decades. how do you respond? i think we ve taken several steps to allow people access to this white house, in terms of, in particular, the press. we hold regular conferences, we release participant lists, we give the press the opportunity to come into the room, hear part of the discussion. i would respectfully disagree with that. abby? what do you say about 45% of americans don t believe the president only 45% believe he will keep his promises. given some reversals in the last week, does he risk being seen as a flip floper? i don t think so. i mentioned on the currency, on nato. we talked about this last week. the question in my mind isn t looking at the issue and seeing i mentioned nato. there are certain things. kwrerpbgs on nato, if you go back to september 29th of last
romney is whining about the fact that romney says he is a serial flip-floper. he took one position in the primary and took another today. in the primary i ll sign legislation outlawing abortion. now he is not for that. and now he wants to be for the exception of rai of rape and in. save the life of the mother. he is all over the ballpark. it s fair game to point out that he is inconsistent. romney can t address that. he just says oh, this is terrible he is attacking me. these are legitimate issues to raise. romney has legitimate issues to raise against obama. let s talk about substance. don t whine about wing on in th. heather: obama referring to it as romneynesia. good word, myself. heather: we re in the final days of the campaign. in the spread to finish, as congressman frost says, anything an everything on the table when it comes to what is
among independent voters changed significantly. 44 to 3 #%, there you see. that is a big shift. steve, as promised, your thoughts on how the race has shifted as we get ready to head to danville, kentucky, tomorrow for the vice presidential debate? i think, evidence in the president s meants right there. i think they don t know how to answer this debate surge that romney has had. it s been a surge. it looks like sustained surge. you seen the white house scram to believe come up with an answer. first they said he was too conservative, then a flip-floper and then it was about big bird and he wasn t serious, this was an attempt to go after the deficit, he wasn t serious; whereas, they spent most of the campaign arguing that ryan and romney were radical, they wanted to overturn medicare, redo medicare. they just can t find their footing on solid argument so they are going back to the arguement that romney is a
conviction politician for truth and principle. take back what he said about the friend in the past. call him a flip-floper and worst republican to run against obama. bret: the speech in prime time is ann romney and chris christie. that is what all the networks will carry. we re carrying them as well and streaming other speeches. i agree the christie speech is not all negativity. what is really important is the theme of the republican campaign is that the other side obama, they are out of ideas. they tried their plans for a term. not working. we are willing to say what is going on with the country. the radical reforms they won t use the word radical. christie will talk about his experience as the guy who took on the intractable problems at the state. taking on the teachers union. without fear. that is the theme. we can do it. we are going to look people in the eye. we re going to taken to intractable special interest. we can do this.
there. i understand that. but that is idiotic. that is absolutely nothing. it marks the death of ruggeded individualism. his idea of rugged individualism is wearing sandals in faculty hours, waiting for a check instead of earning one. this is the attitude of somebody who has never had a real job. kimberly: or managed a payroll. anything of the sort like that. all right. dana, what do you think? is this the message he should send out? will it resonate? does it work for america? dana: i thought of this as the john kerry moment of the 2004 campaign. when john kerry said at a town hall meeting i voted before the war before i voted against it. bush campaign said bingo, that s the message. he is a flip-floper and carried through president bush s re-election. when this was said on saturday and the media nodded, okay. nobody paid attention to it. by sunday afternoon, wait a second. conservative media, start to say excuse me, what did he say? now everybody is covering it,