Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20120825:02:07:00
Attack was backfiring, kennedy campaign adviser bob shrum picks up the phone and calls the senator. >> i said we've got to get out of this immediately. immediately. we don't want anything to do with this. >> to try and win the election, romney and his campaign position their candidate as a moderate. a logical tactic, since massachusetts is a liberal and strongly democratic state. one adviser romney seeks out is rich taffle, head of the log cabin republicans which advocates for gay rights. his advice is simple. >> for you to win gay support, you'll have to be better than ted kennedy to win that...