Page 80 - Binary Choice News Today

4, you get a sense that they feared -- if "wall street journal" editorial, they so fear the flip-flop thing they end up putting themselves in another box. >> my colleague reported that when romney was meeting this week with big wigs, including rupert murdoch he was pressing him that romneys response was i dont want to be called a flip-flopper. by way of explaining why he wouldnt move on the immigration. so youre right, because of his experience in 08 and 12 he is so conditioned to avoid anything...

You prefer on the economy. when you give them a binary choice, he wins that. obama wins that. so what you cant let romney do is just run away from all the issues, run away from all the substantive differences, and run away from bain as he always does. and saying if youre mad, well give me a try. could things really get worse? the answer is yes, they could get a lot worse. and what he wants to do to the middle class and ordinary folks in this country while comforting the comfortable at the top of...

They have some successes to point to in his individual record in private equity and can talk about bain from that point of view. i dont know they feel theyre necessarily going to win the bain referendum or want to do that. what they want to do is say he had experience, yes, in a private equity firm where there was job creation at some companies. theyve got to set that apart. i think its difficult because you have this binary choice. on the one hand its about -- the idea that private equity is ba...

I dont know of any woman in america that thinks being called a slut is funny. >> and this is what the democratic party wants to run on? >> theres a dramatic contrast between president obama and his view that women should have access to affordable health care including contraception, and mitt romney and the republicans believe women should not. >> you are presenting as a binary choice, and theres another aspect to it. the new york post covered it this morning, and they said we live in an era that...

And rush limbaugh said he was trying to be humorous. i dont know of any woman in america that thinks being called a slut is funny. >> and this is what the democratic party wants to run on? >> theres a dramatic contrast between president obama and his view that women should have access to affordable health care including contraception, and mitt romney and the republicans believe women should not. >> you are presenting as a binary choice, and theres another aspect to it. the new york post covered ...

Differences. >> chris: you have said that republicans need to focus on the economy and debt. as you said once, to call a truce on social issues. are you troubled when you see republicans talking about contraception and planned parenthood? >> they didnt start this. the president did with very intrusive decision. i think when they get a chance, governor romney this week, talking about all the right issues. ultimately that will be where the election be decided. this economy is the weakest recovery ...

Differences. >> chris: you have said that republicans need to focus on the economy and debt. as you said once, to call a truce on social issues. are you troubled when you see republicans talking about contraception and planned parenthood? >> they didnt start this. the president did with very intrusive decision. i think when they get a chance, governor romney this week, talking about all the right issues. ultimately that will be where the election be decided. this economy is the weakest recovery ...

>> let me ask you another aspect of it. you have said that republicans need to focus on the economy and debt and as you famously said once to call a truce on social issues, are you troubled when you see republicans spending so much time talking about contraception and planned parent rood? >> well, they didnt start this. the president did. there is an intrusive limiting decision. no i think when they get a chance governor romney is talking about all the right issues. thats where this election wil...

That. thats extreme. >> the republican contest has become a binary choice between two similarly miscast candidates. you know what? i think i need my glasses for this one. the tone sort of lends itself to a more scholarly look. mr. romney is not attracting people who want rationality lenned by romance. he is wanting politics with reasonableness. mr. romney looks like a formidable candidate for november. you know thats not me. thats not my voice. thats not me talking. that was george wills latest ...

Loss, on top of the mistakes he made this week which i think are the first substantive arguments, right, that advance, he may not be as electable as we thought he is, right, that gives people motivation to keep the contest going down into the -- into the later winter and early spring. >> looking further than south carolina, no one has put the resources into florida the way romney has. right. >> so, he has put almost a $2 million buyç in there already. so it is that marathon run he is making is...