romney believes the president was born in the united states and he was campaigning and it was a joke. end of issue. yeah. i m not surprised that steve is not outrageded. it found it more tasteless than that. unforced error. not catastrophic unforced error but as you said, this is the time you want to build up to a crescendo. he has done clutchs like that in the past. he is reintroducing himself to voters and authentication of the michigan roots. op-ned the journal talking about the time at bain, trying to cast that in a favorable light. i think he did step on the message today. but he is still at it.
2009 to june of this year. in addition, the median length of unemployment 8-1/2 weeks in recession is up to 20 weeks now. the vice president says things are getting better. folks, we have a long way to go. the middle class is on its way back. on its way back. for the romney-ryan ticket, the numbers are a perfect fit. biden said the other day that the middle vas in the midst of a recovery. president obama said that the private sector is doing just fine. this is the obama imaginary recovery. some experts say the recovery is real but not as streak as the recession was deep. this is a battle to come back. we re not making enough ground to get the economy on all cylinders. new fox news poll says more people feel finances will improve if romney wins than if the president is re-elected. romney spent most of his time on that issue. this president s policies haven t worked.
assert the inherent dignity and sanctity of all human life, and confirm all t unborn child has fundamental right to life which cannot be infringed. that offers no reaction. former clinton advisor says platform rarely help but can hurt. extreme positions from either party can cause problems during the fall campaign. i can t think back to a platform that helped elect a presidential candidate. republicans are on solid political ground on abortion. polls show 50% of americans consider themselves pro-life. 41% pro-choice. bret? bret: jim, thank you. republican presidential candidate mitt romney and his wife app will talk to chris wallace on fox news sunday. one topic, the governor s late father. have you been thinking about your dad recently? what would he say? i always think about my dad
we ll soon be having a convention in tampa, florida. i m told the weather may be a little iffy there. but we re going to be there. and we re not just going to talk about platitudes, not going to talk about small things. we re going to talk about these big challenges. and how we re going to overcome them. bret: romney making his way to tampa to accept the party nomination. also had a bit zinger today for president obama. i love being home in this place where app and i were raised ann and i were raised, both of us were born. ann was born at henry ford hospital, i was born at harper hospital. no one has ever asked to see my birth certificate. they know this is the place that we were born and raised. bret: that prompted a quick response from the obama campaign. sending out, throughout the campaign, governor romney embraced the most strident voices in his party instead of standing up to them, romney s
hasn t gone far enough. romney s plan would immediately cut nondefense discretionary spending by 5%. then with his own version of the ryan budget keep it below 20% of gdp. in the long term, romney is banging on new tax cuts and less regulation to grow the economy. president obama would preserve tax cuts for middle and lower income americans. but increase taxes on the wealthy to raise revenues. he also wants to cut entitlement spending by $600 billion over ten years. but the plan would still add more than $6 trillion to the debt. spending, taxing and the regulation that we have seen in the last few years have not served to spur the economy as the president told us it would. a much more balanced approach than the romney budget. romney budget doubles down on tax break for wealthy people. that will grow the deficit. whose plan is better to address ballooning debt that will soon double the size of the u.s. economy? according to budget expert, at