the president and look more presidential than the man himself. and did he that for 90 minutes and that made it and looked him right in the eye, was respectful. i thought he was better on obama s anniversary than obama was. what about this idea you hear from the left a lot, oh, well, the secret to romney s success in the debate was that this was the moderate romney. that he basically repudiated all of his campaign positions and this is of course what the obama campaign is saying. is that true? well, i think they re allowed to the fact he was able to challenge the president on things thats claimed he s saying and democrats famously say that republicans want polluted water and slave work sweatshops and low wages for working people. and he was able to challenge those things directly to the president. and he never, you know, it s not nice to use the word liar for your opponent in politics, but he was able to basically
about data, and we even joked how he was so focused on data. paul: right. this time around, mitt romney came out and talked about people he had met, a woman with a baby in her arms who told him how difficult it was, a couple that was not able to afford their health care. and you know, he, i think, made the points that he needed to make about the data, but he humanized them and i think that was a great achievement of his on debate. paul: health care distraction from job creation, you inherit a recession, a financial crisis, and instead of focusing on that, romney is saying, you spent two years trying to pass one of your big priorities in social legislation and that s hurt job creation, a powerful point. yeah, it s a good point, but i think the health care issue is not going to go away in this debate. we re going to hear more of it. barack obama was defending his
and they were worried that his fund raising might fall off and there would be a big problem. so, is there new momentum, new optimism on the republican side? no worries about the fund raising dropping off now, i tell you that. i mean, you have not seen this much enthusiasm for mitt romney since he s ever run, going back to 2008. but i think because he went out there and talked about ideas, this is what the republicans have been arguing he needed to do all along because you can t say it s a choice you ve got to prove it s a choice. that s what he did in denver. the most important thing he did, he explained the choices very clearly. he talked about things like growth versus tax hikes, about free market health care versus obamacare and that was the way he needed to explain it to the electorate. paul: jason? it was a very substantive debate. he did layout some ideas and some plans and that s a good thing, but i think these debates were also about more than substance, demeanor, present
debate. including mitt romney s takedown of obamacare, a topic he s largely avoided on the campaign trail. so, why the change of heart? tdd#: 1-800-345-2550 let s talk about that 401(k) you picked up back in the 80s.
idea of obamacare and medicare and said for instance, that medicare works because the insurance companies have to make a profit on top of their administrative cost, medicare doesn t have to do that and it s lowered administrative costs and therefore a better deal. he said that romney s idea of premium support helping people buy insurance in the private marketplace, all economists agree the premium support will cause medicare to collapse. now that s an arguable point and i think that romney is going to engage him on those issues and try to continue to make the case for private sector health insurance. what i found interesting about this exchange is remember, obamacare was supposed to be romney s achilles heel throughout the primaries, his rivals said he wouldn t be able to challenge on that, and i think he proved a lot of people wrong. he pushed right through that and went on offense. and it s an example of his effort to reach across the aisle. bipartisanship, that s interesti