america and were ignored. they say the president was so insulted, he was positioned as a liar. but what he said was telling the truth. he prevented the investigation from moving forward almost as pun sh-fplt think about that. we can t investigate, the f.b.i. can t get off the ground. it is ambassador rice s statement against what the president of libya was saying because they thought we made him look bad to the rest of the world or american audience. gretchen: this was before the election, so it was paramount to this president that his talking point his campaign was giving out at the time still remain the same which was al qaeda was on the run. that was central to every single stump speech. if you have this attack and four americans die, maybe that doesn t gel. brian: it is amazing mitt romney didn t go after that for an investigation. if you want to be president and you think there s something here. he played a conservative, didn t pursue it. that proves one thing, big
out for the good of the party, for the good of the country. gr but he hasn t done that once in this campaign at all. it seemed to me that people who were looking for him to not mince words. rch was listening to romney s answer and again you saw him being very careful. i disagree. i think to be careful would be what mitt romney has done in the pa past. i think here we have more of a situation that we had in 2002 when george w. bush and carl loaf allowed trent lott to twist in the wind. they never said, trend lott, you must quick because we are offended. the first time i saw the white house s non-defense, he was done.
joe, you covered a lot of campaign. look how stupid this campaign has become. it is stupid. it s an emmy, empty, empty campaign. a couple weeks ago i always quote mika. she said it s a seinfeld campaign, it s a campaign about nothing and it just keeps getting dumber. i was. out for the ryan/romney rollout. still no details about anything. i was surprised by how there was no red meat. there were no it was really an upbeat kind of talk and he s back to doing romney is back to doing what worked for him in the very beginning, talking about the economy, talking about jobs, talking about small business, that sort of thing. he didn t say one word about any social issue. and heap said practically
is why mitt romney is where he is. he s going to have to step out at some point on some issue. you mentioned hispanics and women. i would add a third category bankers. there are a lot of conservatives who have said the great sister soulja moments he could have it breaking up the five big banks who are in a position of moral hazard now. he has no problem talking about iran. he s ready to bomb them at a hair trigger. iran is a little more complex i would argue but when he talked about iran yesterday in new hampshire, he was very cautious. he didn t well let s go to war! i just there s got to be
right. i was challenging romney. you want to be the leader of our party, stand up and i m not going to be told that i m trying to cover for mitt romney. it s the first time romney got it right. what would happen if romney said i am offended by this, as he said, and get out of the race today! and akin goes screw you, i m in the race. what are the headlines the next day going into the convention? if he can t even control a little congressman, we would all be saying it, nobody respects mitt romney, he can t even control a little congressman who is an extremist in his party. i don t think this is a close call, though, right? and i think the bigger question here is were akin s comment as complete anomaly, came out of nothing or is this part of the