47% called themselves moderate or liberal. just 21% said they were, quote, very conservative. folks that s not what south carolina s going to look like. and teeing up his south carolina argument. romney tried to look like a tough nominee with an attack on obama. this president has enacted job killing legislations, i ll elet eliminate them. tonight we re asking the good people of north carolina to make 2012 the year he runs out of time. and he took on republicans who have leveled populist attacks at his business record at bain capital. president obama wants to put free enterprise on trial and in the last few days we have seen desperate republicans join forces with him. this is such a mistake for our party. i stand ready to lead us down a different path, where we re
conservative these say economic issues are dominant. they want somebody who can deal with that somebody who has vision who they think has leadership. you go down through the list and in almost every case, they have got a problem with somebody. they are not wild about anybody, but what was most striking was when we got to sarah palinful they really like sarah palin. they think the world of sarah palin. they think she has done great things for the republican party. they do not think she is ready to be president and this came through, even to the point that there were two women in the group, very conservative, who both said i would vote for had hillary clinton before i would vote for sarah palin. now what they meant was they don t agree with secretary clinton but they think she has the depth of experience, et cetera, and they don t see that in palin right now and it make them unhappy this a way but a very strong judgment. in the 20 seconds or so that we have, do you think the fact that
look at both 2009 and 2010. house democrats felt like the white house took them for granted. they ignored their priorities. that the house did all the hard things, cap and trade, health care, economic stimulus, and it wound up kind of you know, the fight wound up happening in the senate, that the president doesn t ultimately care about the house. so i think some of this is about that. about, you know what, you took us for granted for so long, you re not going to take us for granted anymore. the pragmatist in me can t imagine that ultimately nancy pelosi is going to say, we are going to submarine this deal. i think what you re more likely to see, savannah, is some concessions, some change made to the bill and it ultimately passes through. i can t imagine the white house letting this wither on the vine. before i let you guys go, i promised poker. in a daily beast article today, some of his former poker buddies back in illinois talk about him as a very cautious player, very conservati
you may want somebody with some racing stripes. somebody who looks exciting out there. what about jeb bush coming back in, seizing the opportunity, mounting the galloping horse of history here, and running against barack obama next time? well, sure, i think you ve heard, chris, in the last couple days this sort of groundswell of interest in indiana governor mitch daniels, who sort of fits a similar profile to one you re talking about with jeb bush, very conservative, very policy-oriented, sort of a friendly happy face. but bush would be just a rock star in a way that daniels would not. so if he thank you. so why did you bring up mitch daniels? it s boring me already. it s boring me. the very name mitch daniels sounds boring. we ll be right back with alex burns i m sorry. alex burns sounds fine to me. perry bacon. mitch daniels. give me a break. you have to sell him just to listen to him. listen to his name. you re watching hardball, only on msnbc. drink 20% more of it. crys