Riding around his ranch instead of the yale educated son of a wealthy political dynasty and john kerry combatted questions of his vietnam war record with this visual, arriving by boat, accompanying by swift boat crewmates at the democratic convention in boston. we ll have to wait until thursday night to find out the story mitt romney wants to tell us about who he is. but one thing is clear, the self-portrait will be drawn in etch-a-sketch ink. this is the moment when mitt romney tries to shake off what has come before and recreate himself anew. only what s he going to tell us that we haven t already heard? after all this ain t the first time he s been at the rodeo. mitt romney has been running for president for at least the last six years. to paraphrase a line from the great herald melvin and the blue notes, if we don t know him by now, we ll never know him. thanks to todd akin s junk science claims about rape,
Religiosity. we speak it the same way we do. it s very comfortable to us. as a republican, and and respect to same-sex marriage, with faith-based religion, joe can speak to about it. the question becomes quite frankly and this is a larger philosophical conversation, can we have a conversation where we respectfully disagree and have a conversation, and quite frankly, you say tomato, i say tomato, and we see things fundamentally different. can we have a conversation and work together? that s the real challenge. our country is so divided, so fractured that people see it as you are either for me or against me, either on my side or on the other side. and my whole point, why can t we work together? part of the problem, robert, to your point, we all hear things differently and one of my biggest frustrations, and that s this dog whistle politics that is reintroduced. when mitt romney makes this joke about his birth certificate, he
Privileged kid of a wealthy, powerful family in a religion a lot of americans don t know much about and may have negative sterotypes. i went to france to help people, and then i got much wealthier. let s be clear about what the convention is for. this is a phenomenally boring event. and phenomenally dull dull candidate. come to tampa. the more people see of mitt romney, the necessary they like him. the real function of a convention may not be introducing the candidate totality public anymore. one of the real social functions of the convention is providing access for corporate and billionaire funders to congress members and candidate members. we ll stay exactly that, i m going to ask whether or not this is phenomenally boring, in part because president obama models his presidency on lincoln s team of rivals, we heard in romney s
Wars, start the small business, he has no connection, neither does obama. let me say this. the fastest growing party in america are the independents. the only party that s healthy and governor, i don t have a convention, you have no pins. mascot. you repeat again what you know true. i m not very social. but i do speak for the people who build a nation. that s small business. and neither party connects with. it s an interesting point. i guess, you know i think the difference that the if i think about the convention story that the obamas were able to tell, the pure aesthetics. they have a story from coming up from working people. the michelle robinson story, who per family was, that that convention video, i m the
i got to tell you, i actually think republicans are doing a good job in re-invigorating black democratic voters through voter suppression efforts. if you were disappointed in the performance of this president? is that fair to put that tag on mr. davis? i don t think it is. zell miller was a democratic, and then he went and spoke at the republican convention, he didn t like the approach to terrorism. nobody challenges is this authentic, sincere. zell miller is a personality. speaks for himself. davis, part of the aftermath when he ran for governor, a political narrative that raises this question far more complicated than that, and if cornell were here, he would tell you, some of the early polling showed that the more the gop