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A couple cases i can think of, one you talked about on your show, massachusetts was part of this regional gas initiative, this regional effort to lower greenhouse gas emissions. i remember being at an energy conference when mitt romney was defending it and saying i ve had industry leaders come up to me, meaning corporations saying this is going to hurt our bottom line because energy costs are going to go up. i assured them it was only 1 or 2%. there was a certain point he changed and get mad at me and said i have to get you a transcript of that. i said, i was there and now you re slamming it saying it will lead to higher energy costs. another one the head of the transportation in massachusetts blue ribbon panel and looked at recommendations we need billions ....
That is very difficult to imagine him saying today. to the extent he has an ideology, it is pragmatism. i think that is who he is at heart. when you ask him about it, he says, look, i wrote this book no apology, all my views are in there. the fact is, you re right, he has changed on a number of things, well beyond abortion stuff that got so much attention. this started in 2005 and 2006, when he was starting to run for president last time and you see this gradual evolution and ironically, he s tried to tack back to the middle and run as mr. fix-it economic guy and has been forced now to defend his right and here we are in almost april still talking about rick santorum. scott helman, author of the real mitt romney from the boston globe. thanks for talking to us. i understand you re covering him in an ongoing way and i may not ....
Company in thinking that. mitt romney had a meeting in washington with paul ryan and happy to publicize that was happening. this all happens as paul ryan is rolling out his new budget which would dismantle medicare and end what we know as medicare and embrace the coupon system. when you have embraced paul ryan and essentially running with paul ryan and maybe you might pick paul ryan as your vice presidential running mate, you are the guy with the guy who proposed killing medicare. paul ryan described in the wall street journal last year ending medicare as we know it. what is the romney campaign doing to head it off? it is barack obama who wants to end medicare as we know it. what? it is okay to be confused by that. it s supposed to be confusing. designed to muddy the water, make the attack meaningless, steal its power as an attack by making it seem like, this is a generic thing you say about people in politics, it doesn t ....
Satisfaction. he took the harder and the more honorable path. when i saw what had happened, i thought to myself, i hope that s a call i would have made. i hope that s the call i would have made. that means something very different than that s the call i would have made. does this sort of quoting technique seem familiar to you? senator mccain s campaign actually said, and i quote, if we keep talking about the economy, we re going to lose. it s going to take a new direction. if we keep talking about the economy, we re going to lose. i think it is an important that mitt romney lies a lot as a presidential candidate and seems to be okay with the lying. as he becomes the presidential party nominee, the de facto leader, is his ethical standard on lying going to set the standard on the right. we contacted the wall street journal today to find out if ....
Really mean anything. mr. romney trying to in knock cu late himself against the power of you want to kill medicare attack. the rnc is saying the obama administration is waging a war on women. wait. obama is waging a war on women? democrats are waging a war on women? it s okay to be confused. that s the point, the way this technique works. the republicans have realized the war on women is a very powerful attack against them. in the general election, likely the majority of voters will be women. republicans understanding they have screwed up with anti-contraception, anti-abortion, anti-planned parenthood they have pursued. you see them running away with it. the blunt rubio that failed in the senate. it appears the house are not just delaying a vote on that ....