he can t completely divorce himself from that. in response to some of the countercriticism, you had put out a statement, a campaign statement accusing the romney campaign, governor romney in particular, of being unhinged. you said, governor romney s comments tonight seemed unhinged and particularly strange coming at a time when he s pouring tens of millions of dollars into negative ads that are demonstrably false. you mean the welfare ad, which critics, politifact, others, we have questioned as well. what did you mean by unhinged? well, i think it was important to point out the hypocrisy there. over the course of the past year, governor romney has run almost an entirely negative campaign, tearing down his opponents and after tearing them down, telling them to stop whining. over the past weekend, when he announced his vice presidential selection, he said that he wanted to focus on the economic choice in this election, which the president has been focused on all along. but the other
look, this is ridiculous. when i saw andrea saul s statement about vice president biden s comments, i rolled my eyes. we re looking we ve been looking at a campaign and in some instances the candidate himself engaging in some sort of somewhat racially insensitive or downright racially insensitive things. newt gingrich, doing newt university at the convention in tampa, who consistently calls the president a food stamp president. you have mitt romney say to donors in montana after speaking to the naacp talking about how he would repeal obama care and telling them that, you know, if you want more free stuff, vote for the other guy. you have the welfare ad, the first one, that came out that is completely false. you have mitt romney is that but wait is mitt romney being insensitive? come on. because we re welfare racially incensensit. food stamps racially insensitive. mitt romney still endorsed by donald trump who is still
views on-line despite widespread claims that it is inaccurate. which, of course, mike, here s great example, there are actually bill burton, who, you know, is as close to the white house as can be, they re running an ad that everybody has told them to lie, factually inaccurate, buy graphically inaccurate, and they are running it now in cleveland. a swing state. what, mika? no. that s terrible. it is i agree. it is a lie and they know it is a lie. and they are now running it in ohio. and the most important swing state. that ad is a disgrace. the welfare ad of the romney campaign ran is a disgrace. this entire campaign is thoroughly depressing. if they would walk around and meet a few ordinary people, who are beset by problems in this country given the economy, unemployment and everything like that and then the rhetoric of the campaign, the way the
having the small reform conversation, which is means testing and raise the age, right. that s like to me sort of nobody wants to talk about that. and yet that s that is sort of only step one and that could be the simplest step. that s step one. i just think you have to say, if you re 50 you re 50 or older, 52, 53 you re going to get your medicare. just the way that it the way that the system is right now, you re going to get it. if you re younger than that, we re going to have to reform it in a way that saves it for future generations and saves our budget. but it s just not as but chuck, you are right. i mean when we go out and talk, you know, somebody will stand up and say, oh medicare s not that bad. if we just cut foreign if they like it if we just cut foreign aid or just cut pbs or we would be out of we would be out of the hole. one of the things that s so crazy about the welfare ad that
8% of registered voter who is haven t decided who they are going to vote for. we didn t get to that lower percentage of voters in the presidential race the last time around until october. it s only early august and we are at the point in the campaign which is usually a late point in the campaign where each candidate stops trying to persuade anybody who is undecided and in the middle and recognize there no people left to persuade and turn to try to turn out their bases of support. campaigns usually do not make that turn until october because the number of undecided people is not low enough to justify until october. right now the number is so low, apparently it s justified. at least the mitt romney campaign feels that way. that turn is happening now. apparently for them, the economy is over. now it s time to rile the base. you get what i believe is the obviously and purposefully obviously racist welfare ad. you get the obama didn t visit