about waves. you find yourself trying to shore up your base. this president has to shore up excitement and flame excitement in those various groups, hispanics, the gay community and other communities that were revved up for him. i think the president as he talks about romney, remember, campaigns that have been successful, presidential ones in the past, have taken the opponent on his with strength. romney s strength he says is the economy. he tried to talk about private equity. i don t think that was the right thing to do. i think you go after him and show where he wants to take the country. if indeed, if the paul ryan plan is the blueprint for the budget for mitt romney the president s got to explain what the paul ryan plan means for michigan, ohio, pennsylvania, double down that way. i think if you double down with some of the regulations people may romney will point out the health care stuff didn t work for you. if you re in the telecom industry, didn t work for you because since t
past, they ll fail now, they re going to put us further in dead. moody s economist this week just said the romney economics plan would cause more harm in the short-term and slow down the recovery. so his recipe is not going to work. so this president is committed to making sure we continue to recover from the recession. to rebuild more security for the middle class. which is the defining challenge of our time. you talk about democrats right now, a tough couple of weeks for the campaign, including a mistab the president made talking about the private sector doing fine. here are some of the headlines that no doubt you see some across your desk, concerns among democrats, a feeling that major donors feel that he could actually lose, jim carville worried about obama s message on the economy. are you dealing with a sense of panic among democrats? no. listen, i think what we need to do is embrace the fact that this is going to be a close election. it s going to come down to a few votes pe
and appreciation for the fact that he was a successful republican governor, working with democrat legislature. the fact is that bain, yes, thousands were laid off, but also many more thousands were fired. it was a tough campaign and you say things in campaigns that obviously are to help you. but i can tell you this, that mitt romney s view of what this economy needs to be done, and what needs to be done to secure this economy and the record of what president obama has tried to do is vastly different. but you when you look at the stimulus, when you look at dodd-frank. do you believe that any that any organization, banking financial institution isn t too big to fail today? do you believe that obama care isn t opposed by some 60-some percent senator you don t disavow your critiques of the business credentials of mitt romney? my critique of the business credentials of mitt romney are
toics and the bureaucracies of government. that s a fundamental difference between him and mitt romney and the reason why mitt romney s going to be elected. because mitt romney believes that businesses create johns. let me give you a small example. we ve got a tral and a half dollars sitting overseas. double the stimulus package. all we have to do is bring that money home, these companies that are hodding that money promise to invest and hire, and we could have a stimulus to our economy. why is it that the obama administration won t bring that money home? it s because they want to tax them. the highest corporate tax rate in the world is in the united states of america. this is a kind of no-brainer stuff that because of his view of government, that it keeps us from doing these things. but there is another similarity when it comes to how to deal with, and how to evaluate mitt romney s business record at bain but also his experience of being governor of massachusetts. this has been the
unfortunately, the downside of the free enterprise capital system. but overall his record, i think, will stand and speak for itself. i want to ask you a couple of matters about foreign affairs, including something that s political as well. a casino owner is pledging vast sums to the super pac supporting mitt romney. new report this morning saying he may contribute as much as $100 million. are you concerned he will have undue influence on this election, and undue influence on mitt romney? well, i m not only worried about him, i m worried about many others. and i ve always been concerned about the labor unions who take money from their union members, and without their permission, contribute to causes that they may not support. so, am i concerned about the incredible amount of money that s washing around? yeah. i was concerned also when president obama, when he was a candidate, said he would take matching funds, and then didn t. and then outraised me, obviously, by a great deal. i m c