put on the ticket, now we're going to engage in a specific fight about medicare and budget priorities, and tax reform. instead they reverted to the old romney formula, which is try -- >> did you see him yesterday? yesterday was a great example on "meet the press." david gregory of nbc gave him a great opportunity to lay out what he meant by tax reform, what are you going to try to get rid of? he wouldn't mention a thing. >> mitt romney's just not a great candidate as a personality and as a biography and that's been said over and over. the other is the specificity point. and the people closest to mitt romney who i know and i talk to believe that making the case against the president is still their number one priority and their best opportunity -- >> it's a negative campaign. >> they came up with this phrase which they got from margaret thatcher, thatcher's phrase when she ran in britain was labor isn't working. their phrase here is obama isn't working.