This Week with George Stephanopoulos - September 30, 2012

Guests:
Gov. Chris Christie (R-NJ)
David Plouffe (Obama 2012)
Haley Barbour
Howard Dean
Donna Brazile
Matthew Dowd
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Stephanopoulos: wow the election is
37 days away!

Audience: thank fucking god

Stephanopoulos: Romney has to win
the debates or he’s toast

Christie: I like toast

Stephanopoulos: who doesn’t

Christie: Romney will kick ass
in the debates!

Stephanopoulos: how

Christie: tell the truth about how
Obama is a bad President

Stephanopoulos: what else

Christie: tell the people the sky
will rain lollipops under Romney

Stephanopoulos: is Obama a good
debater or is he rusty

Christie: no he’s had to debate
Joe Biden for 4 years - he’s very experienced

Stephanopoulos: interesting point

Christie: Obama is lying when says
Obama will cut taxes for the rich

Stephanopoulos: but Romney has
proposed tax cuts for the rich cuts

Christie: but Romney will make up
the difference by closing loopholes

Stephanopoulos: which loopholes

Christie: it’s a secret

Stephanopoulos: that’s not much a plan

Christie: listen to me - Obama is a bad man

Stephanopoulos: how is that is an answer

Christie: the rich will not pay less
- pinkie swear!

Stephanopoulos: Romney has proposed
tax cuts for the rich over and over again

Christie: good!

Stephanopoulos: I’m confused

Christie: Romney has a very clear vision

Stephanopoulos: without any specifics

Christie: shut up!

Stephanopoulos: what else

Christie: the President has never learned
to work with other people unlike loveable
politicians like Mitt Romney and me

Stephanopoulos: Charles Krauthammer
says Romney needs to be big and bold

Christie: oh you’re gonna see it in the debates

Stephanopoulos: I can’t wait

Christie: Romney Unfiltered!

Stephanopoulos: are the polls skewed
against Romney

Christie: no that’s bullshit only an idiot
like Dick Morris would peddle

Stephanopoulos: do you think Todd Aiken
should have the support of the Republican party

Christie: no - he’s a fucking moron

Stephanopoulos: what will happen in the debates?

Plouffe: Obama will explain again that
Republicans caused the recession

Stephanopoulos: Romney says that
Obama is lying when he says Romney
will cut taxes for the rich

Plouffe: he’s already proposed $8 trillion
in tax cuts for pete’s sake

Stephanopoulos: ooh

Plouffe: he’s either going to slash spending
or hit the middle class or both

Stephanopoulos: Mitt Romney told me
that the President is a liar

Plouffe: that’s rich coming that guy

Stephanopoulos: fair point

Plouffe: look Mitt Romney is a
rich out-of-touch weirdo

Stephanopoulos: this is a tough fight

Plouffe: politics ain’t beanbag Stephy

Stephanopoulos: Romney is preparing killer zingers

Plouffe: the American people aren’t
looking for clever conversation - they
like Obama just the way he is

Stephanopoulos: was the attack on
the Libya embassy spontaneous
or a planned attack

Plouffe: it’s an ongoing investigation

Stephanopoulos: but why wait a few
hours before issuing final statements
on an attack overseas

Plouffe: why indeed

Stephanopoulos: people love a good terror attack

Plouffe: Romney called ending the
Iraq war a tragedy and wouldn’t have
gone after bin Laden

Stephanopoulos: Romney says you are
afraid Americans will find out people
in the Middle East don’t love America

Plouffe: yes I’m sure that will come as a great shock

[ break ]

Stephanopoulos: Mitt Romney - what went wrong?

Dowd: simple - they let Obama define
Romney early and they never caught up

Stephanopoulos: also Romney said
he hates 47% of the country

Barbour: Obama is a faaahlyuurrh

Stephanopoulos: oh my

Brazile: I am so loving this!

Dean: of course he’s losing - Obama
turned things around and Mitt Romney
wants to go back the policies that caused
the recession in the first place!

Stephanopoulos: uh-huh

Dean: also Romney is a soulless uncaring plutocrat

Barbour: Obama is uh mooovuuh staaaahhr

Dowd: Romney can still turn this around!

Stephanopoulos: you really think he can still win?

Dowd: oh no I just think with effort
and luck he can lose by less

Brazile: Paul Ryan was going to turn
things around, then it was the Convention
and now it’s the debates - face it - your guy sucks


Stephanopoulos: and that wraps it up

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