interview, mitt romney also made this admission. from time to time, i ve been audited, as happens, i think, to other citizens as well, and the accounting firm which prepares my taxes has done a very thorough and complete job paying taxes as legally due. joining me now, co-host of msnbc s the cycle, steve kornacki and newsweek special correspondent, michael tomaski. his latest article is on mitt romney s wimp factor. mike, jan crawford of cbs actually asked mitt romney how he feels about you calling him a wimp. let s take a look at that. i just got a copy of a newsweek cover that s going to be hitting the newsstands tomorrow that calls you a wimp. have you seen this? ha-ha, no. does that concern you? is that fair? they tried that on george herbert walker bush. he was a pretty great president and anything but. but it did hurt him, to some
msnbc s the cycle, steve kornacki and newsweek special correspondent, michael tomaski. his latest article is on mitt romney s wimp factor. mike, jan crawford of cbs actually asked mitt romney how he feels about you calling him a wimp. let s take a look at that. i just got a copy of a newsweek cover that s going to be hitting the newsstands tomorrow that calls you a wimp. have you seen this? ha-ha, no. does that concern you? is that fair? they tried that on george herbert walker bush. he was a pretty great president and anything but. but it did hurt him, to some extent, that narrative did. are you worried about what the media is saying here in this kind of story line that gets out there, and how do you counter that? if i worried about what the media said, i wouldn t get much sleep, and i m able to sleep pretty well. has anyone ever called you a
so, the more these kinds of things come out, i think the harder it is for people to trust him. secondly, i hope as democrats, though, we focus on what is so important in the substance of this, as keith was pointing out, which is the system works. the point is, it is a lower i mean, cost of gdp. it does provide better health care. there are people in israel, are healthier than we are, there are better outcomes. so, again, if we could move in that direction, we might actually be a healthier country. so both from a substantiative perspective, as well as the political, this is a good idea. keith, to go back to a point that mike tomasky raises in his newsweek cover about romney being a wimp, that seems to be what many conservatives are actually relaying on. they have said, look, we don t care what that guy this is. we are going to give him orders, when he is in there, in the white house. we will control him, pause he s a wimp, because he doesn t think anything. yeah, he s sitting ne
which he now repudiates and won t discuss. this is a guy who has no backbone when it comes to talking to the right wing of his party. everything they want him to do, he does. when rush limbaugh says jump, he says, how high? and he just he doesn t present as a guy who really has a core inside him. he presents as a guy who will just say whatever it is he has to say to get those people to like him. mike, do we now have, finally, a counterpoint to your wimp case? and that he s now held his ground for months on the matter of releasing anymore tax returns. has romney finally found his spine on something? that s an odd thing to develop a backbone about it, but i suppose maybe you could make that argument. but, actually, that s another instance of what i m talking about. you know, if he doesn t have anything to hide, if he has
care. their people in israel are healthier than we are. there are better outcomes. so, again, if we could move in that direction, we might actually be a healthier country. so both from a substantiative perspective, as well as the political, this is a good idea. keith, to go back to a point that mike tomasky raises in his newsweek cover about romney being a wimp, that seems to be what many conservatives are actually relying on. they have said, look, we don t care what that guy thinks. we are going to give him orders, when he is in there, in the white house. we will control him because he s a wimp, because he doesn t think anything. yeah, he s sitting next to sheldon adelson, this casino billionaire from las vegas in israel at this huge fund-raiser and this guy, you know is telling him what he s going to have to say, what he s going to have to do. it makes you wonder, does mitt romney really believe in all of this? i kind of disagree with karen on one point. i don t think that the