bit. you want to know what the inquisition was like a little bit, the star chamber? that. he didn t give him a chance to answer the question. it wasn t about the issueself. it was about lindsay graham grandstanding for the five minutes he gets. there s a whole another story we can talk about some of the time about congressional hearings have really gone down downhill over the last 10, 20 years. five-minute questions, you don t get to develop a train of thought. you don t take in the answer and have a real discussion. you saw yesterday, far more talk about what hagel might have said about israel a couple of years ago. than about afghanistan. he wanted recantation. they wanted him to recant like, excuse me that s not for you, joy. the eclees yasticcal proceeding. they feel like he turned on them, he turned on their war, he turned on the neocons and they want him to cry uncle. i think the neoconserves, who are led in the senate by john mccain and lindsay graham, they see chuck hag
it? when harry reid doubled down on the accusation it sent a message that he must be listening to a focus group and the class warfare issue is resonating with the american population. do you concur with that? the president s surrogates will do anything they can to divide americans and pit people against each other. what we need now is people to come together and create jobs again. get this country moving again president obama just want to double down on the failed policies that hasn t worked. you saw yesterday. 8.3 percent unemployment. that is an uptake. we are head nothing a wrong direction under the president and his policies will not right the ship. you know that this accusation from reid is going to resonate with a state your name population and the american public that watch certain media and don t bother to listen to what is said on the other side.
huntsman campaign is praying to get a podium spot next to romney so huntsman can go after romney. i think for all of these reasons, mitt romney s going to have a difficult time at these debates. and the question is, will he get testy as he s known to do. mark haleprin, in the end, it all comes down to math and these moderates are going to vote for mitt romney. and if you want to get from 8% to 11% or 11% to 15%, you are fighting for the same conservative votes in the same pot. that s people haven t been avoiding mitt romney because they re scared of him or because they like him, they ve been avoiding him because they know they re not going to get his votes. how is that going to change this weekend? sets up very well for mitt romney. as you say they all want in theory, they recognize they must go after mitt romney. now or never. but they re still competing with each other to be the romney alternative. you saw yesterday, newt gingrich was asked by a voter, how do you
so huntsman can go after romney. i think for all of these reasons, mitt romney s going to have a difficult time at these debates. and the question is, will he get testy as he s known to do. mark haleprin, in the end, it all comes down to math and these moderates are going to vote for mitt romney. and if you want to get from 8% to 11% or 11% to 15%, you are fighting for the same conservative votes in the same pot. that s people haven t been avoiding mitt romney because they re scared of him or because they like him, they ve been avoiding him because they know they re not going to get his votes. how is that going to change this weekend? sets up very well for mitt romney. as you say they all want in theory, they recognize they must go after mitt romney. now or never. but they re still competing with each other to be the romney alternative. you saw yesterday, newt gingrich was asked by a voter, how do you compare yourself to rick
ashley, and i don t see this flippingly is people don t shut up. and, you know, if you saw yesterday, part of what fueled this selling were the people like the guard and folks like that, really just saying the obvious again, oh, the world is in danger of falling into another recession, we re almost in a recession. this is going to be bad. this is going to be bad if it hurts the developing world and it s going to hurt the developed world as well and what you saw with a lot of headlines and this is a very, very sensitive marketplace right now. i mean, this is a market that is very sensitive to every headline that crosses the tape, they re sensitive to everything that s coming out of a lot of these leaders. and what you don t see is you don t see sort of measured words coming out of people. you see a lot of people speaking almost in panicky terms so, you know, what you need is sort of political discipline on two levels. one, to kind of fix the fiscal problems in these countries. but also,