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Of yourself and then the character question. i mean, at a moment like that when you dont know whats going on, when you know america is under attack, we are all supposed to be americans. >> this is sort of the thing that newt gingrich would do. how can i attack the gut. >> mitt romney went out there and we all talk about the campaign and how can people let him do this? these words passed through his lips not once, but twice. and hes not a dumb guy. he had to know what he was doing and, as you not...

Judgment and character that is raises. domestic policies, you make an of yourself and then the character question. i mean, at a moment like that en you know america is under attack, we are all supposed to be americans. >> this is sort of the thing that newt gingrich would do. how can i attack the gut. >> mitt romney went out there and we all talk about the campaign and how can people let him do this? these words passed through his lips not once, but twice. and hes not a dumb guy. he had to know ...

Its very serious. so, judgment question. and then the character question. i mean, in a moment like that when you dont know whats going on but you know america is under attack, we are all supposed to be americans -- >> this is something -- newt gingrich would jump and say, i can blame the cia for being underfunded. immediately the brain goes to, how can i attack the gut? >> this is a have you no decency moment? i think mitt romney went out there -- we talk about the campaign, how can people let h...

Were back with our roundtable. my big question this week is kind of looking inside the campaigns, if the campaign were happening today, where would things stand? i want to come back to this character question now on the presidents side. here is the headline from the "new york times" this week. an article that made a lot of news. that is that gop super pac weighing a hard line attack on obama. a plan to highlight race-related sermons that focus once again on the reverend jeremiah wright. he, of c...

Were back with our roundtable. my big question this week is kind of looking inside the campaigns, if the campaign were happening today, where would things stand? i want to come back to this character question now on the presidents side. here is the headline from the "new york times" this week. an article that made a lot of news. that is that gop super pac weighing a hard line attack on obama. a plan to highlight race-related sermons that focus once again on the reverend jeremiah wright. he, of c...

This is about a president who thinks that private business is bad. you need bigger government, more regulation, higher taxes, all of those things and people like mitt romney who are job creators fundamentally suck the life out of the economy. governor romney has to be making the alternate view about why free markets matter, why government isnt the answer and why job creators have to be left to do what they do. >> let me get a break in here. i want to come back and talk more about if the election...

Bayne critique on this level issuing a video for out of work americans and telling more stories about regular people on the campaign trail. he hasnt done an effective job fepding off the bayne critique, and maybe this is why. the idea he lacks empathy becomes so deeply embedded its impossible to shake. >> yesterday joe biden was certainly striking that familiar chord. you look at biden talking, and then you look at mitt romney, and its obvious will that one guy is connected with working class am...

How she was a central player in the foreign policy of the presidents administration. its a stretching of the truth that causes the character to fall awaparapart. when he portrays baynes record as one of job creation, it falls down. the primary goal was increasing capital value for shareholders. thats what they should be doing. thats what private equity does. every time he stretches it out into a story about jobs, it falls apart. then you have the bigger character question, not just why were you ...

Republican party. to the character question, i also think that peggy noonan has it a little bit inverted. we get caught up on the sex scandals because theyre interesting and tell ourselves were patrolling or doing it for character. the secret service scandal is getting too much attention because it involves naked women and prostitutes and people fighting. >> and also an institution that was heretofore sort of untouchable, seen as the -- >> but i would argue that there was a shooting in front of ...

Not that steve has documented 10 lies, 10 volumes of lies, 10 catalogs of lies so far. mr. romney is okay with lying when he runs for president when he gets caught and it is amazing, the most notable thing about his presidency, the thing we have to grapple with as a country, whether this sort of thing is the sort of thing we expect, whether its okay for somebody running for president or not okay, whether it goes to his character and what we expect of people running nor an office this high. heres...