governor for romney in massachusetts. you were there then and know what happened when he was shaping the government. according to the organization the political women s political caucus massachusetts government appointments project, massgap, you re familiar with, they say they did present lists of women to both candidates then, and that, in fact, for the first couple of years that the romney administration and romney haley administration had a pretty good record, improved new appointments of women to 42%. but then in the last couple of years of the administration, it fell back to only 25%. at least that s their numerical take. numbers don t tell everything. but when you heard him say binders full of women, did you was that sort of a male or a romney how did you react to it? i spent hours going pouring over the resumes in those binders. i knew what he was talking about. i know everyone is having perhaps a good laugh about this. but the real point there is that governor romney no
the president had to make. whether he wanted to make it not he needed to find the right opportunity to make it and i thought the close was the time. he wasn t just talking to that room full of undecided voters. he was talking to the country. i think in that context speaking directly as he did to the camera and to the people around, it seems to me that was the most compelling thing he could do, especially in a close like he was making at the time. very effective presentation. and michael steele, the president is being given credit by a lot of the analysts overnight about what he said about libya. he was in a rough spot. arguably on the facts. but when he really looked in that camera and looked at governor romney and said don t tell me that i don t care about these people i know these people they are my diplomats, that was pretty powerful stuff. it was powerful and very presidential in that moment. that s one of the dangers a challenger has on that national stage with the president o
sit on their keisters as reagan would say. they don t want to work. they really want to take government money. you and i don t. megyn: there are some people. there are people that is really derogatory and insulting to those that need government assistance. that is not fair. i m not using the word lazy. people take the path of least resistance. megyn: i only have a short time. i also want to get to this. the mitt romney paid made the point, compassion you need yes. you need the government to help. way country came up, neighbors helping neighbors an friends helping others and family in the community. not so much uncle sam, alan. that is great if everybody has neighbor to help and organization to go to. not everybody can day pend upon that. when romney said at the same time will cut tax rates from the rich to 35 to 25% or the rich will not pay less than now just disingenuous. megyn: will cut tax rates across the board. not just for the rich. numbers don t match up.
deductions and exemptions, make sure we don t put bigger burden on middle income, i want to lower burden on middle income people. governor, where are the specifics how you get to this map. isn t that an issue? the specifics are these, which is those principles i described are the heart of my policy. give me an example of a loophole you will close. i can tell you people at the high end, high income taxpayers have fewer deductions and exemptions. here is the problem with his tax plan. numbers don t add up. he says he will drop marginal rate by 20%. repeal estate tax and alternative minimum tax, drop corporate rate to 25%. all told, that would cost $4 trillion in ten years. the problem, mr. chairman, that s a lot of money. a lot of money. the question i have, why won t he tell us what deductions you know the big three deductions. house, charity, state and local. that s where the money is. lee sutton says go where the money is. how is he going to go there. i don t take
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