gun, bob schrum, you heard congresswoman mccarthy say look, it s a myth that the 94 assault weapons ban hurt democrats politically. the reality is that we may believe that it s just lunacy for somebody who arm up like that but there s not really a gun control debate in politics anymore. no, it isn t. i think the issue is settled. i was on a phone call with house speaker south po eer foley, dicd the president when he decided to push ahead with the assault weapons ban and the brady bill, which have now both expired. foley and gephardt said this is going to cost us a lot of democratic seats in the midterm and it did. the situation has gotten worse. you can t even get congress to prohibit people who are on the terrorist watch list from buying weapons, they won t accept that. david, you re right, we re going to have to focus on the person because we re not going to be able to do anything about the guns. we ve reached a state of stopping on this issue and we re not going to move on.
i don t care about the issue. can you think about a president who was qualified or disqualified about taxes? what s relevant is who the guy is. his family had gone across the west, poverty, building an empire, poverty, building an empire. he can t talk about it because it involves mormonism. he is a decent guy but he is not willing to talk about it. he s a hidden man. so one of the turning points in this campaign is when he comes out and if he can come out. and i don t know why they re waiting so long. the second thing is, as michelle said, people i personally find this incredibly election incredibly boring pause the two campaign staffs are on their iphones and responding to whatever the other campaign did five minutes ago and rest of us just don t care. bob. i think romney for the reasons he was talking about does make him a hidden figure and a punching bag. my agreement with steve is that if you set a definition of somebody in the summer, they have got to live with that
are going to be looking for. you talk excitement, we go to some of the top candidates being discussed. you ve got governor bobby jindal from louisiana who s on that list, tim pawlenty, former governor of minnesota and rob portman, the senator from ohio. justin bieber dined alone. such excitement. you know, i personally think portman is the right pick. look, something is going to happen in the world. the big political event that happened last week was the spanish bonds went crazy. that means the european crisis is more likely. the iranian crisis has gotten more likely as israel s patience has begun to wear thin. so two big things are possible over the next 107 days. so you want a vice presidential candidate who seems up to that. so i d go for the boring, brave guy. interesting. on that list you all can weigh in on whatever, but the other thing we re talking about as a turning point is going to be the convention. bob, a lot of people watching. it is an opportunity not just for the
some of the top candidates being discussed. you ve got governor bobby jindal from louisiana who s on that list, tim pawlenty, former governor of minnesota and rob portman, the senator from ohio. justin bieber dined alone. such excitement. you know, i personally think portman is the right pick. look, something is going to happen in the world. the big political event that happened last week was the spanish bonds went crazy. that means the european crisis is more likely. the iranian crisis has gotten more likely as israel s patience has begun to wear thin. so two big things are possible over the next 107 days. so you want a vice presidential candidate who seems up to that. so i d go for the boring, brave guy. interesting. on that list you all can weigh in on whatever, but the other thing we re talking about as a turning point is going to be the convention. bob, a lot of people watching. it is an opportunity not just for the candidate to make a big speech but to also have some high-pro
new york times /cbs poll. bob schrum, does somebody have an advantage beyond the numbers that shows this is a razor-tight race? i think there are a couple of things underneath these numbers that are actually pretty good for the president. first of all, as nate silver from the times has pointed out, the president has led in 80 pgt of t 80% of the polls in the swing states. secondly, romney is losing hispanics by 48 points. as steve will tell you, you can t lose hispanics by 48 points, be a republican candidate and get elected president. thirdly, i think romney insisted so strongly that this was purely a referendum. if you feel badly about the economy, vote for me, i m not going to tell you much else about myself, that he opened a way for the president to define him during what i regard as a critical summer season. i think when you look at the numbers there s some news in there that s very bad for president obama. the fact is that the approval level for people his handling