somebody that went further left than they thought. i think they re entitled to find out why has this guy driven the country so far left. steve, you re also saying what motivates him. steve, you ve also said you wie worried that governor romney be further left than you would like here and other conservatives. i don t know what bowl you re drinking from to be quite honest here because you are also threateninged in many ways by governor romney and the presidency that he would provide to conservatives. you don t like either here. no, i don t. you re asking me two different questions. one is my personal opinion and the other is, what would i do if i were running the romney campaign. those are two totally different things. that s why we have you on. part of you is your personal opinion which you love to give. i appreciate it. abby, thank you, as well. coming up on news nation, new developments out of syria following the early morning assassination of a military leader.
lose. do you agree with that? absolutely. yes. he s got to in the end, everything he s saying about obama i agree with, but he still needs to give the country what will do instead. i think people get suspicious when he doesn t offer specifics because you re talking about a guy that was a global billionaire fans ear. the idea that he was able to raise capital and make so much money and be so successful in business without offering people specifics, people realize that s not the case. he still needs to provide the country with what is his actual vision beyond isn t obama very bad. margie, i think some people will find this perplexing, the argument that steve is presenting. we know that president obama as well as governor romney will need independent voters to come to their side. when you have rush limbaugh on his program basically bragging that john sununu and governor romney are taking a page from his playbook of bringing up drug use and all of these other things that have nothing
he s got to address that. the only way to address that really is to do something about the inquiries, release something. maybe one year additional year, maybe another additional year. that will satisfy conservatives even if it never satisfies democrats. steve, the obama team tweeted out a pretty funny tweet here if it wasn t such a serious issue, i guess it would be funny. they show president obama has released 12 years of his tax returns. governor romney one and they call it the transparent tweet. you see all the checks going across for how many years the president has released his returns and what governor romney has provided. what i find perplexing, steve, is that you re saying you re excited to see governor romney give the fight to president obama that he s given to conservatives. but you don t think he can win here. the national review says in all likelihood, romney won t be able to maintain a position that looks secretive and they say he feeds to release these returns.
strategist margie amero, politics reporter abby philip and tv show host steve daste. what do you take out of this rush limbaugh claiming that the romney campaign is following the path he s laid ahead, steve? well, i think i m going to be alongside a lot of the conservatives around the country. i m tickled pink, literally, to see the romney campaign finally go after obama as hard as it s gone after conservatives in primaries in the last two presidential cycles. if nothing else, at least we got him to fight back against the obama campaign. for our audience not aware, you re a conservative, no fan of mitt romney. you ve taken great pride you believe that somehow this fight that the conservatives like yourself have been wanting has been brought to the table in a way that can win the white house? i do. i think in fact, it s probably
romney surrogates they say we don t want to talk about the tax issue because it has nothing to do with jobs. what does this strategy do in bringing over independents here? it s the last thing that mitt romney needs right now. and steve s comments really show one of the underlying liabilities of the romney campaign is they can t get enthusiasm with the far right without some of these incendiarc and can t win over independents with it. that puts the romney campaign in a bind. on top of that, you have the main argument they have as part of this tax release the tax returns discussion about what he s hiding and coming clean about his time the an bain is stop talking about me. don t pick on me. don t be negative by bringing up what i like to bring up about my own record. that s romney s response to this, but when they when you have john sununu using this incredible heated rhetoric that independent voters i talk to really hate, that takes away