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Mind, that was a very powerful ad. i think those testimonies last night, which had to move everybody. how could you not, whatever your politics. i dont think youve heard the last of them. wasnt necessarily put them out now. >> the other thing i think is youre correct on that, we know from the campaign, that what they were doing was trying to get through the summer when they were getting hammered constantly and making a lot of very senior republicans very uneasy because they were not responding b...

Rambling but to say, highly off colored jokes about -- that a lot of people would cringe in middle america about. highly offensive. and tying that to the president of the united states is exactly opposite of what you want to do to make your pitch to independent and swing voters. it was discorded and we are not following a bright sunny object. this was a terrible mistake, terrible staging for what i thought otherwise was a pretty brilliantly run three-day truncated convention. >> the sweet couple...

I it wasnt a home run. >> again keeps him in the game, david gregory. im going to tell you last night after the speech, i was reminded of the first convention i went to. people comparing the john kerry and is this the corridor reagan election or the carter/ford election. i left last night, got hit with a strong sense of deja vu from san diego, 1996, a republican party that loathed bill clinton that would have nominated my dog, and got excited about that, and you had in bob dole not only a decent...

The whole thing, the question to timothy egan asks, he could have answered, he could have at least made reference to the fact that we are in really grave times in this country and moving forward, im your guy. >> right. >> it would have -- he could have addressed some of the specifics of how we want to move forward without, you know, making it too wonky. >> i think like he didnt have to get into the policies on effective tax rates but he could have -- the predominant theme of the speech was we ca...

After the speech runs. whats on "morning joe," whats on "the daily show," what makes a morning radio show because your undecided voters, those are the ones its going to reach. there was no moment in this speech. whats going to be picked up is clint eastwood. >> yeah. which is really not going to hurt him in the long run. its just sort of more of the -- >> its a distraction. >> what in the world happened? did mitt romney close the deal with undecided voters or anything? any pivotal moment in the ...

To do with the whole night, including his speech. second is, they need to keep governor romney from being disqualified. if hes seen as an acceptable alternative, not hated and a lot of what the speech was. i think he made progress there with the people. the other big issue which hasnt gotten as much attention what is the selection event, getting a number of people who voted for barack obama last time to vote for mitt romney this time. he made lines about you liked him the day he got elected but ...

Nikki haley, senator kelly ayotte and secretary of state condoleezza rice. >> you know, michael steele, i talked about being moved by the stories about mitt romney, but several times in the speech where mitt romney started tearing up when he told that story about the rose. >> the rose. >> that was powerful? a great moment for mitt romney. started tearing up. and i thought, well, nobody can call him a robot right now. he felt it. >> he did feel it. that was something i was looking for, to see how...

Personal moments, the rose, every day, that was beautiful. it was beautiful. there was an image he painted in the next sentence of waking up in the morning with the five boys and waking up to a pile of kids in, you know, asleep in the bedroom, and i thought that was a lovely image. the rest of the speech, the policy side such as it was -- >> it was not for us. >> and attack side, i thought it added up to a solid b. >> so jeff, we -- mika and i have known the romneys and been around the romneys o...

Indicated it was going to be. but thats mitt romney. hes not ronald reagan. hes not going to rise to that occasion. >> what those stories told us, they were real and eugene, in the age of the internet and tweeting and politicians saving babies from burning buildings, they did something different here. which they had two stories of families that had lost their children ultimately, nothing could be done for them, but in their moment of sorrow, they were there for them, the romneys were there for t...

>> there was some great -- great line, sam stein. one of the great lines we just heard it which was about stopping the rising of the oceans but im going to help you. which was great. >> the theme of the night too. >> set up a great contrast. but there were also some pretty well-delivered lines in this speech. >> yeah. i thought the whole speech -- i thought the whole night was the microcosm of the romney campaign at large you have this well produced show, going well, romney sort of working throu...