nonpartisan sense. when you talk to voters, it seems to me they understand the rules get changed in baseball. you don t have enough home runs so you widen the strike zone narrow the strike zone. they do that in baseball, but it s always jiggered for a purpose. people say why are you doing that? why are you changing the strike zone? we want the game to be more exciting. in this case you want the republicans to win. it just seems like that. it is. the difference is, you know, we re talking about baseball versus the failure of the republican party to be able to field an adequate candidate. at the end of the day they have the hard way, which is to reinvent themselves into a fashion that is more consistent and more in line with what pennsylvania voters are looking for. it s a moderate state. you know that. it s a purple. if bill scranton were running or tom ridge, they wouldn t have to play games. find a bill scranton, find a tom ridge, find a john heinz. those folks couldn t get ou
i want to go back to jim about fair play here in a nonpartisan sense. when you talk to voters, it seems to me they understand the rules get changed in baseball. you don t have enough home runs so you widen the strike zone narrow the strike zone. they do that in baseball, but it s always jiggered for a purpose. people say why are you doing that? why are you changing the strike zone? we want the game to be more exciting. in this case you want the republicans to win. it just seems like that. it is. the difference is, you know, we re talking about baseball versus the failure of the republican party to be able to field an adequate candidate. at the end of the day they have the hard way, which is to reinvent themselves into a fashion that is more consistent and more in line with what pennsylvania voters are looking for. it s a moderate state. you know that. it s a purple. if bill scranton were running or tom ridge, they wouldn t have to play games. find a bill scranton, find a tom
about 2012. this is a long-term plan to make sure that it s harder for americans to participate in our democracy. i want to go back to jim about fair play here in a mon partisan sense. when you talk to voters it seems to me they understand the rules get changed in baseball. you don t have enough home runs could you siden the strike zone narrow the strike zone. they do that in baseball but it s always jiggered for a purpose. people say why are you doing that? why are you changing the strike zone? we want the game to be more exciti exciting. in this case you want the republicans to win. it just seems like that. it is. the difference is, you know, we re talking about baseball versus the failure of the republican party to be able to field an adequate candidate. at the end of the day they have the hard way, which is to reinvent themselves into a fashion that is more consistent and more in line with what pennsylvania voters are looking for, it s a moderate state. you know that. it s
find a bill scranton, find a tom ridge, find a john hines. those folks couldn t get out of a republican primary like now. if they counseled a candidate like that, they would appeal to pennsylvanians. these the argument, look at pennsylvania, look at michigan. these are the type of states that justify, justify the need for act five of the voting rights. do you think you would grow old to believe eisenhower republicanism looked pretty good? who would have believed it. thanks jim. judith, it s always good to have your expertise. up next, if presidential elections are a mood ring for the country, oscar night is a close second. what did we learn last night at the oscars? this is hardball, the place for politics. property, while keeping out threats to your operations? it s not working! yes it is. welcome to tyco integrated security. with world-class monitoring centers
ronald reagan understood that. if that s who we republicans want to claim as our hero, let s take a closer look at the record of reagan. on taxes, on budgets, i would say on assault weapons especially right now for a republican party that seems to be veering, i think, dangerously close to territory post-newtown, that could cost them a lot of swing seats. we have got to learn what buckley always told us to do. look at the realities in front of us. and deal with those realities in our politics. we re sort of dop l gangers you and i. i have a jealous interest in this. i want to see two parties i can choose from. i don t think i ve got them right now. but i grew up in a state of pennsylvania where we had people like bill scranton and tom ridge i could have voted for. they were pragmatists. they may not have been in bed