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Motors, costing the taxpayers more money. he and his friends at the vulture capitalist made as you said 3,000% to 4,000% return on their investment in delphi by holding up general motors and costing the government more money. >> all right. lets talk -- >> costing taxpayers more. >> lets talk about this extort and hold up general motors. now, delphi is critical to the automobile manufacturing business. they, of course, manufacture parts that go into automobiles with general motors that they just ...

Actually invested. remember, mitt romney was against the automobile rescue. he wrote this op-ped in "the new york times" saying that we should let detroit go bankrupt. "now were learning he made at least $15 million off the very policy he opposed. tonight the united autoworkers are demanding the truth. joining me tonight, bob king, president of the united autoworkers. mr. king, good to have you with us tonight. this is -- >> great to be with you, ed. >> you bet. this is about conflict of interes...

Participate in a politics of cynicism or hope in 2004. >> i think all barack obama is saying were here is a guy who stood in a room when he didnt think anybody was rinsing and saying he wasnt one of us. he divided us into the 47% versus the rest of us. with barack obama hes saying what mitt romney has already said. a guy worth $220 million who is building elevators to move his cars around in the new house. he wasnt a venture cal capitalist according to stockman, the budget director under reagan....

Its a waste of time. >> now, steve, is that the problem, the feeling of elitism? he is not the kind of cozy, likeable guy, and then on top of it, his posture and his policy smacks of elitism across the board to a lot of americans that dont usually agree on a lot of politics? >> yeah. i mean, weve seen evidence of this already this year. we saw evidence of it as far back as the republican primaries, the south carolina primary where romney lost by 15 points to newt gingrich. a big reason for that ...

Government employees, unions, liberal institutions, everything from the ohio teachers union to the los angeles police department, all of these blue states, government employees, invest in bain capital. they put their money, their retirement fund, their pensions in bain. and so right now bain is responsible for the lively hoods martha, and retirement funds of all of these traditionally democratic workers which make up obamas base. to say somehow the bain vulture capitalist firm doesnt do good wor...

States like ohio, where they portray him in that steelworkers ad and other ads where they show him as a vulture capitalist who essential low cares nothing about ordinary folks. that does hurt. the problem is its so little a reflection of reality. if youre a voter, and you end up ending up at the polls, so youre interested enough to go into the polls youre not going to rely exclusively on that. youre going to show some interest, and chances are youll either see romney in this speech, ryan in this...

Governor romney can pull a ronald reagan here at this convention. what do you mean by that and what does he do to pull a ronald reagan? >> this is my 12th presidential campaign. i was around in 1980. reagan won the information, presumptive nominee, down 14 points to jimmy carter. by august he was still down nine points to ji jimmy carter. people knew jimmy carter shouldnt be re-elected, but they werent sure about reagan. at the debates, they said, all the bad stuff they say about reagan, i like ...

You. >> i think youre right that it is rooted in some way in policy. classically people say the democrats are the mommy party, and republicans are the daddy party, and mommy isnt going to remove your breakfast from you. and they always think of the republicans as mean guys who just want to cut. with romneys case it goes beyond the policy, because the reason that becomes a credible argument is because they feel from his personal history that he doesnt care, and thats where the hundreds of million...

That were going to try really hard to define. now the choice is you may not like afghanistan or renewable energy or solyndra or health insurance coverage for contraception or something, fine. do you like medicare? now it is a choice. it is no longer just a referendum on obama and thats everything they wanted. >> bill bennett, how do you see it? >> well, i see paul ryan as a serious man for serious times. and heres what i think. it is a clear choice. there will be a serious debate. people will pa...

Like afghanistan or renewable energy or solyndra or health insurance coverage for contraception or something, fine. do you like medicare? now it is a choice. it is no longer just a referendum on obama, and thats everything they wanted. >> bill bennett, how do you see it? >> well, i see paul ryan as a serious man for serious times. and heres what i think. it is a clear choice. there will be a serious debate. if people will pause and think about the debate, think about the arguments, and take paul...