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Minority by an average of 77-17. that he was to the left of ted kennedy. you could run a clean, straight choice campaign of big issues, and they would have won by a margin like nixon did mcgovern or you know, reagan, mondale. they couldn't break lose. for some reason, they were committed to trying to take on kerry personally. when you do this, when you run negative ads that are personal, you may break the other guy, but you also break yourself. >> and divide the country. >> you divide the country. >> let me ask you about this campaign. i know you want to go positive, but the nature of this cam...

Privatization. >> that's right. one of the reasons i began drifting towards running was a paper i wrote in the summer of '04, which said that on 53 issues, john kerry was in the minority by an average of 77-17. that he was to the left of ted kennedy. you could run a clean, straight choice campaign of big issues, and they would have won by a margin like nixon did mcgovern or you know, reagan, mondale. they couldn't break lose. they couldn't break loose. for some reason, they were committed to trying to take on kerry personally. when you do this, when you run negative ads that are personal, you ...

You, and they were about you personally, and they were written by somebody who did the ad copy, but they were never signed by anybody. > >> that's right. >> there was no name on it, that said, i paid for this ad, paid for by mitt romney. >> that's right. and i took on mitt romney head-on. those were his staff from the last campaign with his millionaire friends paying for it. those were his ads. he just didn't have the guts to admit it. >> he did come out saying, i could have made it less negative, but i didn't. >> here's my answer. he has grandchildren. he ought to run a campaign worthy of his...

Written by somebody who did the ad copy, but they were never signed by anybody. > >> that's right. >> there was no name on it, that said, i paid for this ad, paid for by mitt romney. >> that's right. and i took on mitt romney head-on. those were his staff from the last campaign with his millionaire friends paying for it. those were his ads. he just didn't have the guts to admit it. >> he did come out saying, i could have made it less negative, but i didn't. >> here's my answer. he has grandchildren. he ought to run a campaign worthy of his grandchildren. he ought to take those ads home and sho...

At arlington national cemetery with full military honors. >> they were sort of pushing for a military funeral. which was not what his wishes were. >> during basic training pat had a premonition if he died he may be used as a public relations stunt. so he smuggle ad copy of his final wishes home to marie. >> i really had to push back on them. they were just sort of preceding as if this were the way things were going to happen. probably thinking that, you know, i was so grief stricken that i wouldn't -- that i would just go along with it. >> this is the first episode in a way before his body is ...