will be little more than a glorified shuttle for bar hoppers and conventioneers. the mitt romney releasing his tax returns from 2011 late yesterday. joining me is perry bacon junior and editor of citizen jane politics patricia murphy as well a contributor for newsweek and the daily beast. patricia, does mitt romney releasing the 2011 tax returns settle the issue for him or open pandora s box? considering he gave the full 2011 release he gave the summary for the last 20 years. well, it definitely does not settle the issue. in fact i think it really raises more questions. this is going to raise questions for the people who want to be asking these questions in the first place. democrats obviously pounced on this. and they are going again through the details of these tax returns. but the really strange part was this 20-year summary of the rom
growth. who would the white house rather face? joining me now is christina delantoni. and perry bacon junior white house reporter for the washington post. perry, let me start with you. who would the president rather be up against in your opinion? i think he should rather be up against rick perry. the thing the white house needs to make the case, is that republicans are returning the country back it george bush and what the country didn t like about george bush and rick perry is similar to bush. he is governor texas. he was bush s lieutenant governor in the 1909s. he is the easier case it make that this guy is the next george bush rather than mitt romney. do you think we can use the whole idea of h is reincarnation of george bush political reincarnation of course, and that that is enough or can perry