Need to make you hope? not somebody with a strong moral core. this same guy, when somebody in his little company s girl was lost, shut the company down and focused on finding that little girl. that s a moral compass. that s a moral compascompass. that s a personal moral compass, not about a political ideology. this guy said whose great chooechlt. one of the things he could run on, would be he s been a governor. his great achievement was the individual mandate, and universal coverage on health care for the people of massachusetts which they really liked. and he did this great thing. but he can t, because he said i m not for that, this guy said i m going to be better on lgbt rights than kennedy. but he can t talk about that. and nobody asked for his birth certificate, he has been asking over and over for the taxes. he can t claim he s an open
Believes. i see it as a strategy. this fits nicely with this whole welfare sort of strategy and the whole new birtherism strategy. frankly, their economic predicate that they have been pounding the president. they have not moved a majority of voters toward them. dole took a lead on clinton. kerry took a lead on bush. none of the polls have you seen him take a statically significant lead. i need to you say that again, in case folks missed that. we remember who won and who lost. there was a point in the campaigns where each of those challengers against an incumbent actually took a lead in the polls. especially when the primary season starts to wrap up, the base of the party starts to rally around them, have you seen them take a lead. romney has never sort of taken a a significant lead in any of the polls, even nbc s
Affairs, and the actual nominating part is another prop in the political theater. the challenge to incumbent gerald ford, the last time in u.s. history there was ever any real suspense over who would be a party s nominee. now that nominee is settled on during the primary process, conventions are about something else entirely. first, a lot of pomp and circumstance. more importantly, about reintroducing the country to the party s official nominee. for those americans who don t start paying attention to the election until conventiontime, no one in nerdland, when rid nominee step mitt romney st the stage, they will meet him for the first time. it s time for them to cement in the minds who he is before election day. bill clinton introduced us to the man from hope. or in 2000, we were presented george bush as a country boy
It approaches the gulf. live reports on the latest path of the storm and how severe it might get. plus, how the storm is affecting plans for the republican national convention. will it steal the headlines from mitt romney for much of the week? the economy, women s vote, medicare and mitt vote, and mitt romney s critical convention speech. we re going to discuss all that with debbie wasserman schultz and kay bailey hutchison. back to you. i appreciate it. this isaac thing has be me worked up. so i ll be watching. and thank you, my footnote is ahead. i m going to talk about why none of us deserve to be in a big box. [ male announcer ] you ve reached the age where you don t back down from a challenge. this is the age of knowing how to make things happen. so, why let erectile dysfunction get in your way? talk to your doctor about viagra. 20 million men already have. ask your doctor if your heart is healthy enough for sex. do not take viagra if you take nitrates for chest pain;
Republican party favors this week, the republican national convention gets underway in tampa, florida. even i am wearing an elephant pin. republicans will come together to vote on the party s national platform and make the nomination official with presidential pick, former governor mitt romney. he has so share the spotlight with one unexpected guest crashing the party. tropical storm isaac. it is expected to dump heavy rains and wind on the more than 50,000 people gathered for convention at the tampa bay times forum. isaac is responsible for republicans deciding to convene the convention on monday and then suspend activity until tuesday afternoon. we ll have an update for you on the path of the storm in a few moments. the storm is an unwanted and rare piece of unmanufacturered trauma at this week s event. modern day presidential conventions are highly chor choreogra choreographed, carefully planned