medicaid on the other hand. people have put money into the system and reap the rewards later. to might is not an issue of whether it s justified, whether it s an entitlement or short term that it s necessary. the fact is there isn t that counter offering in our society. we right now are losing jobs. even though we are talking about unemployment rate that has moved down. we still have 23 million people in this country who are in pain and governor romney spoke about those people. but he did not speak to them. and that was i think a central failure of his candidacy. the issue of entitlements when you call social security, medicare and disability saying that s entitlements, i find that
being pulled to the left by his party and was trying to be more like president clinton and in the middle. now we ll see, right? he s not facing re-election, and whatever he is, we ll know soon. we will. look, he has an urgent set of priorities to reach out because of the expiration of the tax cuts, the issue with sequestration and the automatic budget cuts. he has to reach out across the aisle. megyn, i will be so disappointed, other democrats particularly supporters of president clinton will be so disappointed if he doesn t reach out. bottom line, he s got to prove that he s the man of 2004 and 2008, not of his first term. megyn: we are told that after he spoke with governor romney last night that the first call president obama made was to bill clinton. to thank him for all the support that bill clinton gave him. and he was, i mean, i remember the democratic national convention, he was huge. that speech he gave was very powerful, and it was the one everybody remembered. how big
people, with democrats as he did in massachusetts when he had 87% democrats in his legislature. megyn: and then there was this comment from another host at another channel about how fortunate some folks were to see sandy hit? watch. i m so glad we had that storm last week, because i think the storm was one of those things no, politically i should say. not in terms of hurting people. the storm brought in possibilities for good politics. megyn: okay. over 100 people dead, hundreds of thousands without power suffering, babies, elderly. i mean, i understand what he was trying to say but really insensitive. well, it s a long list of foolish, insensitive things he has said. i also don t even agree with his sort of political analysis. i just don t think it made that much of a difference. i really and i think it s dangerous for republicans to start trying to say, well, mitt
connection. so peeling a few points off here and there, i mean, if republicans are going to put all their hopes in that, i think that s misplaced. megyn: a lot of folks are now saying, okay, the republicans, conservatives, they need to revamp. become moderate, yeah. megyn: that s right. because they didn t appeal to the latinos and that is the one group mitt romney did not fare very well with. terrible. megyn: and worse than john mccain, mccain got 31% of their support, romney got 27% of their support. saying they need to move to the middle on reproduction, immigration issues. we ve heard this refrain before. we heard it with bob dole, with john mccain. and the fact of the matter is, megyn, in this primary contest that was fought so hard last fall, a lot of the republican wise men said that mitt romney was the only guy who could take on barack obama. he was the most moderate, maybe except for jon huntsman, he was the most moderate guy of the group. the most moderate guy won. and
away from that today saying oh, of course. megyn: saying if romney couldn t do it, there s no way that a santorum could have done it. that is preposterous. i don t know santorum it s hard to say, right? but i do know that we see successful conservative governors changing the landscape of how their states operate. we have scott walker in wisconsin who beat back multimillion dollar push by the unions to survive that recall. we have john kasich in ohio who s had his ups and downs, but that state is humming along really well. megyn: what about the social issues? they didn t come into play. megyn: they re zeroing in on. those social issues did not come into play except to the democrats advantage. why? because they could define mitt romney as a part of the war on women because why? mitt romney never really made the affirmative case to women. when was mitt romney making the case to female small business owners? where was mitt romney talking about the fact that the faith-based com