have to make governor romney unacceptable, unelectable. so the negative ad that started this morning on bain capital will be followed by other ads. megyn: there was an article that said this is early for the person in the oval office to go negative. if you look at president bush, they don t negative this early. george w. bush was in a tight race early on and seemed to do the same. i agree with doug. this is going to be about the destruction of mitt romney. i think the lead will exchange hands many times between now and november in these daily tracking polls. so i don t put too much stock in these ups and downs. it s mid-may. but structurally there is a problem. if he s floating in the mid-40%,
asked. here is the answer. it worked for ted kennedy in 1994 when mitt romney was ahead of senator kennedy in that election. the democrats used a bain capital effect with effect. and they are betting the same attack that worked 14 years ago with work now and it s the first of what will undoubtedly be many tough personal attacks on governor romney. megyn: here we go, guy, doug, thank you both. one more item from the campaign trail. north carolina democrats facing an open revolt ahead of the party s national convention which is scheduled to take place in september in charlotte. the state party chair david parker formally resigned this past saturday, but then was voted back in by party leaders. he has been struggling with a story that he allegedly sexually
who were interviewed who said thank god for bain capital, it kept us alive longer than we would have been but for the decisions made by mitt romney. so when you talk about saving jobs, our president when he took over general motors thousands and thousands of jobs were taken off a company be that could not sustain itself as it was, and the government had to come in and bail out a private industry, dick. you have a convenient memory. i d like to put the job creation of mitt romney against the job depreciation of this president over the last three and a half years. we have a failed stimulus that the president promised us, if passed, would not have american unemployment nationally above 8%. it hasn t been below 8 president be. we have record foreclosures, record bankruptcies. so when you talk about a business acumen of a community organizer versus someone who s run a state and businesses, i m putting my money on the businessman as opposed to a failed president who hasn t delivered on a
arguing that the money that went to edwards mistress was not a campaign contribution. they ve been arguing all along, it was a gift, and he knew nothing about it. well, the president s re-election team today releasing a controversial new ad attacking mitt romney s business credentials. the six well, it s a six-minute piece, but the ad that s being launched in several key states is two minutes, and it takes a line of attack that s already been called inaccurate and unfair at least by the washington post, but we re going to let you decide if this one is different. it focuses on governor romney s former firm, bain capital, and its takeover in the early 90s of a small steel mill that more than ten years later after mitt romney had already left bain as its ceo was eventually shut down. here s part of the ad. they issued $125 million of
down in 2008. right. what the president was referring to there was a thinly veiled reference to mitt romney s time at bane capital where the president was saying yeah you can make a profit for your shareholders any means necessary. romney spokesperson yesterday responded to that as can you imagine. she said no matter how many lofty campaign speeches president obama gives the fact remains that american families are struggling on his watch to pay their bills. find a job and keep their homes while president obama all but ignored his record over 2 three years in office. you wonder if romney can take that experience at bane and turn it into a positive? american people are now his shareholders and he doesn t yet done it. mitt romney needs to too more than the. economy improving ever so slowly. will this message that romney is carrying is not good. that this president is not worthy of leadership? he needs to do more according