undecided voters have not been paying close attention. mitt romney has not appeared on a late night show since winning the nomination. he was on kelly and meekal with his wife online. he talked about not wanting to go on saturday night live in the secretly recorded remarks where he said the 47%. why do you think he has such a different strategy? well, first of all, i don t think romney is as good as obama on comic timing. the other thing is, you know, there s been a lot of gaffes from the romney campaign when he goes out there and kind of talks ad hoc. right now, there s probably more of a strategy of don t put him in situations where it may be more of a risk. the last time mitt romney was on the tonight show, jay leno actually gave him this word association game. and he came off it pretty well but i don t think the campaign
he s brought through that period and into the current one with his organizations like crossroads. this is their kind of politics. they should recognize that s how these elections get played out throughout america. that s what the founders intended, a vigorous contest and ask the historians who look at abraham lincoln s time. there s nothing particularly dirty about this time. ramping up the rhetoric, i mean, clearly, that s what they re doing. how does romney benefit in any way from this? why doesn t he tell them the back off and get to the fact because it s all a lot of generic hateful talk and scare and fear tactics and such as that. how does romney benefit from that? first up, i don t think romney is in a position to tell the party anything. if anything, they re telling him
his organizations like crossroads. this is their kind of politics. they should recognize that s how these elections get played out throughout america. that s what the founders intended, a vigorous contest and ask the historians who look at abraham lincoln s time. there s nothing particularly dirty about this time. ramping up the rhetoric, i mean, clearly, that s what they re doing. how does romney benefit in any way from this? why doesn t he tell them the back off and get to the fact because it s all a lot of generic hateful talk and scare and fear tactics and such as that. how does romney benefit from that? first up, i don t think romney is in a position to tell the party anything. if anything, they re telling him what to do just like wausw we st week with the health care mandate and if it was a tax. they can t exert central organization in any way.
but the end result is that it will do that. i think on the same token, i don t think romney is saying that because, you know, it s going to energize his base. but the fact of the matter is, it does energize his base. there are a lot of christian conservatives that probably wouldn t have supported romney that might now do it if their single voter issue, if they re single issue voters. i think this is a deeply held view by romney. i don t think we should diminish the feelings he has. this is part of his religion and he s entitled to his opinion. i believe he s wrong and i believe history will show that he is wrong on this. i think, you know, my good friend and colleague chad griffin was on earlier with andrea mitchell and he said this will be there will never be another president who will not support marriage equality. i think that s right. thank you. good luck with the latest film. great filmmaker.
out something interesting, i don t think obama came out in favor of same sex marriage to build his donor base, but it will do that. i think on the same token, i don t think romney is saying that because, you know, it s going to energize his base. the fact of the matter is it does energize his base. there are a lot of conservatives that would not have supported romney that might do it now if their single voter issue voters. but i think this is a deeply held view by romney, and i don t think we should diminish those feelings that we have. it s part of his religion, and he s entitled to his opinion. i believe he is wrong, and i believe history will show that he is wrong on this. my good friend, chad griffin was on earlier, and he said there