toward this? i think mitt romney said, i will not be a bomb thrower but i think some part of the gop base wants a bomb thrower. they want a fire-starter. someone they feel will be a, quote, unquote, fighter. newt gingrich is good at speaking. he s more forceful than mitt romney who comes across as wooden and out of touch and very awkward. for that reason, i think he s rising in the polls. well, i think also when you deal with the fact that both of these guys, though, don t know what the average life is and you have people that have money that understand what average people go through because they, as you say, from the roosevelts to the kennedys, they had that kind of common touch and could identify. but these guys clearly don t when you consider stand up on the stage without even thinking and make a $10,000 wager. i guess if you were looking at what $10,000 buys at tiffany s, it buys a pair of earrings or
sorry. it is an interesting question and i guess it would be maybe a good time to pivot to talk about the joe biden and obama s problem connecting with non-college educated white voters. it means that he will have a lot of work to do and biden? why not? he has got those roots. he is very good at the coffee table conversation. he is very relatable. he has got the common touch. in addition, you have got watch out if you are the white house because he is, as many people warn, gaffe prone. it may be that that is what maybes watching him so fun. i want to know who thinks he is the secret weapon. he is the gift that keeps on giving. sends hum out off his leash. probably mildly controversial. like the entire republican
no dressers, no ladies in waiting. they re trying to put forward these are austere sometimes in the country and they re trying to scale back from the extravagance of the wedding and saying they have a common touch. i think when snooki was here at msnbc she had a bigger ent r entourage. coming up, nato unfire as the libyain government accuses the alliance of bombing a residential neighborhood. a case of identity fraud at 30,000 feet. unbelievable story of who was working as a flight attendant. and may be june but it done mean the snow s gone everywhere. where right stuff can still be found, coming up. i will send this to shelley. yeah. and i can have a proposal to you within half an hour. we re a small business. with 27 of us always in the field, we have to stay connected. we use verizon tablets, smartphones. we re more responsive. there are no delays. delays cost money.
decade, now will and kate are on the verge of making their first official visit to the u.s. as husband and wife. nbc s ron allen joins us from london. of course, they re going to california, los angeles is a place that s used to celebrities, but this is a whole thing all different all together. they re excited out there, ron. yeah, well, this is royal celebrity, so it takes it to another level. before they get to the west coast, however, they are going to spend time in canada, one of the countries they will become king and queen of at some point in their lives. pals is saying this is all about business and trade, but the buds will be about the new princess and her first appearance on the american stage. since their travel gan fairytale wedding day, the duke and duchess have been trying to show a more common touch. royal watchers saying that she s worn some outfits twice.
but his sense of humor, and he used that to his advantage when people questioned his intelligence, questioned his seriousness. we almost always turned it on them. robert louis stevenson has an essay about the world s great men, and he says you notice about the world s really great men a certain geniality, a certain easiness of person. the second-raters have to try to impress you but the first-raters don t have to. he was comfortable in his own skin. he had that common touch, but he knew what he wanted. there were two things he wanted. he wanted to take down the evil empire, the soviet union, communism. he said we will beat them. we will take them down. and he wanted to restore america to a sense of itself. i would say he was pre-eminent first and foremost in that task of taking down the communist empire. okay. and, yes, gorbachev s a guy you could work with, but don t forget his partner is margaret thatcher and pope john paul, fabulous and interesting