big question. if the strategy was at the beginning, paint romney as a corporate raider. paint him as the rich guy who doesn't care about you. paint him as the guy out of touch, who can't deal with the middle class. if that didn't work bauds that debate -- because that debate shattered, that then you are dealing with a record. what happens? >> they don't have anything. the reason they went after the kill romney strategy is because they calculated correctly, they can't run on the record that i mean to can't run on stewardship. huge debt. high chronic unemployment. the worst recovery since the second world war. can't run on that. can't run on the future or a vision, because he doesn't have a program. nothing on medicare. nothing on entitlements, nothing on the debt. nothing. so all you can do is to destroy the opponent. that's, you know, that's a strategy. the problem is, they succeeded. look, obama was ahead for months and months because of the millions of dollars of ads. as you said portrayed him as a