two of president tyler s grandsons are still alive today. by the way that presidency, very important, establishing the authority of the executive branch and the authority of the vice president to ascend to the presidency. for all intents and purposes, it is a two-man race between president obama and mitt romney. we saw it this week as mitt romney started to focus on president obama and the obama campaign started to hit mitt romney daily. let s bring in our political panel. msnbc contributor and political editor for thegrio.com, perry bacon. casey hunt political reporter for the associated press and reid wilson editor and chief of national journal s hot line. hello to you all. the general election started. you re covering a presumptive nominee, casey hunt, on the road and that means you re here in washington about. for a few days. it s easter weekend. fair enough. i want to talk about everything will get highlighted when it comes to potential bipartisanship for the president. i want
he is supposed to be the tea party guy? there is an honest conservative and she is not rick perry. the perry camp today calls this ad patently false. but a day after perry s 1993 love letter to hillary camp resurfaced, comes this news. he proposed a buy national insurance plan with mexico in 2001. that s not exactly proper tea party etiquette. it s clear bachmann s strategy is to pump up the fact she s the real tea partier. joining me now is casey hunt political reporter for the associated press and ab associate editor and columnist for the hill. . a b., is there aéy oxygen left for bachmann? it is rapidly dissipating, that s for sure. governor perry is really big-booted her right after her