when he was asked about it during tonight s debate, pawlenty got a little stage fright while standing right next to the former massachusetts governor. president obama stood before the nation in 2008 and said he promised to do health care reform focused on cost containment, along with republicans. heeds he d do it on a bipartisan bases the question is why obamnicare? this is another example of him breaking his promise. you don t want to address why you called it obamneycare. what are the similarities between the two and i cited president obama s own words that looked to massachusetts as a blue print or a guide when he designed obama care. fair enough, but you chose those words. one of my questions is, why
republicans have an awesome story to tell. every one of us in the three-legged stool, we need the fiscal conservatives and we need the social conservatives and we need everybody to come together because we re going to win. just make no mistake about it. i want to announce tonight. president obama is a one-term president. one-term president because we have a bunch of bush talk tonight. i didn t hear any new ideas whatsoever, michael? not one championship, not two championships, four, five, six or seven. we heard that before. the prognostication about winning is one thing when you re in the rev up. michele bachmann scored tonight not only because of what joan and e.j. have spoken about, but also because she strategically announced her candidacy tonight so that, you know, she was undecided before she got there. by announcing tonight, she gets a smaller leg up on her opponents because it makes a different kind of news, as well.
in the story to tell, you can t fault her for her passion or idealism but in terms of squaring that with reality, if you were for big business tonight, you felt good. if you were for people with not people against the wall, if you re talking about social security or medicare and talking about insurance in this obomneycare that was put together, then, fine. but if you are the person who are working hard and any part of a union or god forbid making a decision about your life either in the military your own, republicans want the government to stay out of their bedrooms until they want to get into someone else s bedroom. taking a look at these polls, romney at 24% in usa today gallup poll. palin was not there tonight and she s at 16%. i thought about what kind of answers palin would give.
e.j., what do you think? i m still in the camp that says she s not going to run and it turns out balkmchmann does a better job of palin than palin does. primary voter and a middle of the road swing voter. i think there was, if you re a republican primary voter, for example, on the auto bailout. you hate the auto bailout. in that sense, everything would appeal to that base. if i m running michigan for barack obama, i m very happy with what came out tonight. i don t think a michigan person would respond to that. i think you want more than cut taxes, cut regulation and get rid of the epa and i m not sure they had much to give that voter tonight and i don t know how they ll pivot off this right-wing position. nothing for small business. boogie man, obviously, is the government. get rid of everything president obama did. it was pretty vanilla as far as the republicans were concerned,
7,000 and 30,000. how does romney fair with that answer? that is one place where i m not assessing a little damage to him. he thinks he will be strong in michigan. he is a favorite son. not only factually wrong, but politically tone deaf. between those two things, he may have hurt himself there and, look, you know, of course, the uaw is going to be their scapegoat, but they did take a hair cut. they are reducing jobs and reducing benefits and they played along and they compromised and so i think it was a really stupid answer. i also heard the trade, the nod to trade agreements and that was interesting. but, again, they don t have the fundamental idea about how this works. michael eric dyson, how about as we move forward in the conversation as far as jobs in this country, michele bachmann was saying that the republicans have a great story to tell. let s look at this. republicans have an awesome