but knowing that it made a bigger impact of that op-ed in context. he is somebody who while he noted in the op-ed, policy agreements of where he signs and where mitt romney stands, and these two men could not be more different as human beings that is an understatement. mitt romney is coming from a secure place, and he says that he does not have presidential ambiti ambition, and nominee already and heading to the place where he can end his political career as a senator of utah. or not. but he could. but he is wildly popular in his home state, and my point being that he can afford unlike many of the other republicans who are terrified for their own hides, that he can afford the do this for his political context. well, six years and he is not going to be primaried at home not the way he is sitting right
the single biggest spender, dishing out $16 million. although romney s campaign and his backers in total outspent by $8 million. i m joined now by jonathan, director of communications for american crossroads. good to see you, jonathan. good morning. good morning. that is a lot of money by any standards. but the wall street journal kind of dissed groups like yours this morning, and i m quoting here, super pacs are looking less super. signs are few that super pacs have had the major impact that both supporters and critics predicted. the flood of spending doesn t appear to have significantly influenced voter opinion in key states in the presidential contest or in top congressional races. so for all your hard work, all your fund-raising, the wall street journal is suggesting you might be irrelevant. is that fair? well, what it did is unfortunately the journal piece took what we did in isolation and didn t compare it against what obama was doing at the same time. so go back to
fatah. that we d go after bin laden. he s gone. so i ve executed on my foreign policy, and it s one that the american people largely agree with. so, you know, if governor romney is suggesting that we should start another war, he should say so. alex, what s he trying to do there? well, first i think what the president is trying to do is, you know, there s been a very consistent critique of his performance on foreign policy from the right, that the obama administration has not been supportive enough of allies like israel, has not been assertive enough with iran. what obama s trying to do is claim a sort of aggressive middle ground that would force romney in order to make that criticism of the white house, would force romney to take some positions that are just a little bit out of step with where americans are. americans, after iraq and afghanistan, there is a sense, i think, there s not a huge appetite for more military action overseas. it is fascinating that we re talking so much
at fastreliefchallenge.com. mitt romney is now blaming president obama for the extraordinary amount of fund-raising in his presidential campaign. this is a bit of an unusual thing in that we ve got the first candidate, presidential candidate, in history excuse me, since watergate to say he was not going to follow the federal spending limits was president obama. in his last campaign. he s doing it again this time. so to be competitive, it means a lot more fund-raising than i think i would like. both campaigns and their supporters have ramped up their spending on tv ads. spending $47 million just last week. president obama s campaign was