right. is it smart to say you re a right winger even if he is a more moderate than he portrayed himself as. what is the smart move? for the democrats. what they re doing right now i think if they can do it. if they want to pin mitt romney in the corner as we said before, that he put himself in, in the primary campaign. and it s up to mitt romney to explain a coherent theory of who he is, why he is running, and where he really stands after having survived the primary season. he has an opportunity to do that barack obama s campaign is essentially going to try to be about mitt romney, barack obama is not really going to run on his record. he s going to run on mitt romney. myth r mitt romney is too extreme, too crazy. that presents an opportunity for
drought as they could, they wanted to emphasize the flip-flop message because wanted to make the right wing of the republican party fearful of mitt rom a romney. they wanted as much discord as possible. as soon as rom any wraps it up, they move to a different strategy. it didn t help barack obama in the general election match up, but they were trying to monkey with the republican race as much as they could. now they re in general election mode, and i think they are taking bill clinton s advice. if they want to win the middle, they have to push who is this guy. let me ask you a question. is myth romney the moderate governor we knew, pro-choice, proenvironmental, was a individual mandate kind of guy. most would have said not bad, not a very popular governor, but
mitt romney to run. no, if he can take it. it s like the ronald reagan thing. if mitt romney can jujitsu it i didn t mean to say grand wizard, i want to make it very clear, i believe this. if romney will denounce all of the birtherism, not trying to make barack obama a foreigner,ly be with him on that point. you know none of those guys do that stuff. howard fineman, thank you for joining us. coming up, claire mccaskill. let s watch her fight, she is coming here, ready to fight.
service scandal to reach the white house, trying to taint the president in this mess? plus a long favored guest here at hardball is is facing a hard reelection. can she win with the so-called superpacs and the people behind the supreme court that created these menaces. let s hear from her tonight. and we said the obama people are dropping the mitt romney flip flop flap charge. now we have the evidence. this is the plan. look who is cheering him on, the political master himself, bill clinton. we begin with the trial of john edwards. the executive director of the citizens group citizens for responsibility and ethics in washington. and a north carolina attorney who is right there in court today.
the same time romney said let them die. in missouri, the gm factory just added a second shift. in kansas city at the ford plant, a billion dollar investment is being made now. we held on to the notion that we can say made in america when it comes to automobiles. that was worth saving. everybody that wants to slam the stimulus needs to realize that general motors took over as the number one manufacturing in the wor world. that would not happen. it was brought about by the same policies that romney is trying to sell the country right now. they want to go back to figuring out way to give more and more tax breaks to the mega wealthy and less and less regulation in