Fox News host: ‘Bayonets’ zinger means Obama has ‘gone native’

During a segment on Fox News the following day, conservative strategist Michael Reagan told Kelly that the “horses and bayonets” line may have been too harsh for undecided voters.

“It showed Barack Obama, who he is: very condescending,” the son of the former president explained. “You begin to see why he’s accomplishing nothing in Washington, D.C., where my father was accomplishing everything in Washington, D.C. because when he spoke to you, he spoke with you. He did not speak down to you.”

“Last night, no respect from the president of the United States towards Mitt Romney, a lot of presidential respect — as if he were already the president — from Mitt Romney to, in fact, the other,” Reagan added.

“That’s an interesting point, that it speaks to an ability to be bipartisan,” Kelly agreed. “And whether the president has that, and whether he’s been in Washington maybe too long, maybe it’s gotten to him and he’s sort of gone native because the guy who was going to be hope and change got to Washington, and now he sounds a lot like the people he said he was going to change.”