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Accounts. i think, i think, mika, more to the point, there may be a few years back there, where mitt romney, the guy worth $300 million, $400 million, paid nothing in taxes. i think thats what theyre really afraid of. >> thats painful. >> for the long run. >> donny? >> i would love to ask everybody around the table a human gut question, forget republican, democrat, conservative, liberal, as a human being, as humans we vote for another human being, when you hear all this stuff, at the end of the ...

Important factors, we just alluded to. the voters said they thought mitt romney could be in charge of that the best. 52%. newt gingrich 30% and so on. surprising or not? >> not really. i think this is a manifestation of the fact that mitt romney has had terrific message discipline talking about his private sector experience, his experience as a job creator. i really think mitt romney is beginning to connect on this issue. it will be the dominant issue in november. >> now, who best understands th...

A lot of candidates when theyre losing say things like, ill fight until the end. we will fight all the tway to te end. newt gingrich is angry enough at mitt romney and the establishment. and he has enough of a base in the south among conservatives that he can fight all the way till -- to tampa or at least all the way till june and really be a problem for romney. >> and also, jon huntsman is looking forward four years, just like romney in 08. gingrich is 68 years old, hes had a national name sinc...

Sheldon adelson. it is for normal people. >> you vegas guys. >> exactly. thats the kind of pocket change we find under our couch cushions. $10 million for a guy worth $22 billion is not that much. there is a history between sheldon adelson and newt. this is personal loyalty. the first $5 million it looked like newt gingrich was going down and then made the south carolina comeback and suddenly sheldon adelson looks like a political genius and his wife who wrote the second $5 million check. i thin...

Not investments. >> dont you agree it is important to do things that are actually productive to society, not just legal? >> bill: that is your opinion that it is productive to society. your opinion is that he should pay more. >> measure in terms of market value. >> bill: when john kerry took his yacht and registered it in rhode island instead of massachusetts, okay, i didnt hear progressive america scream that a guy worth $300 million was trying to dodge yacht taxes by registering it in a lower ...

Rather than earned annual income. i got a little bit of income from my book, but i gave that all away. and then i get speakers fees from time to time, but not very much. >> 15% capital gains tax rate. >> yeah, this is -- this is a problem on a lot of levels. mark haleprin, campaigns are sometimes defined in a moment that the candidate doesnt realize. we can go back -- i dont overstate this, but we can go back to michael dukakis and the tank. we can go back to 1980 and ronald reagan saying, mr. g...

Ers are surprised by all of this. they dont hold out some hope that these politicians are removed from the political experience. its a little bit like president obamas very dismissive of the game of politics in washington. he is the game. hes the president. and i think romney was trying to have it both ways. >> heres mitt romney. grew up very privileged. listen to what he said in an effort to differentiate himself from president obama. >> i dont think he feels it. he experiences it the way so ma...

And i think romney was trying to have it both ways. >> heres mitt romney. grew up very privileged. listen to what he said in an effort to differentiate himself from president obama. >> i dont think he feels it. he experiences it the way so many of you do and i do by virtue of having lived in the real world. i know what its like to worry whether youre going to get fired. there were a couple of times i wondered whether i was going to get a pink slip. >> well, well think about that in a moment. tod...

Country. frankly, i should tell my story. im also unemployed. >> did he say hes in the middle class? what country club does he hang out at? its unusual for a guy worth upwards of $200 million to call himself part of the great american middle class especially when he still rakes in big bucks for putting people out of work. heres the story. "new york tyimes" reported hes paid a share of bains profits giving him millions every year although hes unemployed. many of bains investment results, theyre i...

What country club does he hang out at? its unusual for a guy worth upwards of $200 million to call himself part of the great american middle class especially when he still rakes in big bucks for putting people out of work. heres the story. "new york times" reported hes paid a share of bains profits giving him millions every year although hes unemployed. many of bains investment results, theyre in bankruptcy. bankrupted companies and loss of jobs. but middle class mitt, well, he doesnt see it tha...