at least he stood up and said your voice is heard. if the congress won t act, by god, i will ask. chuck rocha one of the best latino voices in the country. thank you, ed. the politics of failure. find out have romney is telling rick scott will you please shut up on this economy thing down there in florida. republicans are busy going after eric holder while student loan rates double in ten days. the president is calling them out. stay tuned. i went to a small high school.
conservative presidents where we had higher tax rates. i don t think that really wash. i disagree with the way that krystal put it, i don t think that romney got a great bounce but the discomfort with him has faded. his ratings were in the high 50s and they dipped back below 50% largely because he s consolidated republicans. that s vital for him, because even if it s a referendum election on obama, he s got to have something like half the country not disliking him. one thing on this, lawrence, government-run economy thing, this line for romney is actually not totally new. i don t know if you remember in the presidential in the republican primary debates, he repeatedly said this thing of we re only inches away from losing our free market economy. and that was a statement that politi fact gave him three pants on fire ratings for because he kept saying it. that s very much an echo of that same logic which is obviously clearly false. ari, when he talks about this
that s vital for him, because even if it s a referendum election on obama, he s got to have something like half the country not disliking him. one thing on this, lawrence, government-run economy thing, this line for romney is actually not totally new. i don t know if you remember in the presidential in the republican primary debates, he repeatedly said this thing of we re only inches away from country not disliking him. one thing on this, lawrence, government-run economy thing, this line for romney is actually not totally new. i don t know if you remember in the presidential in the republican primary debates, he repeatedly said this thing of we re only inches away from losing our free market economy. and that was a statement that politi fact gave him three pants on fire ratings for because he kept saying it. that s very much an echo of that same logic which is obviously clearly false. ari, when he talks about this massive government expansion that will take away our economic
house. you have the sessions, women in the economy thing, which, you know, speaks to a particular part of the base he needs to fire up. now you ve got the youth, you know, the youth rallies all week. remember, one of the central tenets of the occupy wall street movement to the extent it had central tenets was college debt forgiveness. this is speaking to that group. going around, like in the santa claus phase of the obama presidency. he is giving gifts to all of the people he wants to vote for him. i think among young people there are probably backfire potentially. what was appealing about obama he seemed to be different. he was the unpolitician, new leader. post political. he said post partisan, but to see him doing this stuff, ordinary garden variety, typical politics i think diminishes that. it hurts him. bret: can he recapture the imagination of young people? absolutely not. it s done.
it pairs with this new mitt romney op-ed in foreign policy magazine. he says, quote, in his dealings with the kremlin as in his dealings with the rest of the world president obama has demonstrated breathetaking weakness. here is the reason why the republican vs these new talking points. the romney campaign is thinking this is their new thing. this is their new approach against president obama. economy thing maybe not working out so they are resetting the romney campaign as a foreign policy campaign. whether or not you are fan of president obama s approach to foreign policy, here is the hiccup for the romney campaign with this new approach. they can t just say, president obama is wrong on foreign policy. they have to also make it seem like mitt romney would be better and that s hard to do when you re mitt romney. i also think we have learned that our troops shouldn t go off and fight a war of independence for another nation.