of neil gorsuch and brett kavanaugh for the supreme court, those are all things i can imagine a president romney doing or a president paul ryan didn t senator romney just say that? he said don t like how he behaves, but look at all those great things he s done. love those taxes, love those judges. but for a lot of americans, both i think conservative americans and liberal americans, and people who don t like to align themselves with politics at all but are worried right now, donald trump is not just the next republican president, he s a special kind of crisis. he s a special kind of departure from what even had been republican politics in the past. do you see that or just the next republican? i see him as what happens when corruption invades a system, that it gets a little bit corrupt and a little more corrupt and a little more corrupt and then it gets bigger
over and over to pay off the big donors, make sure they get their part. and leave everybody else behind. that s what this is about. those specific things you just mentioned, repealing health care, the tax cuts, the choice of neil gorsuch and brett kavanaugh for the supreme court, those are all things i can imagine a president romney doing or a president paul ryan didn t senator romney just say that? he said don t like how he behaves, but look at all those great things he s done. love those taxes, love those judges. but for a lot of americans, both i think conservative americans and liberal americans, and people who don t like to align them severals with politics at all but are worried right now, donald trump is not just the next republican president, he s a special kind of crisis. he s a special kind of departure from what even had been republican politics in the past.
going to overshadow sort of whether it s the playfulness of the al smith dinner or the performative aspects of the debate. let me be clear i think that s good. you know, maybe it s not good at this particular moment for this particular campaign, but the fact is that the kind of theatrics we see in debating, while interesting and fun and enjoyable for us to sort of have a little bit of political theater have little to do with governing and so because the challenger is not currently running a government anywhere or even running a business anywhere, that sort of, you know, week and a half after that debate became all romney because that s all we had romney doing. president obama is governing the country. that means we re going to have a focus on this. that said, i think that there is it s a slippery slope for the republicans who took us into the war in iraq, based on false hoods and where the number of american lives, the number of foreign lives and the amount of money spent after years
answer was incredibly telling. he started talking about oil in venezuela. the issues you want your republican candidate to have he will not set the country in the same path the last republican president set country on. that is the fundamental truth of the campaign that s been obscured i think by romney doing a classic business presentation style, right, when you re asked a question at a business presentation you respond with a number. i have three things to say about that, here they are you present three macro things, it makes you sound serious. romney s counting on the business presentation style that herman cain used. i give you a number 9-9-9. that makes me sound like i m give you specifics even when i m not. he really just wants to do everything bush did. that s been the republican economic philosophy for 30 years. they re not going to change it because they have a din guy as their standard bearer. cutting taxes for the wealthy is their basic economic principle for everything.
rate and broaden the base of taxation. it s done in 1986 by ronald agan and tip o neil in bipartisan way. what the economists right, left or center may have to do. we may have different opinions how to do it. but they believe it will result in the economic growth. that s why romney doing that will create 7 million new jobs. pro-growth policy. bret: don t you think they are making some headway in saying well, what exactly are you going to take off the table? mortgage deduction? charitable deduction? it s making headway because they spend hundreds of millions of dollars on ads and they have been saying it for months. when romney stands up there as he has and say this will be deficit neutral, revenue neutral and it can, all the studies have shown that, check out the american enterprise institute study or studies to find on mittromney.com, studies from harvard, princeton and other places. second, what romney can say is it creates jobs. it s pro-growth. economists across the board