all these guys, bachmann, would they be birthers? do they believe there was some incredibly complicated conspiracy that got this guy into the country secretly, made him an american look-alike but not really one? do they really believe conspiracy or are they conspiracy or are they pandering to the yahoos in. chris, this is the first question i have to say, i don t know. you don t know whether they re for real or not. i just don t know. would you like to see my circumcision certificate? i have it. i have it here. i just think the whole thing is based upon a crazed kind of conspiracy that people were willing to believe the worst about this guy. let me get back to steve gallardo, the state senator. when you talk to your colleagues on the floor, they come up to you, you guys probably socialize a bit. do they say they believe obama is an impostor, that he somehow his parents are somebody had him born over in kenya so
responsible to some extent, they care about issues, they pay attention. the people on the right, they have completely got round heels for this guy. what is going on? you can mock their lack of knowledge, but you know what we ve just been showing you and we ll keep showing it, they seem to like him. what s going on here, chris? i think it is a function of media attention. he s a master showman. you ve got to give him credit. you keep asking like it s a carney act. you are mocking your own people. you re saying the conservatives are a bunch of imbeciles, rubes and he s p.t. barnum just doing card tricks. i don t think you can reach any conclusion on polls this far out. i think it is a show at this point and that is clearly what we are trying to get beyond, is the showmanship. so, i don t think you can make any conclusions at this point as to what people are thinking, what their opinions will be and what the outcome of the election will be after the primary. okay. well, we watch p
he was the pizzazz candidate. he was more exciting than hillary clinton. usually, not always, the most boring guy doesn t always win. us three guys could talk all night about this, next to the cracker barrel, i mean it. chris, howard, i like you both. up next, arizona governor jan brewer vetoes the birther bill. what do you know, she can do it. the one that requires anyone running to produce baptism or circumcision documents. she s finally said enough, no mas, although she doesn t exactly speak spanish. anyway, maybe she s helping out the republicans by taking out the trash. this is hardball, only on msnbc. [ male announcer ] a moment that starts off ordinary can become romantic just like that. a spark might come from a touch, a glance it can come along anywhere, anytime. and when it does, men with erectile dysfunction can be more confident in their ability to be ready with cialis for daily use. cialis for daily use is a clinically proven low-dose tablet you take every day,
because all the other candidates in recent history released their full tax returns. it sounds like he s probably not going to do it. but really what s most important in that clip, chris, is that he takes another opportunity to drag american politics down into the sewer of birtherism. and that, to me, is the most disgusting and preposterous aspect of his candidacy so far. and this is also, when we re talking about flip-flops, he praised obama as amazing in his last book. he was all for the obama phenomenon. and now he s turned around and said he shouldn t even he s not even eligible to be president. he s hoaxing us, he s hiding his birth certificate. and this is really, really the lowest place you can go in american politics today. we can debate taxes, we can debate spending, but to assault the president s reputation in this particular way by someone who has to know better, i say that, i m probably optimistic, i believe he knows better. it s despicable. chris, i m just telling you
but the palins, the bachmans and i would say even the trumps, et cetera, are not the ones that are going to make it. let me also say, chris, that another number in the polls show that the president s favorable-on-favorable ratio is down to a plus-seven. he lost almost ten points in one week nm that s the closest favorable/unfavorable that he s had since he s become president. that s got to be a concern to them, it really does. these numbers are getting tricky. chris, you re a numbers guy as well. i m just trying to figure here, romney, i don t i think he is, like they said of mondale years ago, cuomo called him polenta, a boring italian food. i m serious. i think the whole excitement about mr. trump, and i know it could be quicksilver, i don t know, but it seems to be really a statement of these other guys bore them out of their trees. and they can t stand the idea of what they re facing running up against an exciting candidate like obama, who is quick on his feet, who s very good