to the russian president. he said he didn t have to worry about constitutional requirements, governor? flexibility. the whole idea of our government is the checks and balances of three branches with equal power not somebody who believes he can ignore the law and put in what he wishes to do. chris: kirsten, when one party is holding a convention traditionally the other goes off the stage and takes a week off but the democrats nort aret going to be doing this. barack obama on some college campuses and joe biden was until the weather hit going to be down here in florida and michelle obama making a bunch of high profile appearances. smart politics? definitely. i think they he always do some of counter programming. the only thing that was outside kind of the normal behavior would have been biden coming down here. they are trying define romney in the period where they still feel he is unknown and trying to define him as this extremist and radical and continue to use the todd akin t
i reserve judgment until after the debate. i still think romney has the leading hand in this because he goes into it looking at a record that is pretty dismal. he has got a successful record he can lay on the line for america. chris: juan? if you look at the swing states which are the critical states and i think it boils down at this point to seven. you have to say obama has the advantage. but it is not a great advantage so in terms of the electoral college he also has an advantage. in terms of public perception if you ask people as the poll did this week they blame congress to get back to the other question about is romney in lock step with congress. they blame congress and romney. again, advantage bobb obama. they still blame george bush for the economy. chris: 30 seconds left. governor, a pretty smart politician your youself. if you were advising mitt romney about his big speech thursday night. biggest moment of the campaign for him. what does he need to accomplish? be p
yes. chris: you act like i m an idiot asking that. when i was really, really sick and this is where i think people need to understand where mitt comes from. i was unable to do anything in a normal life, i wouldn t go to the grocery store or cook dinner or anything. this was during the time mitt was running the olympics and putting in long hours. he would come home on his way home he would stop at the grocery store and he was making dinner. he was doing all of those things and saying ann it s okay you are fine, don t worry about these things, that is not we i love you because you go to the store and make dinner, i love you because i love you not what you do. chris: mrs. romney i notice there is no staff here. no cooks. no mas. no. chris: why not? you mow, mitt and i are pretty independent. is that is how we like it. like to do our own things. i think mitt ironed his own shirt this morning. i notice he was doing the laundry last night. chris: i also hear from pie
i was going say seriously. and that is a special reason. there you go. chris: we ll get to the governor in it a second. seems whether it is three days or whatever that mitt romney and the romney campaign have a lot they need to do this week in tampa. they have to appeal to women. they have to reach out to hispanics, most importantly, they have got to convince the middle class voters that they understand them and care about them. can they do that in a week in tampa? yes, because i think the most important speech is actually ann romney s speech in terms of dealing with the likability issue in terms of dealing with do you care with people like me which are both areas where mitt romney is polling behind obama though he is polling ahead of obama on can you handle the i can. what theeconomy. they need to show that side of him like we just saw in an interview. but to have ann romney really be able to describe the man that she knows and kind of humanize him i think is is one of the m
sources that you have an unhealthy attraction to costco. we both love costco. i love croftco. chris: why? it s great. have you ever been to. chris: i love costco. i m in touch. you go in the door. i don t want everyone to learn this trick. goo in the door and take a sharp right and go down to the back of the store and just go just shop the outside of the aisles boom, booming boom. also got me one of these three packs of shirts from costco. he is bering them all the time now. i m like that looks good. i got it at costco. chris: what are the romney olympics? in the summer time the boys and daughters in law and i get together. a swimming component and running component and biking component. that deteriorated over time. this year we went down to. it is when mitt started