from the first term, a reset with russia, has just collapsed. for boehner, this is just another opportunity to attack the president. other republicans like john mccain who know what they re talking about said they agreed with the president s decision but suggested going even further in cooling our relationship with moscow. steve kornacki is host of up with steve kornacki. anyway, it s on weekend mornings and doing great, and john is a great historian, analyst, and author of a great book the center holds about the 2012 election. let s try, steve and then john. it seems to me, you whack him if he goes right, whack him if he goes left if he s a republican. we failed to make friends with vladimir putin. look at him. you can t be friends with that guy. he wants to be daniel craig in the action movies, but he s a ferocious guy who is probably a kgb guy to his soul. you could look at the reactions from the right, put them in two categories.
let me finish tonight with this. let me nail down by protection now. i believe the republicans will go hard right for 2016. something it hasn t done since 1980. here s the thing which works well for the democrats. parties as you ve noticed face a conflict every four years. should they run someone who represents their strongest passions right or left. or do they run someone who appeals to the middle? most of the time they head to the middle. this is what republicans did most successfully in 1952, when after 20 years of fdr and harry truman, they wanted back in the white house. they ran the general who received a nazi surrendo and won. then with richard nixon. in 64 the right said it was its turn and blew the roof off in san francisco mocking republican moderates and liberals like
thinking about running. there are a lot of potentially attractive candidates to republican voters. and i think we re going to see a pretty big and robust debate among these people among these people. part of that will be what s the direction the party should take. the establishment wing, and that s why it s the establishment wing of both parties. democrat and republican tends to win nominations. they have the dukakiss, the clintons, they have the big shots behind. do you think the establishment wing of the republican party can get one more election victory? can they win again after all these people like dol and mccain and pushes. can they win it again against the right? the right hasn t won since reagan really. the right has not won since then is the fairway to put it. the establishment wing does somehow manage to prevail and in part because insurgent wing or the very conservative wing or however you want to describe it, often becomes so far to the right in these contests that repu
nomination in 2016. there are a lot of people thinking about running. there are a lot of potentially attractive candidates to republican voters. and i think we re going to see a pretty big and robust debate among these people, and partpeo. and part of that will be what s the direction the party should take. the establishment wing and the establishment wing of both parties, they tend to win nominations. they ve got the big states behind them. doing the establishment wing of the republican party can get one more election victory? can they win after all these people like mccain and bushes, can they win against the right? because the right hasn t won since reagan really. the right has not won since then is probably the fair way to put it. the establishment wing does somehow manage to prevail. and in part because the insurgent wing or very conservative wing or however you describe it often come to far to
prelude to monday night s big national championship game. alabama crimson tide/notre dame fighting irish. they arrived yesterday? south florida ahead of monday s bcs matchup. nick saban homecoming. homecoming in florida. of course, he coached the dolphins, 2005 and 2006 before he went to real major league football back in alabama for the crimson tide. alabama trying to win the third national championship in just four years. notre dame back when we had notre dame football on sunday mornings, hasn t won a national title since 1988. you know it s going to be a great game, but i tell you what. any alabama players who have been told that they re going to have a free ride, all they need to do is look at 11-1 florida who thought they were going to stomp louisville last night. look what happened to them. look what happened to lsu. on any given monday. on any given monday. 50 days after the last game you play. with the whole country watching. i think they re going to say