don t always get what they want. eric: before we go, beckel wants to talk about ann romney s comments. go ahead. bring it up. bob: the reason mitt romney said it, she ann romney said it, she has every right to say it, she a big asset to the campaign but getting to the romney campaign. eric: first, clarify what she said. bob: she said they are trying to kill romney. dana: the obama campaign memo entitled kill romney. she is quoting obama. bob: that is one i happen to agree with. kimberly: that is not nice. bob: figuratively. what i said is it s an indication it s working against romney. in ohio, where he has got to win. without ohio he doesn t get elected. obama is now ten points ahead. kimberly: that is a problem. i agree with you. i m telling you, you will see something different once he has a v.p. this is making a case to have somebody get out there and get
ann romney coming to the defense of her husband talking in reference to team obama and their willingness to squash the hopes of mitt romney. she say very strong presence at her husband s side especially in interviews. that is the strongest language she has used. she is more likeable and genuine and more appealing to independent voters. it s not a bad strategy to put ann romney out front. she has been a political spouse for a very long time. she certainly knows that the language of kill romney is certainly not language about actually taking the life or even fund amally taking the character of him away. no one thinks it s a good idea or i don t to use language that sounds violent. it s not acceptable from the right or the left. certainly for a strong voice, it is something general le
don t always get what they want. eric: before we go, beckel wants to talk about ann romney s comments. go ahead. bring it up. bob: the reason mitt romney said it, she ann romney said it, she has every right to say it, she a big asset to the campaign but getting to the romney campaign. eric: first, clarify what she said. bob: she said they are trying to kill romney. dana: the obama campaign memo entitled kill romney. she is quoting obama. bob: that is one i happen to agree with. kimberly: that is not nice. bob: figuratively. what i said is it s an indication it s working against romney. in ohio, where he has got to win. without ohio he doesn t get elected. obama is now ten points ahead. agree with you.t is a i m telling you, you will see something different once he has a v.p. this is making a case to have somebody get out there and get
is ridiculous. allen west, shut up. greg: allen west is a warrior. in my book he gets a pass on everything. this is what makes allen west awesome. he uses the same incendiary language that the left has been using for decades. now you know what it s like, bob. now you know what it s like. bob: incendiary language? greg: black radicals used how about eric: kill romney. that was hyperbole but allen west bob: whoever wrote the memo was a campaign staff. this is a sitting member of congress. eric: you gave one group a pass, the left and the other group you hold the feet to the fire. kimberly: at least he s consistent. bob: i didn t make a comment on chris rock because you went by me. eric: i m talking about obama s camp say kill romney in the memo. that was hyperbole. that was meant bob: giving a speech,
what would prove as compassion would be able to talk about the companies that bain took over when they endureded losses when he and his investors were able to walk away with plenty of cash in their pockets and the workers lost everything. what compassion did she show for them? did he do to help those people get new jobs or make sure they re going to be okay? to me, that s the kind of compassion i m looking for. one other thing i want to mention, i want to correct mrs. romney. remember that when this story first came out, that memo, kill romney, david axelrod made it clear nobody within the campaign used that kind of language and if they had, they would be fired. if we re going to play the tit for tat of what people in the campaign say, they were going to use reverend wright. thanks so much. stay with us.