counterintuitive tonight, pointing out what governors like yourself and governor kasich, what he did in new jersey, and nikki haley, bob mcdonnell who also spoke tonight, that what you ve been able to do on the state level we can do on a national level. seems like it s more about ideas than going after the president as some might expect. is that the right tone to set in the keynote? well, i do, because i think the indictment is pretty clear. i mean, 42 consecutive months of unemployment above 8%. last month 44 of the 50 states saw an uptick in unemployment. 12 million americans are unemployed today. people understand that things aren t working. for anybody thought they were electing bill clinton four years ago, the economy is not better, the budget is not balanced. people understand they made a mistake. it s up to show we ve got a better option, and we do with mitt romney and paul ryan. sean: seems that one of the main themes that governor
facebook or twitter or youtube, e-mail, we somehow have to learn from people when things aren t working. we have to learn when there are new and better ideas. we have to learn when reality is changing. 536 elected officials cannot change this country. they re not that smart and their staffs aren t that smart, but millions of citizens working together can in fact create an enormous difference. if we succeed in getting the congress to truly transfer back home, as we shrink washington, we have to grow citizenship, so i m asking you to be with me as a citizen taking on new and important responsibility. in that tradition, i want to compliment captain howard, who is here today. in buford, south carolina,
things aren t working. last question here quickly, you said something that piqued my interest, you talked about manufacturing in this country. there are those who are saying over the next five years, we are really going to start to see a boom in manufacturing, because of what s happening in china, because of wages there that are going to have to go up. what do you think is going to happen to manufacturing in america? it s going to be better. in other words, we re in a better position than we have been in recent years to pick up some manufacturing business. but it s going to be in the higher value added stuff. we re not going to start making textiles again the way we did ten years ago, or 15 years ago. we do have a tail wind there. thank you so much. always appreciate you. associate editor. tens of thousands of mourners lining the streets of north korea s capital to pay final respects to the manรง the called dear leader. we ll get details on kim
forward. that smacks of somebody encouraging them to do it after all these years. it is having run a presidential campaign and been the recipient of all kind of nasty stuff on my opponents i can tell you that it very rarely bears itself out. in this case, just so i can clarify this one more time there is no doubt in my mind that politico and others got this from other republicans. not from democrats. eric: you said the exact same thing i said on the other side. greg: here we go again. eric: how about this. how about this. let me be conspiratorial now. greg: for a change. eric: politico gets it from the democratic party or someone on the left. and they say don t name your source. make it look like it came from a campaign. and all of a sudden we get dig down to the minutia of this instead of concentrating on what really matters, jobs, economy, unemployment, people aren t working. things aren t working. we waste all of this time worrying whether herman cain went like this to a
americans. there s an understanding now that the situation is broken, and things aren t working for them. and can as you pointed out, that adds a very somber and serious note to what we re going to be undertaking here tomorrow night in the debate. megyn: is it a somber note or a note of excitement and promise for the republicans? because the washington post has a piece today entitled republicans smell blood in the presidential race, and it talks about how in the downgrading of the american credit standard, the number of difficult economic blows the president has suffered and so on the republicans who just a month or so ago were said to be feeling dejected about the chances of unseating this president are now thinking that they actually have a really good chance. reporter: well, if you remember, the last time we had a debate it was in south carolina. it was right after the killing of usama bin laden. the conventional political wisdom was that barack obama was unbeatable, the guy w