to, they should given numbers take both houses. and the white house. bob: kim, the independents who will decide this presidential election. in new hampshire, mitt romney. kimberly: they re ripe for the picking. bob: they have a serious problem with independents. as does barack obama. kimberly: who can get them better than romney? bob: not romney. greg: eric, doesn t this tell you in the last couple of years when the republicans weren t around the american public was counterweight to obama? eric: i don t know if i m reading that. the most important thing you read from that two to one conservatives over liberals is not about who will win the white house. where are the states going to go. not just the senate or the house, but the state legislature is moving to the right. the middle of the country now is red. getting more red.
maybe romney envy perhaps. i m not sure what is more outrageous. obama usurping congress for more executive privilege or theattacking romney from the let and side of his mouth. bob: usurping congress is one thing because they don t do anything. what obama is doing is something you should rally around. streamline government and bring departments together. i m not sure what he said that was so wrong. he is trying streamline and make it work. as opposed to streamline, cut, rip it apart and send jobs overseas like romney does. eric: it sounded like he needs more executive privilege to power the pen. dana: you can see the campaign strategy. if we run against congress we need nuggets to throw out along the way. this was first brought up last january. year ago this month in the state of the union.
he said with or without congress i ll keep at it. it would be easier if congress helped. meaning he will do it no matter what. bleaking the law of the land breaking the law of the land. kimberly: that is the problem. these are desperate times because of the situation he did help create. it s not just past administrations. this works really well for romney. united states is begging and taking out a help wanted ad. commander-in-chief with business experience to get us out of this. he is well-suited and he can turn it around and play to his advantage. say i m not a guy to throw something up against the wall and see if it sticks. i know what to do. any concerns about romney will dissipate. eric: you said newt can t see his own hump. greg: i did say that.
of a terrorist throw you a rundraiser. kimberly: good point. bob: if i could make a point about the romney ad. he will have to have courage to answer questions about bain capital. what happened to his 100,000 jobs he kept saying he was all for 100,000 and now down to 1,000. it notice that. the first return on the bain capital investors are to investors. that s what they want to do. whatever maximizes the return, losing jobs for people or cutting businesses, they ll do it. eric: first, private equity means, private means it s not government money. greg: that is a key point. pensions that rin vesting in it. kimberly: like calpers. eric: sometimes. not all the time. allow me. you made a point about 100,000 jobs. if i m romney and i m his campaign manager i do this.
administration to put free market on trial. as the wall street journal said, mr. romney s g.o.p. opponents are embarrassing themselves by seeking the obama line. eric: what do you think of that? dana: effective defense. one thing they talk about is he is going to have to talk for himself. but also effective to have others defend you. i pulled this out of the wall street journal. jonathan macy, yale law school professor, one thing he said is the private equity firm are equity investors. they don t get paid back until creditors are paid back. that s one thing that was an outrage of solyndra. they reengineered a deal to help the private equity people getting the government money to paid back first before the tax kimberly: got bonuses. greg: let me add. once sub explain what is bain it, it s really boring. people stop caring. this is not if the same realm