republican field capitol hill, no leadership, you are not leading. you should stay in town. really on the offensive. so, romney is kind of smart, right? because he brings it back to what most people care about, jobs. stealing that old margaret thatcher ad from the 1980s, labor isn t working, obama isn t working. goes right back to the core issue that s really got our economy. i think the only way to describe yesterday s press conference is odd. odd in its timing it s tone. laura: look at people and tell them they are not leaders how do you work. how dare you take vacation when he announces he is going to martha s vineyards for two weeks people that don t own corporate jets. these are not people pitching a tent in backyard. laura: have you ever seen the martha s vineyard airport for the summer? it s jet gridlock likes a pen in the vineyard. strange thing because it was such small ball and then what you see romney doing. i actually think, joe, be interested to get your take o
republican field capitol hill, no leadership, you are not leading. you should stay in town. really on the offensive. so, romney is kind of smart, right? because he brings it back to what most people care about, jobs. stealing that old margaret thatcher ad from the 1980s, labor isn t working, obama isn t working. goes right back to the core issue that s really got our economy. i think the only way to describe yesterday s press conference is odd. odd in its timing it s tone. laura: look at people and tell them they are not leaders how do you work. how dare you take vacation when he announces he is going to martha s vineyards for two weeks people that don t own corporate jets. these are not people pitching a tent in backyard. laura: have you ever seen the martha s vineyard airport for the summer? it s jet gridlock likes a pen in the vineyard. strange thing because it was such small ball and then what you see romney doing. i actually think, joe, be interested to get your take o
no leadership, you are not leading. you should stay in town. really on the offensive. so, romney is kind of smart, right? because he brings it back to what most people care about, jobs. stealing that old margaret thatcher ad from the 1980s, labor isn t working, obama isn t working. goes right back to the core issue that s really got our economy. i think the only way to describe yesterday s press conference is odd. odd in its timing it s tone. laura: look at people and tell them they are not leaders how do you work. how dare you take vacation when he announces he is going to martha s vineyards for two weeks people that don t own corporate jets. these are not people pitching a tent in backyard. laura: have you ever seen the martha s vineyard airport for the summer? it s jet gridlock likes a pen in the vineyard. strange thing because it was such small ball and then what you see romney doing. i actually think, joe, be interested to get your take on, this too. by not putting rom
goes down the tubes. there were two strong attacks on mitt romney today from conservative intellectual heavy weights. take a look at what the wall street journal wrote quote the romney campaign thinks it can play it safe and coast to the white house by saying the economy stinks and it s mr. obama s fault. the main daily message if the campaign is that obama isn t working. thanks, guy, but americans already know that. what people want the hear is why the president s policies aren t working. also this morning, so it too much to ask mitt romney to get off autopilot and actually think about the race he s running. it s only the second quarter and you re not even ahead is dubious enough as a strategy, but his campaign s belief that it s only about the economy and they need to keep telling us stupid voters it s only l about the economy
recovered since then. he hasn t done that much. he s been very good ostensibly saying what the president hasn t done right, but he hasn t talked a lot about the bigger ideas and gone back to try to correct that history. that s what he s going to have to do. otherwise there s a choice that people made, dan, what seems safer if they think that the alternative is worse. romney speaks in probabling cal terms, obama isn t working, obama speaks in moral terms, this is right, this is wrong. that s a more powerful argument? i would say, play devil s advocate a little bit. i m not sure that romney has to get into details. president obama came in on hope and change, almost no details. people were tired of bush, tired of war, tired of financial crisis. a lot of people might be tired of barack obama. what romney has to do, i think, is talk to aspirations. people are struggling and a lot of people out of work, a