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this wasn t the best thing, but josh said as a country, we think it s the right thing. so dad didn t want to run for president but the kids couldn t convince him to not run for president. i guess, you know, they just didn t think anyone would roll that videotape with this latest new spin. i want to get more into this boston globe article because it s kind of a fascinating look back at what the romney campaign didn t understand. there is this from the globe. in florida, for example, the romney campaign said it had fewer than 200 staff members on the ground, a huge commitment of its total of 500 nationwide, but the obama campaign had 770 staff in florida out of 3,000 or so nationwide. they had more staff in florida than we had in the country and for longer, said romney adviser
that this guy who lived his whole life in order to run for president didn t really want to run for president. yeah, i know, lawrence. there is nothing more failing than failing to win something and say, i didn t want to win, anyway. who wants that. the problem with that, of course, is the history. we know that mitt romney didn t want to be president so badly he tried to do it twice. we know that no one that lived in massachusetts in 1994 believes that had he beaten ted kennedy that mitt romney wouldn t have been a candidate for president in the year 2000. he then ran for president two times and ran scorched earth campaigns against not the general election, his primary opponent. as you said, ask newt gingrich. ask the guys who ran against him
sorry for them, trying to come up with these crazy reasons about why he lost. and now they want to pretend that this guy who lived his whole life in order to run for president didn t really want to run for president. yeah, i know, lawrence. there is nothing more failing than failing to win something and say, i didn t want to win, anyway. who wants that. the problem with that, of course, is the history. we know that mitt romney didn t want to be president so badly he tried to do it twice. we know that no one that lived in massachusetts in 1994 believes that had he beaten ted kennedy that mitt romney wouldn t have been a candidate for president in the year 2000. he then ran for president two times and ran scorched earth campaigns against not the general election, his primary opponent. as you said, ask newt gingrich. ask the guys who ran against him in the 08 primary, giuliani, ron paul and the others, if this guy didn t want to be president.