and get mitt the candidate campaign right. i did his campaign for governor. i'm of the school of thought, let mitt be mitt. loosen him up, get out of the dockers into a suit. >> what do you mean, let mitt be mitt? >> quit some of the forced stuff. less teleprompter. >> no jeans? >> just put him in the suit and say i'm the grown-up, i'm the coach, i've run the fast one. you want a therapist, you got one in the white house, he can't deliver anything. let him be the fixed kind of guy he is and don't worry about the gaffes and clunkiness. get out the day-to-day process. and mitt romney when he was governor of massachusetts did extremely well, he was elected by independents. >> your party, though, seems to have fallen into the what i call the new cycle trap. and obama's campaign, they arguably lost more new cycles than they won against mccain. in the last three months. >> i've never been a fan of counting news cycles. >> the romney campaign does seem to want to chase the news cycles. the republican party in general. >> yeah, but part of it is the