themselves. is this what the campaign is about? is that how low they have to stoop? they can t run on his record. i feel bad for them. they don t have a record to put out there. sean: i don t feel bad for them. now, mitt romney is the extremist? they don t know what to come up with next because they can t sell their guy s record because it stinks. sean: the president has a half empty house. forced to flip flop. gay marriage was the issue today because it seems that the base is not energized when sean, there is a difference between being good politically on the stump and having good campaign skills when you are out. i think the president and white house gets too much credit for going strategic. i think his inexperience shows regularly. isn t that amazing the prisoner gets 40 plus percent
i think they recognize the fact they are the underdogs, it will be a tough climb. you watched the president yesterday. his campaign skills, his political skills, his oratorical skills are like from another planet, he is so good. when you watch that, i think they have massive respect for him, political skills. but there s a fundamental structural weakness to the obama candidacy, and it s this. if he had been able to accomplish the things he said he was going to accomplish, he wouldn t be running a campaign that is leading with criticism of mitt romney. he would be leading a campaign that s fundamentally about the turn-around in the country. and he s unable to do that. you say he is an underdog, but what could change between now and november. it s all in the elect oral college. the president would have to lose a lot of states he won handily last time. i think he ll have to find a breakthrough either with
governor of massachusetts and what is before the supreme court as they call owncare is the same thing. how much damage did he cause to mitt romney that perhaps will linger with independents, especially. i think the damage he did was just financially extending this campaign. forcing romney to spend down final resources. he is way behind in getting the general election campaign going. getting on par with the campaign. that that, it would have been more damaging to mitt romney had he stayed in this race. had he gone through may. had he possibly won primaries in may and sort of lengthened the. a time that the romney campaign could fully put together. let s remember that some of the santorum s rise had to do with mitt romney s campaign skills. and a lot of it had to do with the fact that he was the last remaining viable anti-romney alternative in the conservative movement. and i think that that is what we ll try to figure out over the
which is really very high. his favorability rating a scant 26%. is that in the end, electorally debilitating? certainly republicans in washington think he is unelectable. he says, gingrich says i ve been attacked by the romney machine. you ve got to respond to those attacks. at times he s done well. when you have republicans strongly criticizing, people that served with gingrich that is going to have an effect and republicans say he can t win over the independents and that is why his poll numbers have plumeted in recent weeks. gregg: there are two theories normally about a nasty protracted primary battle. one, that it makes the eventual nominee stronger because she exposing his weaknesses in advance and elevating his campaign skills. the other is that all of the relentless bashing as you pointed out from fellow republicans not to mention the
very well. i would not want to be a defendant in a court where she s a prosecutor. she is, boy, she is the most improved. isn t that funny though? in the last month her campaign skills have upticked to the point on where she vernlgs ges being an effective candidate. she is. anybody out there who thinks negative ads don t work? wow. they work. look at newt s numbers. he has a lot of baggage, a lot of material to work with. hold on. negative ads, what do you mean? first of all you can talk about negative, unfair attack ads that are completely wrong including one by the way that the mitt romney put out about the president. right. which had something edited incorrectly to mischaracterize him. and then there are ads that just lay it out there. but people knew about here s the thing, mika. people knew about this, about newt. it was all out on the table.