romney s record in massachusetts again. that s right, trace. president obama s new attack ad on romney is going to run in nine battleground states. the slot slams romney s governor of massachusetts being 47th nationwide in job growth. allegedly amassing $18 billion in state debt. the romney campaign says that s false. arguing that romney balanced the massachusetts budget four years in a row created jobs. got the state s credit rated upgraded and left a rainy day surplus. while the ad hits romney s governor as massachusetts the president himself going after romney s business record. listen. when i hear governor romney say his 25 years in the business sector gives him and understanding why the economy works. my question is why are you running with the same bad ideas that brought our economy to the brink of disaster? romney of course argues that the president s policies have not grown the economy added a trillion dollars in debt and the u.s. credit rating has actually been downgrade
bob: i would like to quote romney before this happened. to spend billions to go after one person is a waste of time. eric: we weren t going there. president obama highlights the record on green jobs and hits romney for being a job creator. is that a winning argument? be right back. let me tell you about a very important phone call i made. when i got my medicare card, i realized i needed an aarp. medicare supplement insurance card, too. medicare is one of the great things about turning 65, but it doesn t cover everything. in fact, it only pays up to 80% of your part b expenses. if you re already on or eligible for medicare, call now to find out how an aarp.
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the nomination a stronger candidate in november and he will have had toence at questions and deal with the issues and a lot of this stuff old news and he will be able to go after the president on the things that we mentioned at the top? i think that is kool-aid, rick. think that was true in the case of obama and hillary because there was no idealogiccal divide. two candidates. some people liked one and some people liked the other but the base of the party was not divided. this looks more to me like 1980 where you had a real idealogiccal battle within the party where people divided not only in terms of who they supported but what they believed in and where the hits romney is taking right now are hits that go directly to his character, his competence, whether he is part of the elite, whether he understands the problems of people like us. i think romney has, frankly, shrunk in this campaign as opposed to obama who, frankly, got big. interesting analysis as always from susan estrich.
and i m pretty clear about that. i am a middle class. my dad was an army officer. i find powerful, rich people rigging games very distasteful. powerful rich people. gosh, he s not one of them. nor is rick perry who s going all over south carolina comparing romney and his bain buddies to scavengers with wings as he did just hours ago. we need to have more venture capitalism going on in america and less vulture capitalism. the idea that we can t criticize someone for these get rich quick schemes is not appropriate from my perspective. now, the air is already well under way in south carolina and coming to a television near you. gingrich, romney, perry and their superpacs socking millions in ad buys and none of them are pretty. the ads i mean. take the gingrich pac add add that hits romney and company as corporate raiders and ads that