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How few smarts there are in this white house and in this obama campaign that they expose themselves to the response criticism that i think unlike what mr. cillizza said is going to end up a winning issue for mitt romney. >> isnt it a winning issue for the white house fundamentally, granted that the politifact folks and the white house pointed out the presidents campaign ad on that issue had a lot of questions and a lot of questionable attack lines -- >> they said it was wrong. a lot of questions...

Thing is that he brings a contrast to mitt romney in that pawlenty has working class roots. kid from south st. paul, where i used to live many years ago, grew up irish -- or catholic, rather, hockey player, has a lot of regular guy street cred. nice contrast to mitt romney if youre looking at the republican side. >> and if we look back at the debate, this was last june, just a year ago in new hampshire, a cnn debate. john king was pushing pawlenty to what he had previewed the weekend earlier on ...

Called romneys business record sterling -- bill: and go public again the next morning to add to it. tony finish. >> i just have one other thing. kristen is right. they are trying out all these themes and attack lines. one of them is romney is an extremist. the rasmussen poll that came out show that most americans dont believe that. 52% think hes mainstream. bill: now you have these hits on his record as governor, a republican governor and one of the top five liberal states in america, we could a...

>> so barack obama once again a secret muslim born in kenya influenced by a anti-american pastor. its all new again. to be clear, this is not what mitt romney wants his campaign to be about. hes way too smart for this. he does not want to hit redo on the whackiest parts of 2008. the romney campaign is firmly focused on making this election be about what is happening now. making this about the economy. the last thing romney wants to be doing which he had to do yesterday is talk about things that ...

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Continues to make sure that the voters vote with him, not against him. >> charles, newt gingrich and ron paul say theyre not going anywhere. >> well, i think that they arent. i think romney understands hes on his way and hes talking about obama. two elements of the speech. and he had attack lines and big government. second element is here i am, im acceptable and a businessman, hes a professor but there is a third missing. its reagan had when he ran against a weak opponent in carter. it wasnt a p...

That is his challenge and he continues to make sure that the voters vote with him, not against him. >> charles, newt gingrich and ron paul say theyre not going anywhere. >> well, i think that they arent. i think romney understands hes on his way and hes talking about obama. two elements of the speech. and he had attack lines and big government. second element is here i am, im acceptable and a businessman, hes a professor but there is a third missing. its reagan had when he ran against a weak opp...

He is losing that fight. >> gregg: pat? >> i think the problem, the numbers, the 40% that say he is to blame, thats pretty high. i think if the republican his a narrative and articulated things, john, about these cases on the president, regularly, i think his numbers -- >> i think there is something else. the white house has concluded if they make a positive case on energy that that is not going to be enough, that it is not going to reduce the prices and they have to go negative on the oil compa...

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The same. >> you know, but those attack lines took on an air of desperation at some times, like this ultimate pander. >> governor romney cut off kosher meals for jewish senior citizens who are on medicaid to save $5 a day? for $5 a day, he said, no, you cant follow your religious prescription. >> well, there you go, its florida, so thats why you had to classify that one as a pander. but lets remember, february is setting up as a very tough month for newt gingrich, especially if he comes out of t...