This Week with George Stephanopoulos - October 14, 2012

Guests:
Sen. Rob Portman (R-OH)
Atty. Gen. Beau Biden (D-DE)
Chris Dodd
Newt Gingrich
Richard Norton Smith
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Tapper: OMG the election is almost over

Audience: woot

Tapper: OMG Morgan Freeman says you
should vote for Romney and he’s the voice of God

Freeman: andthe first pretend black President

Tapper: good morning Governor Portman

Portman: hi Jake

Tapper: you are playing Obama in
the mock debates

Portman: I expect Obama who is terrible
by the way to be very negative

Tapper: why did Paul Ryan lie about
unemployment in the debate

Portman: unemployment is going up

Tapper: no it isn’t it’s dropping

Portman: not in my beautiful mind

Tapper: should you be politicizing an
Ambassador’s death?

Portman: Obama didn’t have enough
security at the embassy!

Tapper: Romney is sending jobs to
China while bashing China

Portman: President Obama personally
invests in China

Tapper: do you have any evidence for that

Portman: of course I don’t

Tapper: what is the problem with China

Portman: Obama will not sign enough
free trade agreements also he is not
tough enough with China

Tapper: Obama is leading in your home state

Portman: according to the polls the race is
about dead even in Ohio

Tapper: no it isn’t

Portman: maybe something is going
on on the ground in Ohio

Tapper: Thanks for coming Rob


Portman: thanks Tappy

Tapper: Beau many are saying your
father laughed and rolled his eyes too much

Biden: ha ha ha  [ rolls eyes ]

Tapper: was his body language too much

Biden: did you see how much water
that nervous nellie Paul Ryan drank
- what a freak!

Tapper: don’t change the subject

Biden: did you hear Paul Ryan suggest
we should put more troops in Afghanistan
- what a loon

Tapper: I think he was making a
seasonal strategic point

Biden: he’s an uninformed idiot

Tapper: your dad said the White House
had no idea Libya was a dangerous place

Biden: Obama is going to kill these terrorists
and Ryan cut the embassy security budget

Tapper: zing

[ break ]

Tapper: we wanted to bring you an All-Star
panel but instead here is Newt Gingrich
and Chris Dodd who lost to Romney
and Obama respectively

Tapper: also audience please clap for
badass moderator Martha Raddatz

Audience: yaaaay

Tapper: Dick Nixon never got over his
flop-sweat fest against JFK

Nixon: goddamm fucking pores

Will: the key to winning debates is to steal
material from the opponent like I did to Jimmy Carter

Tapper: good point

Brazile: debates matter because some voters
are seeing the candidates for the first time

Gingrich: Romney can be very aggressive
and he shocked me because I
can be a real jerk

Dodd: by the time you only have two
candidates it’s about character, emotion
and whether you are ready for the most
important job in the world

Tapper: judging Dancing With The Stars?

Tapper: Nixon would have perspired even
on his on Facebook page

Richard Norton Smith: in 1960 we didn’t have
the media and Twitter to tell us what to think

Tapper: thank god we’ve solved that problem

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