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"Special Report" Panel On The Jobs Report

Charles Krauthammer, Kirsten Powers and Steve Hayes discuss. Send to a Friend | Permalink

Posted by RCP Staff | Special Report - Saturday February 4th, 2012 | Send to a Friend

Krauthammer: Trump Endorsement Distracts From Romney's Gaffe

The panel discusses Trump's endorsement. Send to a Friend | Permalink

Krauthammer On "Poor" Comment: Romney Can't Explain Conservative Ideas

"This is bad," syndicated columnist Charles Krauthammer said about Romney's remark that he is not concerned about the poor. "It's not just the day after a big win in Florida. He only spent a whole day on a soundbite that has been taken out of context and it will be. It's not just that it strengthens the stereotype of Romney as the patrician whose only aware of the poor as people who clean the streets and wash his car." "The real problem here is that it shows he doesn't have fluency with conservative ideas. Conservatives are not the one who engage in the war of the classes or division of American classes. Obama, the Democrats will win that kind of argument every day. The moral case for conservative economics is that our policy is going to help everybody, including the poor. Two examples, school choice, which will help those trapped in the inner cities and tyranny of the teachers unions will finally have an education, have the skills to get a job. And you lower the marginal rates and taxes so you encourage economic expansion and creation of jobs," Krauthammer said on Wednesday's "Special Report" panel. "The idea that somehow we can sign the poor to the safety net and we patch it and dependency is a liberal idea. It's not our idea and Romney is a guy who came late to his new ideology and still can't speak it very well," he added. Send to a Friend | Permalink

"Special Report" Online Show On The 2012 Race

Fred Barnes, Rick Klein and Charles Krauthammer discuss viewer emails with host Bret Baier. Send to a Friend | Permalink

Posted by RCP Staff | Special Report - Thursday February 2nd, 2012 | Send to a Friend

Krauthammer: Romney "Didn't Make A Conservative Case"

"Romney, I thought, had some good lines," Charles Krauthammer said about the candidate's Florida victory on FOX News' "Hannity" tonight. "I think he sort of said, 'Look,I'm the winner here. I won in Florida. I'm really going to speak as the guy who doesn't even have to so much acknowledge my internal opposition.' He tried to speak as the guy who was already the nominee. And I think he was effective in the lines he gave." "I thought what was wrong with his speech was his basic argument was, if you're listening to the argument, 'I'm a businessman. I know how to create jobs. Trust me. I know how to start a business. I'll strengthen the American economy.' You know, that's not a terribly strong argument. In the absence -- I mean, he didn't make a conservative case. He didn't have an argument on exactly what he is going to do. Now you're not going to have that happening in a victory speech, but nonetheless I think he's got to give a speech out there somewhere," Krauthammer also said. "If he can give speech like the one that Mitch Daniels had giving on the State of the Union night where he gave the response. Which was as concise and smart and I thought elegant defense of the conservative critique of Obama and the conservative agenda for fixing America. If Romney could memorize that speech, give it everywhere, he'd be President of the United States. But he just hasn't been able to do that. He's basically selling himself," Krauthammer said. "Gingrich, I thought was the one really capable of giving a speech with contours, and giving on a night where he got really whacked, I thought spoke well of him. But he has to, I think, show that he can win between now and March 6th and I'm not sure he's got a place where he can do that," he said. Send to a Friend | Permalink

Brit Hume: Newt Gingrich Is "Desperate"

"I think at the end of this Florida campaign the Gingrich campaign was pretty desperate," Brit Hume said on FOX News tonight. "And I think we've sort of learned in this campaign that Newt Gingrich is vulnerable to attack ads and he was certainly bombarded with them. That he gets rattled at times when he's under attack and it diminishes his effectiveness of his campaigning and we learned that Romney is capable of lifting his game. He lifted his game to attack Gingrich. I think there's questions about Romney's candidacy and his campaign and his positions, but those things we now know for sure." Send to a Friend | Permalink

Gingrich: Conservatives Won't Let Wall St. And Romney "Buy Election"

"Look, the conservative movement is not going to sit by and let a Massachusetts liberal, who's pro-abortion, pro-gun control, pro-tax increase, pro-gay rights, whose Romneycare in two articles in the last 24 hours were described as the equivalent of Obamacare and who George Soros says is just fine. He'd be happy with either Obama or Romney [be]cause they are both the establishment -- that's just George Soros," Newt Gingrich told FOX News' Bret Baier on the campaign trail in Tampa, Florida. "Now, the conservative movement isn't going to sit back and say 'Oh yes, let's let Wall Street, and Goldman Sachs and Mitt Romney buy the election. So you're going to see a real grass roots fight. It will be people power vs. Goldman Sachs and Mitt Romney," he added. Send to a Friend | Permalink

Posted by RCP Staff | Special Report - Tuesday January 31st, 2012 | Send to a Friend

Krauthammer: Gingrich Isn't Bluffing About Going To The Convention

The panel discusses the future of the GOP race. Send to a Friend | Permalink

Posted by RCP Staff | Special Report - Monday January 30th, 2012 | Send to a Friend

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