going small. it beats going large and being a flop. that s not her strength. but, i find it simply astonishing that she could campaign by proclaiming one of her big goals is to get big money out of politics. i mean, isn t that a little bit peculiar coming from the clintons who are the most legendary raisers of money who sold the lincoln bedroom among other items in the past and is her cause? she has such an unbelievable inauthenticity problem any time she says something like that i can t take it seriously. we are on the wrong track. her party has been in power for six years. country is running on the wrong track i will put it on the right track? governor christie talking about raising retirement raising social security age. gave us a glimpse much the americans future means testing of entitlement programs. making them more progressive. less generous to the wealthy. he is up against the
debate about taking our troops out of iraq in the middle of the chaos, in the middle of the surge and john mccain, in a move you don t see often in politics staked his campaign and said i believe in this to the degree i would rather lose the election than see this country lose a war in his view. i think that had enormous currency in the republican primary. the inauthenticity problem you say carries forward to 2012, i feel like the attacks on mitt romney are partly in that same vein, partly like you saw in 2008, he s a flip-flopper. is there something else that has emerged as a weakness for him or do you think that is still his achilles heal? if you analogize this to a football game he s a quarterback this week who has shown a propensity to throw a lot of
of southwest airlines from bwi up to new hampshire. the entire campaign for john mccain was based on we have to win new hampshire primary. patience is an under-valued strategic virtue in the campaigns. we took advantage of the fight between mike huckabee and mitt romney in iowa, mike huckabee knocked out mitt romney in iowa. that slowed his momentum in new hampshire. john mccain was able to win in new hampshire, because fred thompson stayed in the race in south carolina, we were able to close out the race. but it s a very different race in 2012. romney still has a hangover of the problems from the 2008 race. in 2008, he entered the race as the conservative candidate. tried to position himself completely and plausibly as the most conservative person in the race. and that gave birth, i think, to the inauthenticity problem he carries forward to today. that was a major part of the architecture of the campaign against governor romney, but at the end of the day, john mccain won that race bec
the inauthenticity problem he carries today. that is a major part of the architecture of the campaign against governor romney, but at the end of the day, john mccain won that race because the issue of the hour was the withdrawal debate about taking our troops out of iraq in the middle of the chaos, in the middle of the surge and john mccain in a move you don t see often in politics staked his campaign and said i believe in this to the degree i would rather lose the election than see this country lose a war in his view. i think that had enormous currency in the republican primary. the inauthenticity problem you say carries forward to 2012, i feel like the attacks on mitt romney are partly in that same vein, partly in 2008, he s a flip-flopper. is there something else that has emerged as a weakness for him or do you think that is still his