talking about the birther movement and the extremism, not what mitt romney is trying to advocate, they re confident this is going to play out in their favor. gentlemen, thanks so much. appreciate it. next on news nation, the fight for veterans votes. i love the men and women of our armed forces and appreciate their sacrifice for this great nation. mitt romney vows to make things better for veterans, if elected president. details on a new poll that gives romney a double-digit lead over the president among vets. facebook, stock falling to a new low after the rocky first week. join our conversation on twitter. emily s just starting out. and on a budget.
gone to companies like solyndra linked to big obama and democrat donors. obama giving taxpayer money to big donors. and then watching them lose it. nbc news senior political editor mark murray joins us live from washington. mark, than ad is an attempt to muddy the talk about the bain enterprises that went bellbelly that did the same thing. that s right. over the last two weeks we have been debating bain and seen examples of two of the companies, the democrats want to highlight and pad in the early 1990s as well as gts steel. what the romney s campaign doing is talk about the worst examples when private equity didn t work, let s have some examples of when public equity, the stimulus, didn t work, and they re using the solyndra case to say, look, here is an example, president obama overseeing something that didn t work out as well. now i would make the point there
of course a lot of veteran are dissatisfied, and then the other question is, one of sort of overall funding for the military. i mean you know mitt romney is really pushing hard on this idea that president obama wants to gut the military, wants to cut funding for all branches as part of the debt deal that he made last year, earlier this year. you ll have that conversation that mitt romney thinks that he can win and you know the question is whether those topics will be enough to kind of outweigh the accomplishments that the obama administration will claim. as you talk about that yesterday mitt romney told the audience that he was speaking to that he wouldn t take the path to europe is taking and cut the size of our nation s military. take a listen to that. the others to commit to preserve america as the strongest military in the world second to none with no comparable power anywhere in the world. we choose that course in america not so we win wars but so we can
welcome back. we continue with reaching out for the veteran vote in decision 2012. earlier today mitt romney tried to connect with military members during an event in colorado. he told the crowd how 4 was touched by vets he met monday and how selflessly they gave themselves to their country. i love the men and women of our armed forces and appreciate their sacrifice for this great nation. they give themselves something bigger than themselves, their country, their family. during the commemorations yesterday, president obama had a special message to veterans especially those to the vietnam war from you kocame home and sometimes denny graded instead of selee greated. it was a national shame, a disgrace. that should have never happened.
is one big difference between private equity and public equity, when companies didn t do well, democrats are pointing out bain and its partners still made a lot of money that it wasn t the case when you have something like the stimulus president obama, democrats weren t making money though those firms like solyndra went belly under. web ads for people to see. mitt romney went on the attack during the campaign appearance, the stump in the key swing state of colorado. take a look at this. i want our government to support small business, middle size business, big business. i want jobs. i want government that s an ally of business, not an enemy of business. the romney campaign is telling our team it s message is that president obama is quote hostile to job creators. so that that s the narrative they want to cast and honestly, that is a narrative that s been out there, whether even though it s debunked by a lot of people over the past 3 1/2 years romney