is weioptions. the times quoting an adviser that says for or no. right now it s a wait and see. but he s not06 the only favorite son from florida testing the waters right now. let s just address rig elephant in the room because any time anyone makes a trip to iowa people start speculating about what you re going to d>yo in the future and all that. let me be blunt, i am not now or nor will i ever be a coordinator of iowa. pretty funny guy. here with us new york democratic strategist karen hunter in new york also republican strategist susan. both, of course, msnbc contributors. they have done their shopping got great deals and decided to come in and join us. susan, let s start with jeb bush. he s in the news today. popu popular ex-governor of a very important swing state, obviously. plus there s the belief that he could help them somewhat reconnect with latino voters. this such a tough decision for jeb bush? it s way too early to make
rhetoric don t get this, it s like the inmates in charge of the asylum. what the republican party needs to do is look what happened in the easterly lir 1990s with bth w bill clinton who was able to stand up to the extreme left parts of the democratic base and say we are going to move towards the center. we were going to move toward where the american electorate was. the republican leaders right now do not they have an interest that is different from the american public. they have an interest that s different from the long-term interests of the republican party. they are catering to the extremists inside the house caucus and this is a recipe for turning them into a permanent minority regional party. haley barbour, an ex-governor and former head of the gop spelled out the preferred republican story line on why romney lost on the today show today. here is the first part of that excuse. they decided they re going to have this negative personal campaign to try to convince
i think bill clinton considers himself to be much more of a politician than obama. and i m sure all will be well and we all may hope something dramatic will happen that will trip up the obama people because it would make news, but i wouldn t bet on it. megyn: we may not want to bet on a repeat of his performance in 1998 where people cleared when he said in conclusion. we met after our defeat. he was teaching at kennedy school and i was the youngest ex-governor in american history. [crowd chanting]
multiple aliases. let s listen to him. in chicago a couple of years back they found a woman who was getting checks under 127 different names. on the campaign trail in 1976, reagan vilified the strapping young buck on food stamps. the new york times reported it this way. at an overflow rally in ft. lauderdale he said working people were outraged when they waited on lines in grocery store checkout counters while a strapping young buck ahead of them purchased t-bone steaks with food stamps. the reporter pointed out this specific language was tailored to the southern audience, writing the ex-governor was using the grocery line illustration before. in states like new hampshire never used the expression young buck before, which to whites in the south generally denotes a large black man. when david duke ran for governor of louisiana he too hit on welfare recipients in his
the results of the presidential contest. if obama wins virginia, cain will win. if romney wins virginia, allen will win. the party that carries the presidency in virginia will get a bonus senate seat. jon: in wisconsin you have another ex-governor there potentially running. yes, if tommy thompson, former republican of wisconsin gets republican nomination we think he will be favored over democrat tammy baldwin, and that is even if barack obama manages to carry wisconsin again. if it isn t tommy thompson it will be businessman larry hute. he is an unknown quantity. if obama wins wisconsin, it is possible that the democrat candidate for senate will be carried into office but it is too early to say one way or the other exa lot of interesting developments to come. that s why you watch politics so closely. larry sabato from the university of virginia. thank you, jon. jenna: it traveled nearly 8,000 miles, jon.