, by the way, was that the auto companies needed to go through bankruptcy before government help. and frankly, that's finally what the president did. he finally took them through bankruptcy. that was the right course. i argued for it from the very beginning. i pushed the idea of a managed bankruptcy. and finally when that was done and help was given, the companies got back on their feet. so i'll take a lot of credit for the fact that this industry has come back. >> mitt romney taking a lot of credit for saving the auto industry c

they think romney is a fake. and you know that's true, they think romney is a fake. >> who is they? >> true conservatives. >> that he's fake or that's what they think. look at the polling, do some professional conservatives that make a living by being the arbiter of being conservative, do they dislike mitt romney, they do. you would not see polls out of ohio and florida that show them neck and neck. if there was a huge swath of conservatives that were not on board with mitt romney. >> you think that is the face of authenticity. just asking. does he look like an empty suit to you pretending to be a conservative. >> he is a business guy trying to the deal. what happens is people come to you and say you need to agree with to this close the deal, and he says okay i'll do that. you need to say this, okay i'll do that. he's a business guy trying to close the deal. everyone that ran against hymn understands that. >> here is ronald reagan, he taught himself conservatism, in the 1950s he read the new republic, he got into it. and current stuff. by the time he ran for president a few times, h

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