welcome back to hardball. mitt romney has been running for president now for years, but with the resistance to get into his financial success, he s unknowable. who is this man? why is he running for president? that s a darn good question. scott hellman has coauthored the book the real romney. i want to read something from the book. it s something that was said following his defeat to ted kennedy back in 1994. there was a looming question over dinner one night after that race. one couldn t sum up in a
make gingrich unsubpoenaable. whatever it takes to make him completely unacceptable. but they are not showing anything yet. maybe this is coming. maybe this is coming in a couple days. how to fix the mitt problem. there is a mitt problem there, or he wouldn t be losing to conservatives by a two to one margin. he wouldn t be seeing his leads collapse at a moment s notice. his leads have collapsed. the polls are over inflating the newt surge, but the campaign pollsters say this race is neck and neck. why don t the republican smart guys around mitt romney remember what jimmy carter tried to do to ronald reagan? they said you can t vote for ronald reagan. the public said, oh yeah? we re going to vote for him because we don t like you. there are a couple problems for mitt romney. one of them is he can t credibly attack newt gingrich from the right. now, joe scarborough can say newt gingrich isn t a real conservative.
this is where i find true freedom. which is why it was particularly gratifying for dan when in the 1990s a funny thing started to happen. i had to scratch my head quite a bit when it started to happen. suddenly the dogs started to support the restaurant. after many years of the restaurant providing cash for the sledding, things turned the other way. but dan said though he loves the dogs best, he would never close the restaurant. to separate that, it either separates two businesses out or get rid of one it will hurt the other one, so that s why we re keeping them. one couldn t exist without the other. taking the long view of the business, dan says he knows there s a cycle, and at one point the restaurant megan support the dogs, and that s okay with him as long as he gets to keep doing what he loves best. come on, jack, and brody. good dog. good dog.
freedom. which is why it was particularly gratifying for dan when in the 1990s a funny thing started to happen. i had to scratch my head quite a bit when it started to happen. suddenly the dogs started to support the restaurant. after many years of the restaurant providing cash for the sledding, things turned the other way. but dan said though he loves the dogs best, he would never close the restaurant. to separate that, it either separates two businesses out or get rid of one it will hurt the other one, so that s why we re keeping them. one couldn t exist without the other. taking the long view of the business, dan says he knows there s a cycle, and at one point the restaurant megan support the dogs, and that s okay with him as long as he gets to keep doing what he loves best. come on, jack, and brody. good dog. good dog.
out on the sled, and everything he says clearly comes from the heart. this is true freedom. which is why it was particularly gratifying for dan when in the 1990s a funny thing started to happen. i had to scratch my head quite a bit about it when it started to happen. suddenly the dogs started supporting the restaurant. after many years of the restaurant providing cash for the sledding, things turned the other way. but dan said, though he loves the dogs best, he d never close the restaurant. to separate that, either separate the two businesses out or get rid of one is going to hurt the other. so that s why we re keeping them. it s that one couldn t exist without the other at this point or on a much different scale and a scale i don t care to know about. taking the long view of the business, dan says he knows there s a cycle and at one point the restaurant may again support the dogs, and that s okay with him, as long as he gets to keep doing what he loves best.