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Saying were going to figure out how to work even eric canter turned to his staff and said if this guy governs this way republicans arent going to be back in the majority for a very long time. >> i believe that. >> so does he have what it takes? bill clinton turned on a dime. we didnt believe in 1994 -- >> i think it was six months of turning. >> yeah. >> but clinton had a huge advantage over obama. clinton had lost the governorship after being the youngest governor in the country. >> he governed...

0 i think conservatives want to see not just big events in terms of big ideas but big events that grab the nations attention. the romney campaign is frustrated because they say all the press asks them about is process but thats par for the course and true in every campaign ive ever covered, the press will talk about process particularly polls. mitt romney, conservatives are waiting for him to be big in events, big in message, big in personality. it seems like right now the campaign is waiting fo...

>> this is a fuse. in the case of irans nuclear plans to build a bomb, a red line should be drawn right here. >> okay. first of all i have to say this. whats with the wile-e-coyote nuclear bomb? you really going to pretend -- you going to pretend that you dont know what a nuclear bomb looks like? youre israel. run downstairs and look in the basement. although if that is the sort of bomb were dealing with i think ive got a pretty easy solution to this entire iran problem. >> welcome to ...

Manage the chaos. i think people saying that its romney kind of miss the point. this is a party that has moved so far to the right that im not sure jeb bush or chris christie or any of the other ones could have managed it any better because the problem is the actual party itself has really moved off of center and theyve gone to far right. and they dont -- not enough people identify with that. when they look at themselves in that fun house mirror of fox news, that fun house mirror of talk radio, ...

0 he doesnt have emotion -- he doesnt have any kind of idea of any reason hes there except to get the job. he has no passion that i can ever spot, and spontaneity, hes got to have it memorized like cookies coming down a chute already baked for him so he doesnt have to think. if he thinks, as you say -- if you ask this guy any question you hadnt heard before, what would come out of his mouth? the romney from massachusetts or the romney from bain or the romney from nordquist or the neocons? >> the...

right before that debate the kennedy brothers arrived to discover something weird had happened. the temperature was meat locker level. so cold they couldnt believe it, and they knew why. kennedys television adviser went racing to the basement and found nixons guy standing watch on the thermostat. nixon had sweated in that first debate, and it cost him. this time the nixon people were intent on freezing the room so cold that nixon couldnt sweat at all. well, after a standoff in that bas...

The uk, offends one of our strongest allies. he repeatedly puts ton the wall and makes mistakes and thats why were where we are, 44 days out. >> dee dee, the political prism through which to look at this is what is his biggest negative he has to deal with does he connect with average voters. >> does he have any understanding at all life outside the bubble that hes lived in? theres no point in his life. with the possible exception with his one admission to paris where hes gotten himself outside o...

>> can romney still win? >> of course he can still win. weve got four debates left. 45 days left. dee dee knows better than anybody else. the old saying, harrod mcmillan who said in politics a week is a lifetime. give anybody 40, 45 days and they can change everything. the biggest concern is the attitude in mitt romneys head right now. when he says, that they dont need to turn the campaign around, when you have stuart, stevens and others saying full steam ahead, thats a serious problem. if they ...

He repeatedly puts ton the wall and makes mistakes and thats why were where we are, 44 days out. >> dee dee, the political prism through which to look at this is what is his biggest negative he has to deal with does he connect with average voters. >> does he have any understanding at all life outside the bubble that hes lived in? theres no point in his life. with the possible exception with his one admission to paris where hes gotten himself outside of his comfort zone -- >> going to paris? the ...

Well solve it after a big national crisis. >> well have a big national debate. dee dee youve been through this with a candidate before. look at this from politico in terms of the anticipation of these debates. the nerms quite high. 83% saying they plan to wind chill all or some. is there too much being built into these debates in terms of potential game-changers? >> people look at the history of debates, they dont change the dynamic of the race, but mitt romney is taking it seriously, its possib...