ABC, George S in front of a live audience, replays debate highlights (at least in George’s mind).
Now we get to hear what Axelrod thinks of these debates. Axelrod says 4 million people have obama to thank for their jobs (auto industry).
George asks Axel about unemployment no’s; Axel says it’s going in the right direction. Axelrod says Romney can’t back up the 100,000 jobs created with the Bain deal.
Axelrod says conservatives don’t trust Romney, he shifts around on positions, Bain mentality is not what’s needed in this economy.
George S on ABC replays Perry comments about the Defense budget. Axelrod says Perry has problems with numbers, gets laughter from the audience. Says obama’s defense street cred (paraphrased) can’t be questioned since he took out Bin Laden, blah, blah, blah. Robert Gates said the decision to take out Bin Laden was the most courageous thing he’s seen a president ever do. (allrighty!)
George asks abouty Jodi Kantor’s book, “the obamas”, and Michelle’s influence in the White House. Swats away any criticism of Michelle......things taken out of context.
Now switching to Huckabee - compares debate last night to Nascar race. surprised there wasn’t a pile up with Romney in the middle of the pile up. (rolling eyes)
Huckabee thinks Romney could run the tables in these first primaries. Last night was critical for the rest of the pack to go after Romney. They didn’t do it.
Obama did not bail out the entire auto industry; just 2 companies which should have gone through bankruptcy to clean their fiscal house and start over. This was a continued step on a bad trend started by Lee Iococca to avoid the unpleasant results of failure.