small companies and companies across various sectors and it s a good story if he s able to tell it. if his practical election argument is, i m the guy in private business who knows how to create jobs, the obama campaign will say no you don t you destroyed as many jobs as you created and underline that argument. doesn t romney have to take the argument above just how many jobs he create today an almost philosophical level and moral level and to get to your point about here is why the private sector model is better than government growth? of course he does and it was only the beginning of that. it was a step one towards doing that and he has to do that more aggressively and like you say, do it philosophically, he wins that argument. i don t think that first of all, i don t think that there s any evidence that he destroyed more jobs than he created. but, secondly, i mean, this is going to be an election about how the u.s. economy should be be structured. so, that s fundamentally he s
across various sectors and it s a good story if he s able to tell it. if his practical election argument is, i m the guy in private business who knows how to create jobs, the obama campaign will say no you don t you destroyed as many jobs as you created and underline that argument. doesn t romney have to take the argument above just how many jobs he create today an almost philosophical level and moral level and to get to your point about here is why the private sector model is better than government growth? of course he does and it was only the beginning of that. it was a step one towards doing that and he has to do that more aggressively and like you say, do it philosophically, he wins that argument. i don t think that first of all, i don t think that there s any evidence that he destroyed more jobs than he created. but, secondly, i mean, this is going to be an election about how the u.s. economy should be be structured. so, that s fundamentally he s
what we have realized not just what it says on the super committee, but with the debt limit negotiations that preceded them, this is about a different, fundamental difference in the philosophy of government. democrats believe that all of the spending is fabulous and all you need to do is raise taxes and the republicans have come to understand that this government growth is unsustainable and they want to do spending cuts and entitlement reform. those differences, there s no middle ground. so what you have to have is an election and that s what they re fighting over. the republicans think if they had agreed to taxes as part of this, it would have fundamentally hurt them in the election and they have a better shot having stuck to their principles. kim ydo democrats think this is good for them. why did barney frank want it to fail? because they can come out and say, look, we want to preserve they re going to run this year on medicare reform, suggesting that republicans are trying to c
this was really about is the election, okay? what we have realized not just what it says on the super committee, but with the debt limit negotiations that preceded them, this is about a different, fundamental difference in the philosophy of government. democrats believe that all of the spending is fabulous and all youd to d to is raise taxes and the republicans have come to understand that this government growth is unsustainable and they want to do spending cuts and entitlement reform. those differences, there s no middle ground. so what you have to have is an election and that s what they re fighting over. the republicans think if they had agreed to taxes as part of this, it would have fundamentally hurt them in the election and they have a better shot having stuck to their principles. kim ydo democrats think this is good for them. why did barney frank want it to fail? because they can come out and say, look, we want to preserve they re going to run this year on medicare reform,
and many of us believe the balance of power needs to be tipped forward versus this government growth we ve been on. i want to believe that he who shares those ideas will be most electable. the cream of the crop has not risen yet in this process. i m not going to endorse anyone right now. certainly those ideas that i have and many americans share that are pro growth and less constitutional restraint our constitution has in order to build this healthy nation of ours, those ideas that are arctic lated best by candidates will be one ones i endorse. greta: one last question on strategy. former u.s. senator rick santorum. i m wondering what your