chairman, that he resigns from the house to plot his run for the presidency from the comfort of the only private sector job he has known working in the ryan family business, a business that has made him rich, the same way paris hilton got rich, through inheritance. some of the same pundits who were foolish enough to think that sarah palin was a front-runner for president this time will surely take ryan s presidential candidacy seriously, but he will do no better than dan quayle, joe lieberman, and john edwards did when they ran for president after being losing vice presidential candidates. and he will watch the republican presidential nomination next time go to one of the lucky ones, one of the lucky republicans, who was not selected by mitt romney to be the next losing vice presidential candidate,, who will never be president. joining me now, karen finney, former dnc communications director and msnbc political
president in 2016, or he might reasonably find the power of a junior member so dispiriting, after having had the power of a chairman, that he resigns from the house to plot his run for the presidency from the comfort of the only private sector job he has known working in the ryan family business, a business that has made him rich, the same way paris hilton got rich, through inheritance. some of the same pundits who were foolish enough to think that sarah palin was a front-runner for president this time will surely take ryan s presidential candidacy seriously, but he will do no better than dan quayle, joe lieberman, and john edwards did when they ran for president after being losing vice presidential candidates. and he will watch the republican presidential nomination next time go to one of the lucky ones, one of the lucky republicans, who was not selected by mitt romney to be
herweyer learned juanita s insurance policies would net tom nearly a quarter of a million dollars. that wouldn t make him rich, but it would free him from the pile of debt they d wracked up building that expensive new home. and a tip led investigators to another possible motive. her name, kelli brophy. she worked at a convenience store on tom s fedex route. he spent a lot of time with kelli brophy. do you think they had an affair? yes, i do. kelli says it never happened. did you have an affair with tom richardson? no. did you think he was cute? didn t give it a thought. kelli says she and tom were just close friends who talked on the phone while they both worked at night. and what would you guys talk about during these calls? usually bible studies. if true, there was a lot of bible study going on. investigators learned they talked on the phone 383 times in less than ten months.
changed the trajectory of the economy. you can make an argument i helped mitt romney for being rich. i did the macro-economic things necessary to make his career possible. with me now, larry kudlow, host of cnbc s the kudlow report. a man who has become a must stop for all the republican candidates. mr. kudlow, nice to see you. thank you, chuck. i appreciate that. i thought gingrich s line with romney that he helped make him rich was priceless. i was surprised, but it was priceless. it was one of those interesting little i m not going to attack him and subtle dig. let me ask you this, larry. you ve interviewed both of them extensive extensively. i think you had one of the first interviews with romney after he announced. which one of them can manage this economy? which one of them can do this? there s idea guy, like newt, that s the romney case, he s an idea guy, not a manager. and newt is going to say of
i m not getting into that. i think what the real focus is here again is on religious tolerance. that s really what this is about. and i think again to make this a big issue is just ridiculous right now. we re covering all the angles for you. paul steinhauser is in washington. and shannon travis is in iowa. let s go ahead and start with you, paul. bachmann and cain ducking the debate shows. just how delicate the balancing act proves, i guess, how delicate that balancing act needs to be. so what do you think? is this the end of the topic, or are we going to hear a lot more? i don t know if we ll hear a lot more, but we ll hear more no doubt about it. there s a debate tomorrow night. it could come up there. you heard that sound bite there state of the union with candy crowley. bachmann and cain didn t want to touch this issue. what about romney and the controversy over his faith? he doesn t want to touch it that much either. it was kind of telling that saturday at the va