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Cuts if it increases the deficit. and in massachusetts, i worked with liberals. every morning we got together and we got things done. it's like -- it's not the sort of warfare that many in my party and in the democratic party have glorified over the past 10, 15 years. i thought mitt came temperamentally at least to the middle, and it seems like he's -- i think ross is right. he's the new leader of the republican party. >> he demonstrated leadership on the ticket, not only is his name first on the ticket, but when asked about paul ryan's plan, he indicated that i'm the leader on this ticket, an...

Did. >> you said your job was to stay out of the way. >> absolutely right. and that's the wean that people were a little disconcerted, some of the tweeters, the twitterers and the wawas because they expected an old-fashioned debate. two-minute canned answers and one-minute responses. this was not that. >> he had gotten in and tried to influence one side or the other and cut off questions, you'd have been equally criticized. i think you did a fantastic job. you allowed america to see these two candidates to go head to head and confront each other, try to correct one another and then lay out the...

Personal assault on someone's ethical bearing, professional bearing or whatever, put your name on it. >> the amazing -- >> anonymous. >> the amazing thing is a week and a half ago republicans were calling me, you know, prostitute and this and that and the other because they were angry because we were tough on romney. romney had a good debate. and this past week, i have been called a racist and a bigot. it happens to all of us. >> i'll give you a list of everything i've been called in the last couple of days. >> right, exactly. so the bottom line is, they're saying that the president couldn't t...

If i'm the republican presidential candidate and not the president. i just think that could be very dicey. i wish you the best of luck. >> because really, dan, if you look back and see how the democrats showed great restraint in 2004 and they never attacked george w. bush's foreign policy, perhaps if you could just follow -- if you could have just followed their great example in 2004. >> let's talk about 2012. look at the democrats' convention. how many primetime addresses were dedicated to them celebrating how successful their foreign policy is? they certainly have the right to do that. we're...

>> yeah, well, he could have done it at the convention and no one would have noticed given the empty chair. we've talked about that. yeah, i mean, romney's perhaps biggest problem is cosmetics. i mean, he has been pretending to be someone he's not, pretty much for the last 18 months. what we saw in the debate, that's who he is. the question that i would like an answer to, i would love an answer to this is to find out from governor romney how surprised he was that there was no pushback from the president. i bet you just on an athletic level, having played games as a kid, he was probably stunned...