
If he wants to attack Mitt Romney in October, I think he would have been in higher ground. Using the anniversary of killing bin Laden was a terrible mistake.
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If he wants to attack Mitt Romney in October, I think he would have been in higher ground. Using the anniversary of killing bin Laden was a terrible mistake.

President Obama was able to get the actionable intelligence that none of his predecessors had. He get the credit for it. It happened under his watch.

When he ran in 2008 as the post-partisan as someone who would bring us together. What did he sell us to be look good? There is nothing post-partisan about him.

The notion that Romney now already saying anybody would have done it is simply not burned out by the stated positions of governor Romney and frankly, the lack of actions by President Bush.

Using the anniversary of the killing of bin Laden is a terrible mistake President Obama has made, showing there really is nothing post-partisan about him.

He gets the credit for it. It happened under his watch. He made that decision. And I'm proud of President Obama.

When he ran in 2008 as the post-partisan, as someone who would bring us together, boy, did he sell us a bill of goods. There is nothing post-partisan about him.

If that's all it is, I would be praising President Obama and saying this is absolutely part of what presidents run on and should do.

What does flexibility mean? If he is going to abandon missile defense, he should have that out now, explain it to the country, not wait until after the election.

The president shouldn't criticize people for achievement, we should congratulate people for achievement in this country.

The Obama a presidency for three years has taken its toll on President Obama's rating with the American people, with independents.

They are both weak. Mitt Romney is emerging from this primary, weaker than a lot of Republicans would have liked him to be. But so, too, is president Obama.

You know, from the very beginning Mitt Romney has had a conservative problem. Here at the end of the Republican primary continues to have a conservative problem yet he won, he won a Republican primary.

He hasn't done anything to get over that in the course of his presidency. With unemployment so high, he's actually made it worse.

I think we're heading for an election where both candidates, President Obama and Mitt Romney, have a lot of problems with a lot of sectors of the electorate. They are both weak.

From the very beginning Mitt Romney has had a conservative problem. Here at the end of the Republican primary he continues to have a conservative problem, yet he won -- he won a Republican primary.

You know you can disagree and still love this country and not be a radical. That's what is so divisive about the language that President Obama and his pollster are now using.

He is weaker and he's running against a weaker president.

You can disagree and still love this country and not be a radical. That is what is so divisive about the language that President Obama and his pollster are now using.

I think this one of the worst displays I have ever seen of a president on foreign soil or domestic. What He's essentially saying is give me space because I have to act one way before the election and then after the election I have the…

I think whatever shortcomings conservatives feel about Romney, and they feel many, they are going to unite so strongly against Barack Obama.

I think they're starting to coalesce. We have actually seen that pattern on a kind of skipping status throughout the primary race.

If Rick Santorum can't address that, his day will come and it's not here yet. But he's going to have to face that too.