w. bush over eight years. we were bleeding 800,000 jobs a month when our president took the oath. the deficits were soaring and he had two wars on the credit card, osama bin laden was running loose, detroit was about to go under. mitt romney said let detroit go bankrupt. he didn t think it was a big deal to focus attention on osama bin laden. he wouldn t have gone into pakistan to get him. i mean, when you listen to mitt romney, it s fantasy land. and now and i want to get to your question, yes, we re not going to pass a conservative agenda because the american people are mainstream. that s what we hear all the time. we re a mainstream country. do you think we re going to go back to the days when women were criminals if they exercised their right to choose when being a woman was a preexisting condition and we had to pay so much more than a man for health insurance policy?
climate has become. how about amy in. i m recommending a story by my horse, shannon mccaffrey of the atlanta constitution. we were the only two women of a certain age who spent time on a newt gingrich campaigning bus. how about you, jimmy williams? what s your must-read? i think america should go back four years ago, and look at the papers and look at the headlines to let, let detroit go bankrupt. and where mitt romney said that the car industry could kiss its destiny good-bye. he was wrong then, he was wrong now and we ll see what happens on tuesday. that was a bold look back and something those sentiments have been echoed many times of those who oppose mitt romney. that s a wrap, everyone of this sunday edition of weekends
there is no question that the auto industry is lethal for romney in ohio. that story was told during the summer. the bain story was told during the summer and he lives with it. by the way, he didn t write that headline. let detroit go bankrupt. but he adopted it. he doubled down on it in a television interview and said yes, that s exactly what i was saying. is there a motivational pitch being made by rove to make people feel good about the fact they re still with this thing in a big way in ohio and do you think it s going to be as close as he says it s going to be? i think nationally you re going to see some more movement toward the president. i think he s going to win ohio by four, five, six points. i think the nbc poll out there is probably right. but rove does have this belief that if you say you re going to win, then you re likely to win. the difficulty with that is even he s getting scared. he s done this interview with the washington post where he said the hurricane helped
when romney started running and obama started running, they knew the game was to get the math of the electoral college. right now the problem mitt romney is ohio. and i think if he had not written that op-ed piece let detroit go bankrupt, i think he would have been the next president of the united states. it s killed him in northern ohio and has become a firewall for the obama campaign. i spoke to some folks who say if president obama wins a second term, he immediately joins the league of great presidents. what s your take? he has an opportunity to be that because it s hard to do much in four years. but in obama s case, he ate up the oxygen of his first 18 months in office on obama care. affordable care act. if he loses, romney has said he s going to try to disassemble all that. so he loses president obama s main accomplishment. now he still has the killing of
romney s struggle in ohio was in the 2008 op-ed called for a managed bankruptcy but said the government should only guarantee private loans. detroit needs a durn around not a check. the piece was titled let detroit go bankrupt. romney survived the primary gaunt let and let republican super pacs hammer the president on the hair. the campaign spend a lot of time defining romney before romney was able to define obama. he was criticized for taking a week off in july. and for bungling that foreign trip to england, israel and poland. he announced paul ryan as his running mate but that didn t produce the bump he needed. as the focus of the race turned to medicare and the ryan budget. the republican convention was