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This. hes a complete pro, but these are not actually debates. weve had this conversation before. they are interesting televised appearances with some aspects of debate. but i do think that the answer to something you raised earlier, that from mitt romney may indeed want to refer to what happened in benghazi and libya, oversights and so forth, and the context of a larger leadership. however, in my personal opinion and this is shared by a lot of republicans, that anytime mitt romney spins isnt on ...

Wins the debate. exceptions. gerald ford in 76 against jimmy carter, who felt very nervous debating with an incumbent president. he was little bit modest. then clinton and bob dole. >> howard dean said that president obama should not make the same mistake al gore did in 2000 against george w. bush. >> thats not the way americas meant to be. >> and there, theres nixon with the flop sweat. george h.w. bush looking at his watch. appearances count, dont they? >> they really do. and a professional kn...

Row and said why not harvest moon. >> challengers can benefit from being on stage with an incumbent. weve seen that before. take a look at this clip. >> ask yourself, are you better off than you were four years ago? >> now, this race has often been compared to the carter reagan race in 1980 and the romney campaign has used that line of attack. is that the idea of what you think we might hear tonight? what kind of zinger are we going to hear? >> well, in reagans case, he took from franklin roosev...

The optics of it. heres what he said. >> if the republicans want to defend the bush administrations response to katrina, im sure the president would give them his time during the debate to do that. but look, i am, i have to say im a little amazed that as you mentioned, a widely covered speech, likely by people at your network, is somehow caused a cur fluff l five years later. >> i love that. so, dan, i guess question is there is no doubt about this fact that it was covered. it was open to the pu...

Other candidates had run over time. it didnt really compute this was sending the message that he was impatient, just the kind of message he didnt want to send. >> humor can be an effective tool, diffuse a weakness. >> i will not make age an issue of this campaign. i am not going to exploit for political purposes my opponents youth and inexperience. >> and at that moment, a lot of people said well, theres the ball game. including his opponent. >> including walter mondale. >> what do you think abo...

Runs, his picture, and people were advocating they kill the ambassador. all of these things in the six months running up to 9/11 and his ultimate death. it was not just some spontaneous video out there that caused this. there were lots of signs out there and we need this administration to come clean on it. >> thank you so much for taking the time. >> thank you. >> major, what do you think? is mitt romney going to work this into the debate? >> you saw mitt romneys op-ed in the "wall street journa...

Remarks, but that joke got so much attention, sort of suckeded all the oxygen away from all those things and assured him a win. >> looking at history then, michael, final question, what are the chances this could move the needle? >> reagan is the best example. 1980. before that debate, there were about 10% of americans undecided. reagan in that debate looked like a president and also calmed a lot of americans who were with holding support because they were worried reagan would get them into a wa...

Its going to come early in the debate and set the tone for the rest of the debate. i think he needs to take it head on and talk about the economy. the jobs we have not created ore the last four years. take it right to barack obama and try to turn this question into an offensive against barack obamas economy over the last four years. i think thats the best chance hes got. i think he needs to be careful of sometimes with the question everybody nows youre going to get, you kind of practice it and p...

Inconsistencies in what the white house and administration had to say about this. whether they decided it was terrorism. the president was slowing to talk about that. are these kinds of, the kinds of questions you think that will resognate in the campaign possibly in the debate tonight? >> i think the american public has a lot of confidence as i do. in the president and the secretary of state and handling these really volatile and complex issues. i dont think its going to play because i think th...

For the as we just heard major say, sort of responding to the video clip of the day? >> i agree with dan rather and major garrett were saying. the way and the manner in which you do this, you can disagree, but you dont want to be disagreeable. theres a real difference and a fine line there, but clearly, mitt romney is running because the prescription that president obama and joe biden have put forward over the last four years is failing this country and mitt romney will then articulate what he w...