that s got to be tough. shelly, what do you expect mitt romney to do? what would you want mitt romney to do? well, we certainly know his history with bain capital, and we understand, well, we don t understand fully what his relationship with bain capital is now, but we certainly believe he has some influence and the workers here really would love for mitt romney to come to our community and talk to the people who are losing their jobs. actually, what we would really love to see is the mayor, and i talked this afternoon, would be for governor romney and president obama to hold a debate in the city of freeport to talk about how to make america more competitive. companies lie like bain capital are in the business of creating wealth. we re in the business of creating jobs. they don t have to be mutually exclusive, but it s difficult to handle those on a local level because it s federal policies that make the difference. we would love to see a debate held in freeport, which is home of one
like romney is nipping at the president s heels? no, the bracketing will be a large part of their strategy. they used it in the primary. it was effective. they used at the santorum events and it was effective. we re going to see a lot more of that. media should be thankful. in some ways it saves you gas is, you go across the street and there he is. gas prices are high. the point is that the romney s campaign is their way of setting is the record straight when the president goes out there and misrepresents his record, the romney campaign is right there to set the record straight. it s an effective campaign strategy, and we re going to see it certainly a lot more of it. i don t see this as much of a strategy but as a bunch of tactics. and actually, ripped from the pages of newt gingrich s hand manual what to do. where is the challenge in the lincoln douglas debates? that s coming next week, a different state. exactly. but i think that what mitt romney really needs to do is
interesting to watch why are so many conservative commentators ganging up on gingrich? president obama s state of the union draws the usual wall to wall television coverage. good evening. while our focus in primetime here in washington tonight will be the president s state of the union address before a joint session of congress at 9:00 p.m. eastern time. to be fair, the attention hasn t been on the president, not for months. within a day the story fades. has the media s attention span grown too short? plus, the new york times reports that a former yale football star withdrew from potential road scholarship after a student filed an informal complaint accusing him of sexual assault. no charges ever filed. is that out of balance? why did the yale daily news sit on the story? i m howard kurtz, and this is reliable sources. if the final days before the primary, newt gingrich needed another strong debate performance to overtake mitt romney. the presidential debates, a
gays can serve openly in the military but our kids can t openly celebrate christmas. we ll talk about perry s new ad up on news nation. tamron hall gives me a great transition to rick perry. rick perry is the latest candidate to say no to donald trump s december 27th debate. in a statement ray sullivan said governor perry talked to donald trumps and respects him and the folks at news max. there are two debates in the next seven days and traditional retail campaigning in the days and weeks leading up to the caucus is the perry campaign s top priority. they said no, mitt romney said no. so far the only confirms are newt gingrich and rick santorum. maybe it turns into one of the lincoln douglas debates which means donald trump would have to be a time keeper. president obama offered a
already, three republicans have said they re going to do it, santorum, bachmann and newt gingrich, newt sat down with donald trump over on the top floor of trump towers. you can see him right there. sean hannity also in attendance yesterday. here is the former speaker on why he s going to be in the trump debate. donald trump is a great showman, he s also a great businessman. if we re trying to figure out how to create jobs, one of the differences between my party and the other party is we actually go to people who know how to create jobs to figure out how to create jobs and so when i was asked whether or not i d be willing to be in that kind of debate, i automatically said yes. i think that we have to be open to new ways of doing things and new ways of approaching things. he s talking about the lincoln douglas debates and he did that with herman cain. when herman cain was beginning to dive and the huckabee forum, newt gingrich doesn t back off