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bill: he has to rise above. absolutely. he he needs to be presidential. he needs to be nor o reilly or rove on this issue because both of us are too spun up about it. bill: okay. two minutes left in this segment. what is the most important thing that mitt romney has to do tonight? if you make me pick one, it is to give the american people a sense of what it is that he is going to do so they walk away saying he has got a practical common sense set of answers to the problems we fay faces a a country. in a debate you never get to do one thing. let me suggest three. that s one of them. second, he he needs to strike a presidential tone. he needs to look more like the guy in the oval office than the guy who was there. third, he he needs to in the right way call out president obama on both his record and on his misstatements. he needs to not every misstatement. not every part of his record. he needs to pick his targets carefully. he needs to look like is he strong and convincing and ....
Care about the 47%. he should say let s put it this way, mr. president, when i m alone in a room, i speak to 53% of the country. when you are alone in a room it would appear that you speak to 14% of the country if you want to play games like that. bill: would you play that game though? would you play that game? you didn t ask me that you asked me if he brought that up first. yeah. bill: that s what i m talking about. is he going to bring it up. you know the 47% is coming. would you go back with the 14%? would you go back with it? no. because i think mitt romney is winning, bill. i don t believe the polls. i don t believe the hacks. i think he is in great shape. i think this president is so bad at this job guy goes out there and looks comfortable for god s sake. huckster guy like is. ....
bill: back of the book segment tonight. big presidential debate in denver just minutes away. let s go out to colorado where carl cammeron and ed henry are standing by. ed, you cover the president every day what s the word on his demeanor tonight? bill, i spoke a short time ago. two different people have been with the president today in denver over the past few hours. they insist he is the calmest, coolest guy in the room. is he not showing any apprehension about getting on the stage tonight for the first time with mitt romney. i spoke to a third person who is with the president in nevada in do that debate prep three days of intensive john kerry playing mitt romney. other staffers in the room firing questions saying you failed at this. you failed at that this person told me the president was answering every question. wasn t getting angry, wasn t losing his temper or his cool. look, it s one thing to have people around you in your orbit throwing quote, unquote fast balls at you, a wh ....
Too busy trying to save this country. if he does want to show emotion save it for the closing argument and look straight into the camera at the end and say listen, it is broken and i can fix it, damn it. bill: now we are getting some place. if he says it damn it, it s like rhett butler saying damn it. it s a clean move and it resonates at the end. bill: a lot of evangelicals don t want to hear that word you know that so maybe he says i was gonna say it but i won t out of respect for everyone. now, if he gets attacked, which i think he will on the 47% comment, all right? then i say the tapes on barack obama shield. you put that up as a shield. wait a minute, hold it. are you talking to me like taxy. remember taxi driver? are you talking to me? there is nobody else here. you must be talking to me. what about that? that kind of takes that whole issue off the table that divisiveness that the president is going to try to point out that mitt romney is a divisive guy and doesn t ....
And say these are the fundamental issues in the election. bill: all right. have you got 90 minutes in this election. the first half of it is going to be on the economy. then there is something about governance, you negotiation philosophy this wishy washing stuff is not going to amount to anything. the economy is going to be everything. how much does mitt romney promote himself and how much does he attack his proponent. put a percentage on it. romney has a lot of air time tonight and make his points. how much does he point out what i m going to do and how much does he attack what the president has done. on a percentage 2 to 1 what i m going to do. because he already has a large enough reservoir of voters to ho have rejected barack obama. romney vote plus the undecided vote in every poll is well over 50. what he has got to do is convince those undecides that he is the guy to do it. bill: 2 to 1 positive rather than negative. the third thing he has to ....