he made his lurch in the center in one fell swoop. first in denver and then last night on foreign policy. it s a really bold, audacious gambit. it does raise the question and i think the question has been asked for the entire time he s been running for president, what does mitt romney actually believe, bhaes in his heart, what are his core convictions? just making a mistake, if this succeeds, what he s done here, he ll be rewriting the rules for the rule book for presidential politics for years to come. forever. ron, it seems to me though there are reasons to believe why he couldn t escape the commitments he made. he signed on the grover norquist, he put it in blood. he put the grobs on a pat robertson down in liberty university, honorary degree. totally part of the religious right. they re working for free, all these guys around him from the neocon far right, all the hawks that were involved with the iraq war. so how does he break loose from all these eng tanglements? are they part
way over the course of the summer, into the fall. instead, governor romney kept very much in the hard right mode all through the summer and into the early fall, and then suddenly in the debates, in the month of october, he did something really out of character for most presidential candidates. he made his lurch to the center in one fell swoop. first in denver and then last night on foreign policy. it s a really bold, audacious gambit. it does raise the question, and i think the question has been asked for the entire time he s been running for president, what does mitt romney actually believe, what s in his heart, what are his core convictions? just making a mistake, if this succeeds, what he s done here, he ll be rewriting the rules for the rule book for presidential politics for years to come. forever. ron, it seems to me though there are reasons to believe why he couldn t escape the commitments he made. he signed on with grover norquist, he put it in blood. he put the robes on with
who doesn t mean what he says, who will say whatever it takes to get laekelected. by the way, that has been the narrative of romney. that the democrats and the obama campaign dispensed with early. they made the decision to paint him as a latter day barry goldwater because it poll tested bertd than the focus groups when they talked about romney as a flip-flopper. that may be so. romney is a guy that lacks ate lot of core convictions. now obama comes back to it, and that s what he harps on in the debate. do you think we have different expectations for candidates depending on whether they re an incumbent or challenger? in 2008 the president was called no drama obama. one of the things that were appeal about him was he seem, cool, calm and collected in the face of the financial crisis, and that was his demeanor during the debates. when he came out in the first debate, his demeanor similar in that way was judged as aloof and
yeah, it sure does. it makes me disrespect president obama, then candidate obama even more because he believed on principle that in order to defund our troops, the provision was in that legislation, included not releasing those katrina relief funds, it s a whole ball of wax. it s appalling, truly, in order to defund our troops, he took that stand to vote against it? then his speech, greta, it was in order to raise bait. he played chameleon again and engagedin deception, when he again said what he thought people wanted to hear because barack obama has no core convictions that match what america needs for exceptionalism. part of that is the opportunity for all for success. greta: let me turn to last night s debate. i assume you watched it.
yeah, it sure does. it makes me disrespect president obama, then candidate obama even more because he believed on principle that in order to defund our troops, the provision was in that legislation, included not releasing those katrina relief funds, it s a whole ball of wax. it s appalling, truly, in order to defund our troops, he took that stand to vote against it? then his speech, greta, it was in order to raise bait. he played chameleon again and engagedin deception, when he again said what he thought people wanted to hear because barack obama has no core convictions that match what america needs for exceptionalism. part of that is the opportunity for all for success. greta: let me turn to last night s debate. i assume you watched it.