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What the republican solution was. there was never a reason to look to mitt romney for those people. >> bill: well, ill cede that. the governor ran a laid back campaign where he didnt go after the competency issue where he could have on libya, a number of other things, audient do that. he felt that because of the first debate he could ride it out and he would win just purely on economic fear. and didnt happen. going forward, miss schaefer, certainly it is a very challenging environment for the re...

What the republican solution was. there was never a reason to look to mitt romney for those people. >> bill: well, ill cede that. the governor ran a laid back campaign where he didnt go after the competency issue where he could have on libya, a number of other things, audient do that. he felt that because of the first debate he could ride it out and he would win just purely on economic fear. and didnt happen. going forward, miss schaefer, certainly it is a very challenging environment for the re...

Softer approach, not to challenge the president, not to be overly aggressive. was that the smart way to handle it? >> it was frustrating for me as it was for you. i sat there watching the tv and with my body language i wanted him to throw more punches. but i think the key thing was romney did not want to make news in this debate. he did not want to change the subject the last two weeks of the election. he has got the election now squarely focused on the economy. all the polls so show that by to ...

Able to tell the american people that barack obama has screwed it up. now what you are doing and not only has he screwed up the economy, excuse me, he screwed this up. so its a competency issue. what would have been wrong with that? >> because, you never know how its going to play out. you never know how its going to work. you never know what the ricochet is going to be. overwhelming facts on your side. >> so what he had facts on his side in the second debate and it didnt work out on libya. i th...

Softer approach, not to challenge the president, not to be overly aggressive. was that the smart way to handle it? >> it was frustrating for me as it was for you. i sat there watching the tv and with my body language i wanted him to throw more punches. but i think the key thing was romney did not want to make news in this debate. he did not want to change the subject the last two weeks of the election. he has got the election now squarely focused on the economy. all the polls so show that by to ...

Challenge the president, not to be overly aggressive. was that the smart way to handle it? >> it was frustrating for me as it was for you. i sat there watching the tv and with my body language i wanted him to throw more punches. but i think the key thing was romney did not want to make news in this debate. he did not want to change the subject the last two weeks of the election. he has got the election now squarely focused on the economy. all the polls so show that by to to one he is more truste...

Able to tell the american people that barack obama has screwed it up. now what you are doing and not only has he screwed up the economy, excuse me, he screwed this up. so its a competency issue. what would have been wrong with that? >> because, you never know how its going to play out. you never know how its going to work. you never know what the ricochet is going to be. overwhelming facts on your side. >> so what he had facts on his side in the second debate and it didnt work out on libya. i th...

Half, more than that since. jerd arguably and by eyewitness accounts haoes heinous horrible crimes. six people died, gabrielle giffords still recovering. i want to draw a comparison to the movie "massacre" the guy who claims, im the joker. could we see the same sort of thing, chip merlin in that case? there d could be a real hurdle here for prosecutors to prove that guy is competent. >> well, except that they never raised the competency issue at the hearing last week. i was kind of surprised tha...

Federal law have to be out 45 days before march 6th. that would be january 21st. bill: youre saying perry, huntsman, santorum and gingrich have a shot at winning with this? >> i think they have a shot. people did not expect that at first but this judge opened the door to that. well see what the fourth circuit says because it is getting so late in the game. it is punishing candidates who followed the rules. i think competency issue. virginia go back and say we dont want to go through this again. ...

President obama so i dont -- its going to be interesting to see how this story unfolds but i do think that the attorney general is in trouble. >> i do think this -- if you listened to the press conference yesterday, so many reporters were asking tougher questions now. starting with the first one, they seem to be trying to -- to drill down on a lot of these issues. >> i think youre right in the sense that the individual reporters sense that theres something not right. i think its more of a compet...