spend. so i don t want to be debating with someone who thinks we need to grow government. well, why ron paul? i mean, i get it. you want sound fiscal policy. you want smaller government but aren t there conservative choices that don t think that israel maybe doesn t shouldn t be protected with some military help and some of the other crazy ideas he has. the unaccountable and out of control federal reserve, individual liberty, the constitutional limited government, those are the concepts that ron paul is bringing forward and all of our country needs to listen to that because those are the things that made this country so great. well, next stop for the political presidential nominee or rather, candidates is south carolina. it s always been an exciting politics wise down there. bare knuckles, no doubt about it. how do you feel about newt gingrich s approach to hitting mitt romney on his days at bain? well, i think it s not wise for any of the republicans to damage each other at
conservative. bret: the strategist for a number of campaigns, including john mccain said of you he is charming, congenial, polite, statesman like. the problem may be he is too darn nice for presidential politics. we are sitting on a basketball court. can you throw elbows? you have to. in the modern political world, i d describe it as a full contact sport. you have to be willing to mix it up. i have been in a couple of bare knuckles campaign. bret: what is the pressing foreign issue? iran is a huge threat. potential threat to the mast and country like our great ally israel and the united states. as much as i look at the external threat that america faces and there are many, the biggest threat to me in the near term is this massive debt that we have. bret: you voted for tarp. do you regret that vote? i regret how it was used.
conservative. bret: the strategist for a number of campaigns, including john mccain said of you he is charming, congenial, polite, statesman like. the problem may be he is too darn nice for presidential politics. we are sitting on a basketball court. can you throw elbows? you have to. in the modern political world, i d describe it as a full contact sport. you have to be willing to mix it up. i have been in a couple of bare knuckles campaign. bret: what is the pressing foreign issue? iran is a huge threat. potential threat to the mast and country like our great ally israel and the united states. as much as i look at the external threat that america faces and there are many, the biggest threat to me in the near term is this massive debt that we have. bret: you voted for tarp. do you regret that vote? i regret how it was used.
reform, and it was fitting on the last day of the job, the president was meeting again with congressional leaders there at the white house and some of the grueling fights really could be practice for what is a brutal battle here for mayor. not everyone in washington has liked rahm emanuel s combative style, but voters here say it may be perfect for the bare knuckles world of politics in chicago. if you want to be mayor of the city, you have to be nice and not so nice, so he will be perfect. reporter: now, rahm emanuel wants this perch, so he decided to come to farmer s market across the street to get a flavor of what people think. we have a lot of people who think that rahm is too much of a washington insider, but a lot of people believe he brings clout to the job, and his style is brash, but he will bring a lot to the table. reporter: what do you think
the president. it s been gloves off, bare knuckles, chicago politics as they call it to now especially on the issue of bain, which they fought soreserve as an issue when all the top democrats came out and said don t go there, don t rip on enterprise and capitalism and so on, and now now what explains the shift away from that? i think you re right. i think in some ways i actually think this is a have ad, i think it s a reflection of a fundamental failure of the barack obam obama campaign that they are coming to this realization so late. if it s a referendum on his own job performance obama is in real trouble. instead they ve turned him into this incredibly strident almost occupy wall street angry guy which turns off independents and the undecides that they need. they thought it was going to work in terms of demon icing