you take care of these, you save a bunch of this. that works. tucker: welcome back to hannity. there s still more than 120 days until voters head to the polls. my next guest is highlighting the pivotal moments in the election so far and examining what we can expect as we move closer to november. elections past have proved anything can happen. joining me with a good sense of
sean: what about marco? marco rubio, a pretty good pick for sure. ultimately it comes down to the stump speech. how bad is mitt romney to a degree court this teavangelcal audience? if he can do that, he ll get more teavangelcals to the polls. sean: when you look at issues involved, the contraceptive mandate, including morning-after pill, all of these social issues, and the president s position on defense of marriage act, the president s position recently on immigration, you add the debt to that, the bad economy to that. for any conservative, any tea party member, i just don t see who else they could possibly vote for in this election. yeah. it not so much who they re going
sean: what about marco? marco rubio, a pretty good pick for sure. ultimately it comes down to the stump speech. how bad is mitt romney to a degree court this teavangelcal audience? if he can do that, he ll get more teavangelcals to the polls. sean: when you look at issues involved, the contraceptive mandate, including morning-after pill, all of these social issues, and the president s position on defense of marriage act, the president s position recently on immigration, you add the debt to that, the bad economy to that. for any conservative, any tea party member, i just don t see who else they could possibly vote for in this election. yeah. it not so much who they re going
what might, author of a new e-book entitled election 2012: a time for choosing. tom bivin, welcome back to the show. tucker, good to be with you. tucker: you say the obama campaign is mounting a kitchen sink strategy against romney. what does that entail? the team obama always knew or thought, even from a year ago, that romney was going to be the earlier this spring, as it became more and more clear that romney was going to be the republican nominee they had this discussion about how they want to go about framing the election against romney. the initial frame was he was going to be a flip-flopper, pick on what some of his republican competitors had used against him, that he just doesn t have a core, but there was another argument pro proffered, that mit romney does have a core, but
challenge the republican establishment. the fact is, when ronald reagan came here in 1974 and gave his famous speech on bold colors, that was a decade in from reagan s first great national speech for barry goldwater, a time for choosing. when reagan campaigned in 1980, you could see the gap between the republican establishment and the conservative movement. reagan campaigned on supply-side economics, lower taxes, less regulation, more american energy, praise for people who created jobs, the establishment called it voodoo economics. the gop establishment has a single word they use with contempt for conservative ideas. they say they are unrealistic. so creating 16 million jobs under reagan, unrealistic.