i understand you asked the speaker about his remarks when he said the country will not fall in love with mitt romney. let s take a look at his answer cht. the point i was trying to make is simply this. the election this november is going to be a referendum on the president s failed economic policies. i m going to be enthusiastic about voting for governor romney in november. luke, can you recall a speaker of the house ever offering a weaker endorsement? well, look at it, john boehner has pretty much kept his mouth shut the entire time, but if you talk to aides behind the scenes from all sorts of republicans here, is there a lot of rank and file you know, shout at the top of the mountain support for mitt romney on capitol hill? no. but will they come and put their resources toward mitt romney?
in the past, very bad things about the recovery act, about stimulus spending. saying give me the money. by the way, i built this road and this and that. so, i think a lot of the positioning now is going to look even more shallow than a couple of years than it does right now and these are people very comfortable campaigning against something, but secretly taking the the money and trying the take credit for it. the problem with this is unlike the stimulus where you could sort of publicly say no, i don t want this one particular part of it, but i ll take all that other stuff. this is very cut and dry. do you do it or not? there s a difference between i agree with you in a general election, i think it will be very damaging to republican politicians who say no to the money. in a republican primary, i think it s a very different story and in a way, a broader narrative about how far and how far republicans have been pulled by their own party that makes it harder for them to win in
on say regulation of the oil industry and have the oil industry that can come into any number of district and say if you vote against me, i ll run $2 million of negative ads against you, because of this lack of accountability in this citizens united era is just astounding. it s not just about getting people to vote your way in return for a campaign donation. lot of times, it s scaring the hell out of people so you don t become a target of this money. a lot of people in swing states and tough districts don t want to become targets and they know what will make them a target. saying it like it is. thank you, gentlemen. next, speaker boehner. man of action. why, why, why? you know, why? [ male announcer ] this is rudy.
probably. a gop aide said you ve got to go to the dance with the one that brought you and they re going to dance all the way with mitt romney and we ll see how far that goes cht it. it s not like the enthusiasm for george w. bush. stay with us. the day s top lines are coming up.
bit? i think so, but i m not particularly hopeful because i think the republicans are going to make this a litmus issue. they spent so much time demagoguing quote unquote that i think this will become a new issue and anyone who wants to survive a republican primary is in a position to and to be able to do it, is going to pay the price in a republican primary. on the basis he doesn t want to support planned parenthood. the predicament of women in need of basic health care is going to worsen and worsen in that state. that s about right because women rely disportion atly on medicaid. we re talking about 2 million texans