aren t working and how mr. romney s policies will do it better. governor, is there a candidate problem? is there a staff problem? is there neither? how do you assess that? you know, there s now a call for some shake-up in the ranks of the romney campaign. well, i can t ever remember being associated with a campaign where there wasn t a call for a shake-up at some time during the campaign. that s the nature of the beast and stephen, no offense, i read the wall street journal editorials. but i think the average voter that s music to my ear. you probably goes over their heads, the average voter. yeah, but you know what, governor, you read it. you know who else reads it. i think the mitt romney people do. i think we got our message across to them. i agree. but guys, remember, you want to save your best bullets for when the nation is focused. and i agree you can t let the summer go by and he certainly can t coast in saying obama has
already know that. what they want to hear from the challenger is some understanding of why the president s policies aren t working and how mr. romney s policies will do it better. governor, is there a candidate problem? is there a staff problem? is there neither? how do you assess that? there s now a call for some shake up in the ranks of the romney campaign. well, i can t ever remember being associated with a campaign where there wasn t a call for a shake-up at some time during the campaign. that s the nature of the beast and stephen, no offense, i read the wall street editorials. that s music to my ear. that probably goes over the head of the average voters. you read it and i think the mitt romney people do. i think we got our message across to them. i agree. but guys, remember, you want to save your best bullets for when the nation is focused. and i agree you can t let the summer go by and he certainly
challenger is some understanding of why the president s policies aren t working and how mr. romney s policies will do it better. governor, is there a candidate problem? a staff problem? is there neither? there s now a call for some shake up in the ranks of the romney campaign. well, i can t ever remember being associated with a campaign where there wasn t a shake up during the campaign. that s the nature of the beast and stephen, no offense, i read the editorials. music to my hear. probably goes over the head of the average voter. you read it and i think the mitt romney people do. i think we got our message across to them. i agree. but guys, remember, you want to save your best bullets for when the nation is focused. and i agree you can t let the summer go by and he certainly
obama s running ads against him and there s been little positive response on that. you know, governor, i agree with you that this is kind of a slow season for politics. a lot of people aren t paying attention to this kind of day-to-day combat, but i do think the major issue as you know is going to be jobs. we had a lousy jobs report today. and what mitt romney has to do in my opinion is really go after obama much more aggressively on his miserable jobs record. for those who missed the editorial, this is just part of it. this is criticism from the wall street journal yesterday. the the romney campaign thinks it can play it safe and coast to the white house and say it s mr. obama s fault. the message is obama isn t working. thanks, guys, but americans already know that. what they want to hear from the challenger is some understanding of why the president s policies aren t working and how mr. romney s policies will do it better. governor, is there a candidate problem? a staff problem?
and bill chrissal if they are quote, dopes. joining me now bob franken. thank you both for joining me. erin, let s start with romney s flip-flop on the tax issue. will this hurt him? oh, of course. it already has started to hurt him. there s no question. and with all of these republicans saying this was an unforced error, they need to figure out what to do. that s true. and the one thing i would take issue with is this is not necessarily a staff problem. this is a candidate problem. because the staff is always ayp% reflection of the candidate himself. now, you spend a lot of time covering romney, a lot of time on the road with the campaign. when you have his spokesman on the air monday not just saying the campaign feels it s a penalty, not a tax. but he says governor romney feels and he said several times