the streets are just right. i like the fact that most of the cars i see are detroit made automobiles. i drive a mustang and a chevy pickup truck. ann drives a couple of cadillacs actually. couple cadillacs and here we have anyway, what do you think of this? i would argue these aren t gifts, todd. in fact i m going to really stick it to you now. i know these are not gifts. i think these are confessions. i think everything he said there is what he really thinks and only after somebody said why d you say that, governor, did he realize there was something wrong with it. all this stuff is him. couple of cadillacs, the trees are the right head, thinking $340,000 is pocket change. that s who he is. you can deny that? i think there are two issues. the first is, have they stepped on their own story repeatedly, and i think it s indisputable that that s happened. the larger issue, and it s not fun to talk about, doesn t make for great television but the larger issue is whether it matters, and
friend. i drive a mustang and a pick up truck, ann drives a couple cadillacs. when he s out of town it s just out of touch with the people who are not voting for him. with the fact the people who are voting for the other guy. with the people he is losing. if it seems like mitt romney is not a man of the people, he is not a man of the people. and the important thing here is who cares whether he seems like a man of the people? he doesn t need the people. he is winning the most important states in the country by only winning the richest people voting in those states and by losing everybody else. he wins the richest sliver of the population, he doesn t need anybody else s vote. that is not me accusing him of having a bad world view, that is the math. there has been this hand wringing and con steer nation
friend. i drive amu mustang and a pk up truck, ann drives a couple cadillacs. when he s out of town it s just out of touch with the people who are not voting for him. with the fact the people who are voting for the other guy. with the people he is losing. if it seems like mitt romney is not a man of the people, he is not a man of the people. and the important thing here is who cares whether he seems like a man of the people? he doesn t need the people. he is winning the most important states in the country by only winning the richest people voting in those states and by losing everybody else. he wins the richest sliver of the population, he doesn t need anybody else s vote. that is not me accusing him of having a bad world view, that is the math. there has been this hand wringing and con steer nation over the new plan he just released, he released a plan
people and mr. got a couple cadillacs. more days than not, he s got to avoid saying that. he said something yesterday about the base if hillary clinton said four years ago, she would have been killed on. i forget the exact words, i m not going to say things to excite the base. he said you can say outrageous things and excite the base, but i m not going to do that. you re talking about your primary voters. and i think he s got to stop. michael? no, mark, you re making the point. and that s exactly the frustration that a lot of folks around the country in those blue-collar towns and those small towns and big towns around america have with romney is that we want you we want you to say those things that excite us to show us that you get our passion, that you understand what motivates us. it s not just throwing a bomb to be throwing a bomb. that s connected to something. it s connecting to something
hampshire, town halls and small business round tables with 10 or 12 people, get back control of the message but also mitt romney who has the reputation for being stiff loosen up and talk to voters. secondly, brought another tactic in florida, that was this idea of bracketing. romney surrogates, supporters up and down the chain, congressmen and rnc members going to santorum events to hang out talk to reporters and see if they couldn t get under the candidates skin. didn t work as as it did with gingrich. something usesing what worked in past contests. in terms of loosening up the candidate. one of the things the candidate talked about with reporters over some of his gaffes on the campaign trail, in the last few days, talking about his wife having a couple cadillacs. nascar fandom being reduced to personal friendships people who own teams. he was saying he took responsibility for those things and thought they hurt his