one of the things they are fighting over is the past, they are fighting over the election and how many of nine senate races they think they could have won. i think there s a lot of general agreement, even between rove and gingrich that todd akin and richard murdoch may not have been the best candidates. gingrich said it wasn t a candidate problem that they weren t extreme republicans, something else was at work. is it the candidate or message? it s both. sometimes it is the candidate and murdoch and akin and the witch lady, those christine o donnell. yeah, those were clearly the candidates themselves that caused the defeat. sometimes it s a message. i agree with most of what john says. i think karl rove is actually i m not sure he said it the right way but his strategy is a good one. but it s not just a message, it s the substance. the substance of what this party has been captured by is totally
for republicans it s tougher because that group tends to be in their party. it was an ugly scene. and sadly, there is a profound misunderstanding among this group about the life of immigrants here in the united states. so it is going to be a little bit of a tough path. but, you know, we ve got to remember that 60% of the american public supports a path to earned citizenship. when you hear a loud angry mob like that, you ve got to realize, that s not the majority of americans. do you get a sense and we talked about this new coalition of latino and african-american and labor church groups who want to make a push for immigration, do you get a sense that people who support immigration reform are getting more activists and can make more of a difference than they have in the past? oh, absolutely. i think this issue has galvanized and strengthened a lot of different groups. it s not the traditional democratic groups but now you also have the faith evangelical
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i think that and i don t know what it says. it is not meant to be a judgment but seems to me like creative people end up being democrats and i think it has been that way forever. do they feel sorry for the downtrodden? i consider myself a creative person around i m a traditional guy more than a liberal guy. i think that democrats are very long on empathy. artists have to be long on empathy. republicans are long on logic. in my view. okay. that might be a little over simplifying. i was trying to simplify. i think there is a peer pressure kind of thing throughout that when you get into the business is everybody is one way that pretty much you got to go that bay listen, everybody can relate to brogue up at the kitchen table and hearing your parents talk only one view. you did work for dukakis when you were 24. i did, right. he was an okay guy but he was a very liberal guy and got
themselves. they think i will make money this way and what is what the message to kids is. you can make money by stripping it down and slezing it up. something a little less sexy, what what is going on in washington. romney saying cut cap and balance the budget which is what the republicans came out with today. boehner, cantor, mike pence, all of them. what is going on? a great campaign theme and all of them need to continue to be on it. there will come a time in which the reality of governing is you may not get all of that that you want simply because the republicans only have the house of representatives. they have got one half of one of three branches of government. if you don t have all of the moving parts you are not going to necessarily get it exactly your way. this is not government by burger king. and they have got to understand that you are probably going to end up getting what is on the men new and they have to find something that the president and the senate will go along