and former secretary of state condoleezzaa rice. our problem with barack obama isn t that he s a bad person, okay. by all accounts he too is a good husband and a good father, and thanks to lots of practice a good golfer. [laughter] our problem is not that he s a bad person. our problem is that he s a bad president. it s important that you realize that you re the best in the world. whether you re a democrat, or whether you re a republican, or a libertarian or whatever, you re the best, and we should not ever forget that, and when somebody does not do the job, we ve got to let them go. if i m elected president of these united states i will work with all my energy and soul to restore that america, to lift our eyes to a better future. that future is our destiny, that future is out there, it is
and what his plans were. the devil is in the details. unfortunately we didn t get enough details. he did humanize himself. marry catherine there were a parade of speak e ers, condoleezzaa rice, nikki haley, it goes on and on and you think mitt romney would do well, and that the g.o.p. party would do ver well with women voters. take look at this poll. president obama 48% among women voters. mitt romney 42%. why doesn t romney do better with women? i think what he did last night was try to humanize himself. what the republican party is looking for to close the gender gap, everybody knows you have to close it a little bit to get a presidential win is for a passport to be heard by women voters. i think that was what the line up of very dynamic, very good women speakers, many of them take being the national stage for the first time and being
rice s fantastic speech and then martinez. i personally thought romney should have picked one of the women to run for vice president, even after last night these are even high quality. but it s a more open approach. it s looking to the future, they are trying to get to big issues. that part of their agenda they need to do has really been worked on and i think effectively. martha: money monica, what do you think? how are they doing with woman this week. first of all, i ll be dammed, it sounds like pat might be a republican. wish on, honey, wish on. i am. i m trying to persuade you, pat. when you look at ann romney, condoleezzaa rice, nikki haley, s urbs sana martinez all of them had star turns. no single speech is going to reverse the single pattern that single women tend to vote for the democratic party. what all these women did this week through presence and words is make it safe for those single
in israel a nation under threat to doubt america s leadership. [cheers and applause] [chanting ] we can t afford to give governments in russia and china a veto over how we defend our interests and the progress of our values in the world. jenna: k. c. mcfarland is a national security analyst. gordon chang author of the coming collapse of china and a nuclear showdown takes on the world. and skwroerb rogue began is a writer at foreign policy magazine. gordon i d like to start with you. you say that condoleezzaa rice and john mccain delivered fine speeches. you thought they were pretty g. you say they represent conventional thinking and that is not what we need right now. what do you think we need. i think we need a little bit of ronald reagan. reagan said we didn t have to
there could be some modifications to that. don t expect a complete overhaul. the vivid hd screens have really lit up the inside of the arena throughout the week here. so then, former secretary of state condoleezzaa rice was on that stage last night focusing on america s position today on the world stage. we can only know that there is no choice because one of two kheupbgs wil things will happen if we don t lead. either, no one will lead and there will be chaos, or someone will if fill the vacuum who does not share our values. my fellow americans, we do not have a choice, we cannot be reluctant to lead, and you cannot lead from behind. [cheers and applause] bill: i want to bring in dan see more, romney campaign adviser to talk about that speech last night. good to be with you. bill: where does america stand,