walks. we ll get to the pictures and the quotes in a second. here is the point. i thought cameron would like him. aren t they fellow tories? i think that is exactly the point there has been a tremendous strain in the relationship between britain s conservative party and the republican party here in the united states. going back over the last ten years, since george w. bush forged a very close relationship with former british prime minister tony blair, with whom he was not an ideological soul mate. here was an opportunity for mitt romney and david cameron, peas in a pod politically, both conservatives to try and establish some kind of alliance that could take them both forward. and instead, mitt romney has found himself causing david cameron to come out and push back on this issue of the olympics, because as chris ship knows, better i think than any of us, david cameron s own credibility is at stake over the success or failure of these olympic games. well, let s look at romney tryin
word. to make your point. back to you, reverend. this makes the point. the percent sedge of people saying president obama is a muslim rise as you move toward the right on the political spectrum. 30% of republicans. 34% of conservative republicans believe he is a member of the islamic faith. just 8% of democrats do. it really does move absolutely with correlation here. as you go from left to right or center left to right, it just goes higher and higher percentages of people believe that he is a muslim. if you went to nazi i suppose you would get 50 or more%. it s unbelievable. but chris, these are people who are judging a man s religion who don t know much about religion. and in fact, what they know some politician has told them. i actually think that there is a bright spot in this whole thing with what ms. bachmann has done. when interfaith alliance put out the word about us getting together a letter protestering
ron has watched this for a long time. there s a certain amount of spin and interpretation that you can get away with, but i think these guys are really far over the line. and there s nothing to call them out. here s the problem, ron. i was just thinking of this. we re not aiming these ads on the left center and the left or the 47% on the right. we re naming it at the 6% in the middle. and those 6% i will argue until doomsday are inintentive. they haven t made up their minds because they haven t watched this stuff. they will fall for this. that s quite possible. i was reading in the washington post online today, here s how this could work for romney. ironically the article was about how this could work for romney and inadvertently the author made his own point for himself by demonstrating how it would work. not once in the article did the author do what you did, chris, which is call this what it is.
are you prepared? and he makes a shot at the londoners he is trying to woo, the first thing he says seems offensive. without a script by his bright team, he is lost in space. he can perform well in debates. so i wouldn t count him out. the lower he sinks, if he makes a comeback and performance well, he ll get extra credit for that. he obviously has a gaffe problem and has for some years. and to be sort of a dime store shrink for a second, chris, i attributed it all to the most famous gaffe of modern american politics, which was in 1967 by george romney when he said in a local detroit television interview that he had been brainwashed in vietnam. so if you re george romney s son, and you revere your father, the one thing you don t want to do is make a career ending gaffe. so he is in a situation now where it s like don t make a gaffe, don t make a gaffe, don t make a gaffe. and that s like don t think of an elephant, don t think of an
europe because we see things differently on the other side of the atlantic. europe is still very much obama s territory. we still think he is pretty good, he is the world s statesman. he did a lot better things than the guy that came before him. i think mitt romney, apart from the fact that no one really knows who he is was always going to have a tough time. he just made it worse by coming along and saying you guys, not ready for the olympics. the brits aren t very good at looking forward to something. it takes someone from outside to remind them this olympics is a good thing and we re all behind it. and they certainly are tonight. we ll remember this scene. we ll play it again tonight from love actually where the british prime minister played by hugh grant stands up for the country against the gauche combination of a couple of combinations of americans. the worst possibility of yank portrayed in that movie. thank you for joining us, simon marks and chris ship. coming up, this is