tonight. you had a response david. that s it in a nutshell there. this guy had any sort of connection and wasn t so opaque and secretive, i think a lot would say we gave barack obama a chance, ill give this guy a chance. but he s too far removed and secretive about too many aspects of his life and campaign. and then you throw it we didn t talk about the flip-flops and everything else. it s just a very hard sell at this point in time. michelle, you wanted to add something? i mean, again, it just all comes back to if he seemed comfortable with his story that he was telling, he could be more comfortable with it. voters could embrace it. but he just can t seem to find a narrative that even he can get behind. all right. i didn t want to cut you guys off, but michelle, i don t want to give david the last word. david corn and michelle cottle, thanks for your time tonight. thanks.
funding as to who his bundlers are. and he won t explain his policies like the tax policy issue that came up with most of the tax cuts that he s proposed going to benefit the wealthy. so not only is he awkward and uncomfortable as person as a candidate, there s a lot out there that we still don t know about him that all points in the wrong direction. now, i think, michelle, that s what compounds the problem. when you look at the fact that we don t know how many foreign bank accounts he has, his record as a job creator at bain that he told us to look at his record as bain to find that he is a job creator. how many jobs he s sent overseas as a result of his involvement in bain. and how much he paid in taxes. and at what rate. now, he points us to private sector, his entrepreneurial skills. then when we start looking he says but i m not going to discuss them. i m not going to disclose them.
wasn t so scary. maybe the joke is really on us. joining me now is michelle cato, washington reporter for the daily beast and news week. and david corn for mother jones, an msnbc political analyst and also the author of showdown. first of all, thanks both of you for your time tonight. sure thing. it s our pleasure. david, let me start with you. we re having some fun there with rafalca, but the point here is very serious. mitt romney for this time in history, i mean, what are we looking at here? well, first i have to say those were the most six gripping minutes of olympic sport i ve ever seen today. watching rafalca come around the third turn. though the cantering isn t as articulated as it should be. we learned about the sport and the need for undercar garages
and how to have tax savings offshore. not for tax benefit, just for the heck of it. but i think your summation this evening, reverend, sort of puts into light all the stuff it s creating an impression about mitt romney. if you look at the latest polls, once again we see the public is a bit disappointed or concerned with president barack obama s performance on the economy. we d like the economy to be doing better and him having more results. when they turn to mitt romney, they see someone who doesn t seem to care as much for their concerns as the president. and they still think of him in terms that are close to being a caricature of mr. monopoly, the one percenter. and he keeps making it worse. i think that s the point, michelle. i don t begrudge him being