president obama thinks that that s his best possible attack right now on mitt romney. it s really interesting. the idea of having someone who is pretty urban talking about cow pies, i am trying to figure out who gave him that phrase. david, obama earlier in the week, with corey booker and comments about prime equity, obama said this is not a distraction. this is what the campaign is about. is it? without a doubt. what surprised me about this conversation about bain is the surprise. we knew that this was going to be what this campaign was about. it was the newt gingrich playbook against mitt romney. this won. the romney campaign knew this was coming their way. electric at what he said anticipating the attacks. what you see is the disconnect
in a dinner date. get ready to brick bread with the donald. go park the car in harvard yard. working on that for hours. the president and romney both spent time at one of the most vend rabl campuses and they have different runs on the same crimson track. good morning from washington and happy memorial day weekend. it s friday, may 25th, 2012 and this is the daily rundown. i m in for chuck todd. let s get to the first reads. we are heading to memorial day weekend and it feels like labor day and politics. president obama is hammering mitt romney more than five months before the election, trying to define him as a wealthy and out of touch corporate raider. last night at the fairgrounds, where romney famously sparred with hecklers, the president jabbed romney again and again. the gain from his experience as a financial ceo, it explains
ran for president. this is what he had to say last night about mitt romney, his candidate, mitt romney and china. this is a typical trajectory where during a campaign season you ll talk about china in way you re hearing today. we have seen that in elections gone by. you get in the office, mitt romney has the ability to do what is most important. he is saying he s saying one thing now and will do something different and better when elected president. this is not the first time jon huntsman has gone off the reservation. i posed the question to the daily rundown team, is jon huntsman the worst surrogate of 2012. he s at least interested in jon huntsman as mitt romney. that is always the case. jon huntsman made the point during the nomination season when china would come up, this was actually at the crux of some of his debates on the stage with
how does the obama white house think they can effectively win the question that jim and many republicans pose? they can win that argument. by shifting and i think they think by shifting that question to a different question, if you are asking if that s the question this is about, i don t think they win on that. they have to change the question and make it more about mitt romney and do you believe this guy can actually do for you what you need? can he spur the economy with his background looking at his ears of bain capital and vulture capitalism and can he do this? if the question is on if it s just a referendum on the economy, i don t think they do that well and they have to shift it. you have already seen them do a lot about taking us back to the policies that got us here to begin with. that argument. you will see a lot more of that.
this idea of vulture capitalism. what mitt romney is doing and spent his years doing it. was this free enterprise? they were shouted down in the republican primary and said it s ridiculous. does it work? so far it has not worked. i think the problem for mitt romney is it said worry about obama doesn t have this strong of a case. the inverse of that is this is as good as it gets. i don t think you look at 8.1% unemployment. i don t think they want to believe this is as good as it gets. this is the very best policies. i will ask a hard question quickly.