coalition together and see try on get people to go out and, you know, fall in love with a guy named mitt romney they really don t know if they even like. karen, will you slightly were you taken aback by the number of times the issue of abortion was mentioned yesterday? because that s traditionally something that republicans like to discuss in great detail. yet, there it was perhaps more times than in any time, any convention in the last 20 years where it was mentioned by democrats. you know what you know, martin, you heard me say this before. i think when republicans miss all the time is that for democrats, we understand that this issue, this is not an issue off to the side. we are talking about an issue that goes to the core of whether or not you trust that a woman can make a responsible decision about her health care, about medical procedure, and about the medicines she is going to be taking. she is going to consult with her doctor and make the best decision. for us abortio
two, basically the goal of the romney campaign has been to make mitt romney function as a generic candidate. a protest vehicle for swing voters who are fed up economically and want to take it out on the incumbent, their goal is to make mitt romney inoffensively and well rounded and no real no strong views, nothing offensive coming out of and it the result is you are going have a convention that is going to come across as a little directionless. very quickly. i would like michael s thoughts on this as well. certainly. i think the argument, though, remember republicans went into their convention divided trying to distance themselves from the akin sxoemts they are having a hard time being a sort of bigger tent party than they have ever been. part of what we have seen and what we are see thing week is the way that republicans have been attacking democrats has galvanized democrats. i m feeling that when i have been out at the events with del xwats and people are feeling increasingly e
on her daughter s insurance policy which she would have hit by the time her daughter was 5 or 6 years old because of the amount of heart surgery. that change in the louisville time making it unlimited has literally changed the possibilities for her daughter s life and her daughter s ability to get the medical care she needs. that s real. that s in-law. president obama signed that into law. that means something to that mother. what would mitt romney put in-law? what would he change in-law that would mean anything to any mother except what we no he would do, what he says he would do, repeal obama care and take that charge indeed. lawrence, you were referring then, of course, to stacy lynn who was speaking, she is from arizona about her beautiful young daughter. and, again, there were a number of speakers who got out there yesterday and defended the president s health care reform. but it is interesting because paul ryan keeps telling us that he will get rid of the
20, 2009. bill clinton, i think i haven t always been a big fan of bill clinton issues but i think he will be great tonight. he will take this issue on and he will take on the welfare issue they tried to raise in the last few weeks. the republicans and he will knock it out of the park. and i don t think you will hear mitt romney or paul ryan mick a single reference to bill clinton after tonight, up until election day. we have been watching live pictures of gabby douglas who will be giving the pledge of allegiance this evening. there is a wide shot of the stage. she was just given a walk-through. joan, if i might come to you, i want to read the last line from your most recent article. and you say this. if anyone should be nervous about clinton s unvetted speech, it is mitt romney. what do you mean, joan? well, you know, martin, at this convention, there s so little tension. there s so much excitement that i really think a lot of our
so you there s got to be some nervousness on the part of the obama team until they see the text of his speech which apparently is being written by bill clinton which usually uses speech writers. so you know, to the extent he wrote a lot of this i am hello, this could prove interesting and he doesn t like to be controlled. he doesn t like to be on anybody else s script and he s going to go his own way. it is going to be fun to see what happen. joan, correct the correction. i just remember that we p went through this in 2008. and there was all this drama. that was real drama. bill clinton was very angry. there s no doubt about that. but that was real drama about how he was going to behave and he he gave a terrific speech and has been a great surrogate and gone off the reservation a few times. it is true. with his remark about romney having a sterl career and, you know, maybe they shun go so hard on bain capital. he does do that. you know, i don t expect anything like that ton