past, what you said before doesn t matter now. when it comes to his public character, he doesn t have the core. jordan lieberman is the managing director of campaign grid and the former senior advisor to hillary clinton for president campaign and the managing director of the porter novelli public services. nice to have both of you this morning. kiki, let s start with you. smart strategy managing a campaign looking at somebody and calling him a flip-flopper repeatedly, is that smart for the obama administration keeping going after romney this way? the variety of candidates but mitt romney has a record not only has a former presidential candidate but as a governor of massachusetts and a candidate for the senate. i happened to work on the campaign of senator kennedy when mitt romney tried to challenge him and there s a record and a history. that s what campaigns are about. they re about taking a look at where somebody has been and where they say they ll go and romney has got a record
guest: somewhere, political professionals, lee at water is crying. this is amateur hour and it will raise herman cain a lost money but it diminishes his credibility as a potential president of the united states. clayton: is that what it is, people are saying, we saw in the wall street journal , questioning herman cain s viability as a candidate among conservative circles starting to question whether or not he could really pull this off. is this ad underlying that? guest: you are right. listen, he will raise a lot of money on the ad and he will lose a load of credibility. so he will be diminished as a candidate. jordan lieberman, managerring director of campaigngrid. the calls for eric holder to resign doubling, and a
some new campaign ads are rolling out for the labor day weekend. what s the secret to success in getting the message across to voters? let s ask jordan lieberman because he s the vice president of the campaign grid and former publisher of campaign and elections magazine. good morning to you. what the heck is that noise? doing some construction. i take it that s not anyone s ad because that would be a downer. that s right. let s take a look at meg whitman s ad, she s running for governor out in california. let s watch. you could tell even back in early 1999 when e bay was a small company that meg knew what she was doing. she had this ability to come to a very confusing situation, take a look and figure out what the right thing to do is. there was no playing things loose or close to the edge. we were going to do things the right way because ultimately, that s the way you build a company to last. she was always asking us to
we see all kinds of things where liberals are being mainstream and doing things inappropriate for public discourse. like what? like throwing eggs at leaders. throwing eggs versus seeing a joker face? we re talking about the elected president of the united states, and saying things like obama back to kenya? i don t know, throwing eggs? that s a little different. none of that is appropriate, but the reality is ilt s on bot sides. okay, jordan lieberman, president of the naacp. we ll be talking about this a little bit more as we wait for official word from the tea party movement or any leading member of that movement to speak about mark williams now being expelled. in the meantime, mark williams, the man at issue here, who was expelled as the leader of the tea party express, well, he was supposed to appear on don lemon s newscast at 7:00 this