"Face the Nation" transcripts, October 21, 2012: Sen. Rubio, Cutter, Madden

The early voting is going on in all these battleground states, it started in North Carolina yesterday and what the president's doing with a message like that is he's speaking to turning out those voters. If he an bank all of those Democrats who get excited, the younger voters who loved that line and pass it along. If he can bank them and they know at the end of the day who has voted early in a lot of these states because the Secretary of State in the state let you know. That then allows them to think about how to play the other states, how to change their message otherwise.

So they are -- both sides are pretty enthusiastic, the president though, is the one who's been working harder because his enthusiasm has been a little bit below the Republicans who are excited about turning out the president and after that Denver debate, excited now about Mitt Romney.

SCHIEFFER: Quickly...

SANGER: Bob, the other thing I want to hear tomorrow night -- Afghanistan. I mean here we are, we've still got 68,000 troops there. You heard Joe Biden say everybody's out by 2014. That isn't the president's plan. The president's plan is keep an enduring force to watch over Afghanistan and Pakistan.

SCHIEFFER: After we pull out our combat forces. Well thank you all so much. We'll be back in a minute with some of the lighter political moments of the week.

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

SCHIEFFER: One of the most pleasant interludes in presidential campaigns is when the candidates go to the Al Smith Charity Dinner in New York as they did Thursday and have a little fun with each other. That's our Face the Nation Flashback.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

ROMNEY: A campaign can require a lot of wardrobe changes. We -- blue jeans in the morning perhaps, suit for a lunch fundraiser, sport coat for dinner, but it's nice to finally relax and were what Ann and I wear around the house.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

OBAMA: I've heard some people say, Barack, you're not as young as you used to be, where's that golden smile? Where's that pep in your step? And I say, settle down Joe, I'm trying to run a cabinet meeting here.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

ROMNEY: I was actually hoping the president would bring Joe Biden along this evening because he'll at anything.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

OBAMA: Some of you guys remember after my foreign trip in 2008 and I was attacked as a celebrity because I was so popular with our allies overseas. And I have to say I'm impressed with how well Governor Romney has avoided that problem.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

ROMNEY: Now people seem to be very curious as to how we prepare for the debates. Let me tell you what I do, first refrain for alcohol for 65 years before the debate.

Second, find the biggest available straw man and then just mercilessly attack it. Big Bird didn't even see it coming.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

OBAMA: And even though we're enjoying ourselves tonight, we're both thinking ahead of our final debate on Monday, I'm hoping that Governor Romney and I will have a chance to answer the question that is on the minds of millions of Americans watching at home. Is this happening again?

(END VIDEO CLIP)

SCHIEFFER: This week's Face the Nation Flashback.

• « Previous Page
• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4
• 5
• 6

[jesbug]

I think Judge Judy should be the moderator of the debates. I have never seen such inability of seasoned professionals to control the setting. I don't see how Mr. Schieffer can handle this situation. There should be a switch to turn off the mic when time is up and a cattle prod held by a fact checker to deliver a jolt when purposefully false statements are made. I am totally shocked by how Former Gov. Romney was not assertive or aggressive but brash, rude and even argued with the moderator. I assume the commercial time purchased on network TV is coming from GOP Super Pac funds now. Karl Rove's super pac American Crossroads and others run commercials during prime viewing periods at a rate of what seems every ten minutes. The President in the first debate granted appeared lackluster but from his expressions thought they would be operating under a set of rules. Former Gov. Romney was set on taking over the floor. The President kept looking in Lehrer's direction as though aren't you going to say it's my time to answer? I have never seen anything like it in my 40+ years of observing politics. The growing hatefulness from the Leaders of Congress, not exaggerated but blatantly FALSE statements in commercials, billboards implying threats to voters more likely not to know election laws, ramrodded employees being forced to attend functions and do campaign work while on the clock in corporations, voter registration forms being thrown away and hateful, untrue ROBO calls. You hear people remark that both parties do these things equally. NOT TRUE ANYMORE, the corporate funded GOP Super Pacs have funded a new world of nasty and underhanded. If you say a false statement over and over and over, it finally becomes the truth. WHAT???? After the election, I would like for some industrious journalist to fact check every statement I just made and come out with statistics because I know I am correct and many other have made similar comments. Problem is, to find an independent one, they would most likely be on PBS and Romney would certainly cut their funding before they could finish. Without election finance reform, campaign spending limits and further controls over super pacs DEMOCRACY IS OVER and what you have is the WORST GOVERNMENT CORPORATE AMERICA CAN BUY. By the brainwashed people but not for the people.

[r3293]

Adding to my last statement, Marco Rubio immediately answered the question referring to Romney as Govenor Romney, ignoring the reference to the President by Schieffer

[r3293]

It seems that the transcript has been cleaned up OR Mr Schieffer justmispoke because once again he called Mr Romney "the President"