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The vetting that the press will do and the opposition democrats will do, should in the turn up anything that will take this election off the track of the economy because the bad economy is the winning track for mitt romney. >>eric: larry, i am looking at your bullet points on the potential candidates on the portman and pawlenty, you have safe, and vanilla. is that more important than a rubio where you say a valuable swing state senator, you could nail down a state if you pick this guy. >>guest: you could make that argument for portman. he would add a couple of points at ohio and the critical s...

And he has been proven right. >>eric: monica crowley, what the (bleep) just happened. what happens when the games are over and the venues are empty? and now to london. >>guest: london's legacy corporation says six of the eight venues have been sorted out. in a five double dip recession, no one wants a lot white elephants laying around, so a lot of thought was put into the future of the venues from the very beginning. here is the scoop. >> london's olympic sites have cost more than $1.5 billion to build from the sleek center designed by world renown architect to the iconic tower. >> which do i ...

Week." four pictures, he is smiling in all of them, nice photographs, with great color, and he looks good. you look at mitt romney with the big letters, "wimp." what is going on? >>guest: at this point in 2008 they have done eight coughs on president obama. they all could have looked like press releases, just the laudatory pieces about obama. that is perfectly fine if you going the same thing for the republicans. instead for the republicans you get "wimp factor." that is what i mean by newsweek having no semblance of fairness. i don't know we don'tists have them in the office. they need to go ...

People, that is not necessarily bad. >>eric: romney did not want to make an issue of it. listen to the response. >> if i worried about the media said i would not be able to sleep. and i am able to sleep. >>eric: you have to like that response. >>guest: the back of his hand dismissal of them which is a good thing for a candidate to do. >>eric: instead, he will stray -- stay on his message. that is, the economy is not working so maybe a little hope and change for real. >>guest: if i advised romney i would say when you are attacked, remind the public who is attacking you. when you see one of the ...

They can expand the markets but the latest mergers are a contraction of the economy. nobody sees great investment opportunities right now. >>eric: you are 100 percent right, buying back your own stock is not necessarily bad but the reason the c.e.o.'s are doing that could be concerning. people did not want to hire new people because of what? >>guest: obamacare is a problem, and the big tax cliff, and the big data, whether we will do anything about dealing with that. but the ultimate sign of risk aversion in this market right now, what is it, 1.4 percent own a 10-year treasury bond. people are ...