this election is not going to be about osama bin laden. >> it's not about terrorism, not about 9/11 anymore. oh, i've got it. >> this election is about the economy. >> i've forgotten we don't care about this. governor, i want you to look at this so we can actually show the problem area for mr. feehery. a national security official under george w. bush told the "times," this is the core of the republican brand. you mess with it at your peril. it cuts directly to the essence of the brand republicans should be concerned about this. you don't agree, john, right? >> well, listen, what i think is that, mitt romney or whoever the nominee is going to have the foreign policy establishment, the republican foreign policy establishment behind them, and they are going to support each other, and i think that at the end of the day that brand on foreign policy is going to be just fine. >> you know, the other day, governor, herman cain of all people went up to see apparently henry kissinger. doesn't that show you the gap iç what they were and what they are? >> it's enormous. >> and it's a hoot. the idea of

this election is not going to be about osama bin laden. >> it's not about terrorism, not about 9/11 anymore. oh, i've got it. >> this election is about the economy. >> i've forgotten we don't care about this. >> look at this so we can actually show the problem area for john. a national security official under george w. bush told the "times," this is the core of the republican brand. you mess with it at your peril. it cuts directly to the essence of the brand republicans should be concerned about this. you don't agree, john, right? >> well, listen, what i think is that, mitt romney or whoever the nominee is going to have the foreign policy establishment, the republican foreign policy establishment behind them, and they are going to support each other, and i think that at the end of the day that brand on foreign policy is going to be just fine. >> you know, the other day, governor, herman cain of all people went up to see apparently henry kissinger. doesn't that show you the gap in what they were and what they are. >> it's enormous. >> and it's a hoot. the idea of those two people taking up t

this election is not going to be about osama bin laden. >> it's not about terrorism, not about 9/11 anymore. oh, i've got it. >> this election is about the economy. >> i've forgotten we don't care about this. governor, i want you to look at this so we can actually show the problem area for mr. feehery. a national security official under george w. bush told the "times," this is the core of the republican brand. you mess with it at your peril. it cuts directly to the essence of the brand republicans should be concerned about this. you don't agree, john, right? >> well, listen, what i think is that, mitt romney or whoever the nominee is going to have the foreign policy establishment, the republican foreign policy establishment behind them, and they are going to support each other, and i think that at the end of the day that brand on foreign policy is going to be just fine. >> you know, the other day, governor, herman cain of all people went up to see apparently henry kissinger. doesn't that show you the gap in what they were and what they are? >> it's enormous. >> and it's a hoot. the idea of

was he too smart to get osama bin laden? i mean, that's not the issue. if you have a candidate out there, i mean, ron just put it pretty well. if you're a president, you've got to be smart. you've got to have intellectual curiosity, as you talk about often. you've got to be able to absorb information. >> so you don't think there's a reason -- somewhere a kernel of truth in the charge that somewhere the president floats above the people, too elite in his experience -- or that he can think through anything and solve it. >> i think he has a lot of confidence. i think george w. bush had a lot of confidence. and you can argue maybe it didn't work out so well in many ways. >> you go on in here, ron. here's rick perry again criticizing president obama. let's listen. >> he grew up in a privileged way. he never had to really work for anything. and he never had to go through what americans are going -- you know, there's 14 plus million americans sitting out there, some of them watching this program tonight that don't have a job. this president has never felt that

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was he too smart to get osama bin laden? i mean, that's not the issue. if you have a candidate out there, i mean, ron just put it pretty well. if you're a president, you've got to be smart. you've got to have intellectual curiosity, as you talk about often. you've got to be able to absorb information. you may end up with -- >> so you don't think there's a reason -- somewhere a kernel of truth in the charge that somewhere the president floats above the people, too elite in his experience -- not his experience, but his sense that he can think through anything and solve it. >> i think he has a lot of confidence. i think george w. bush had a lot of confidence. and you can argue maybe it didn't work out so well in some ways. >> you go on in here, ron. here's rick perry again criticizing president obama. let's listen. >> he grew up in a privileged way. he never had to really work for anything. and he never had to go through what americans are going -- you know, there's 14 plus million americans sitting out there, some of them watching this program tonight that