you don t want to sound like you re antilatino or central americans. you want to be for something not against it. the problem with the g.o.p. it sounds like it attacks. that s good in an off-year election when the turn-out is very low. this is going to be 2016 and that s the ball game. if the republicans fail in 2016 it means the last eight years will be permanent. and four years of a hillary clinton administration beyond these last eight years those changes that have happened to america that many of you viewer don t like, those will be permanent. so how they communicate is going to determine what happens in 2016. frank, thank you. thanks. jeb bush ju new poll of possible 2016 g.o.p. contenders. if you take a close look at the list, guess who wasn t on it? got the attention of juan james evans. james is behind something called the draft romney movement and
that is hilarious. how would that have worked? i m curious. it didn t! i m asking this question seriously because that is the point. because back in 2008, the reason why mike huckabee got beaten by john mccain is because fred thompson and john mccain struck this same deal and made the difference in south carolina. how is this going to work? first important to situate ourselves to february when this happened in the gop primary. romney was really struggling and clear he had a tough time winning his home state. there was emerging anybody but romney movement. these guys thought if we can team up and get together it might be enough to knock him off. i remember thinking as a reporter if romney loses michigan it is all going to fall apart and this race would completely unwind for him. the way it was going to work, you join forces. one person is president and one person is vp. you lock it up right then.
national data and individual state level data that we re seeing. and there has been movement. the race has changed and it is much more competitive than it was ten days ago, much more competitive. now the movement in ohio, the romney movement has been weaker than it was nationally or in places like virginia, florida, or colorado. and i think part of that is the obama campaign did a very good job early on airing ads early, focusing on ohio and delivering a message and defining mitt romney. they did not do that as well in the other states and frankly some of the other states have a more fundamental republican bend. it s true, the early obama ads about romney defining him, his wealth, i think it worked. the romney folks have a longer way to go. i should point out, alex, that it is possible, i mean, our newsletter has the president at
for all these years some them our movement, i think my liberal friends in tell you the same about theirs that are never happy. they are always looking for the mistake you make rather than the seven times that you did unbelievably well. but even eric erickson said the governor s speech was terrific at the convention. he acknowledged that as well as he should. i know that bill crystal acknowledged the strong position the governor took last week on foreign policy, areas they are happy with us. we can t worry about the individuals unhappy. i guarantee conservatives rehn news yasically supporting this president. i have a bunch of meetings to go to this governor to be president. there s no question in my mind you the energy momentum is with us. we have the base and now we are moving forward to pingt independents. all right, debut cannon, senior in strategist, adviser to the romney campaign. delighted to be with you. u.s. and libyan officials at odds over whether the deadly attack tha
imagine he would be let go now i mean, that was a process that, you know, built up confidence in mitt romney if he lacked any at the time. just, you know, they knew what stuart stevens, who stuart stevens is and what he s like. like dan indicated, when you get into these homes of stress, you know, the knives come out. but as the politico story itself acknowledged, you know, if you want to look at the problems the romney campaign is having right now, you don t need to look much farther than the candidate himself. so to blame stuart stevens is clarence that is the thing that i think people don t understand. this is mitt romney s way of management, he wanted to runt campaign, he is more involved in things than people realize you had. your bringing you up the primaries is significant. look hoe was running against, the anybody but romney movement. he was able to cobble together enough folks, delegates and states to get the nomination by