united states of america, our republic because i knew that it was my obligation to insure that president obama s program of socialized medicine was stopped before it became fully implemented. and so my message has been for the necessity of the complete repeal of obamacare in this once in a lifetime campaign cycle for the presidency because obamacare represents the largest expansion of entitlement spending in our country s history and it is now become the playground of left-wing social engineering where the right will always lose every battle and the left already has been given the formula for passing their agenda. it must be stopped. and its repeal is more than just a cliche for me. it is essential to my core of conviction because obamacare violates our fundamental liberties as americans including for the first time in the history of
then she has tumbled, tumbled in a pretty intense way in the polls. it s really unclear why because she has at least at the beginning she had done pretty well in debates. she had been here campaigning very hard. she, like rick santorum at the end of this campaign, was around the state. she did all 99 counties. guess what, she was even born here. she was born in water loo, iowa. she is a native daughter of the state. she did not do very well. very disappointing. at the end of the day, suzanne, you know this. you ve covered many campaigns. you need money to go on. if you re not doing well, the money dries up and that is a critical problem for her. it s a mystery. she actually won that straw poll back over the summer here. do we have any sense of why her campaign just didn t gain the traction that was necessary? you know, she was competing with other candidates here who were pretty strong when it came to being socially conservative, which is really where she was appealing. t
that s not something i m planning today, but never say never. but if you were president, it s not that hard to make a commitment that if you re elected president of the united states, that you would release the tax returns. every president does. you know, if i become president, why then i ll consider that. it s a little premature for me to be talking about that at this stage. is there some secret? people know you re wealthy. yeah, i understand. there s nothing to hide? no, a degree. there s nothing to hide. that was andrea mitchell talking to mitt romney about his decision not to release his income tax returns. you ll see more of her interview at the top of the hour. but speaking of hiding, 2011 seemed to be a year of ducking and dodging questions and explaining away the unexplainable. here s a look at this year s best excuses. excuse me. i don t think right wing social engineering is any more desirable than left wing social engineering. any ad which quotes what i sai
challenges america faces that is a dramatic reading from the most famous real press release of the 2012 campaign, performed by john lithgow. on may 19, the author of that press release was long time gingrich spokesman rick tyler who was responding to the tidal wave gingrich was getting after the seemingly disastrous enter swu with david gregory on meet the press where gingrich criticized the republican man of the year paul ryan. i don t think right wing social engineering has any more desirable than left wing social engineering. i don t think imposing radical change from the right or the left is a very good way for a free society to operate. i think we need a national conversation to get to a better medicare system with more choices for seniors. but not what paul ryan is suggesting. i think that is too big a jump. i m against obamacare which is imposing radical change and i ll
that is a dramatic reading from the most famous real press release of the 2012 campaign, performed by john lithgow. on may 19, the author of that press release was long time gingrich spokesman rick tyler who was responding to the tidal wave gingrich was getting after the seemingly disastrous enter swu with david gregory on meet the press where gingrich criticized the republican man of the year paul ryan. i don t think right wing social engineering has any more desirable than left wing social engineering. i don t think imposing radical change from the right or the left is a very good way for a free society to operate. i think we need a national conversation to get to a better medicare system with more choices for seniors. but not what paul ryan is suggesting. i think that is too big a jump. i m against obamacare which is imposing radical change and i ll be against a conservative radical change.