the obama/pelosi/reid agenda it s going to leave us less secure, more in debt and under the thumb of big government and that is out of touch and it s out of date and if scott brown is any indication, it s running out of time. i m joined live from washington by columnist bob franken. good morning to you. good morning. can i tell you, every time i talk about sarah palin, here come the tweets. oh, my gosh. it s just it s she draws such passion out of people. my tweets tend to be on the negative side but anyway, what did sarah palin and the tea partiers accomplish in nashville and what did they not accomplish? you see, alex, i think your question suggests you re being hope-y change-y on us here. is that sarah palin speak? that s sarah palin speak. it s interesting she was at opryland. all i can think of is the old achy breaky heart song. maybe this is the follow up. what did it accomplish?
voters, with sarcasm as she repeatedly went after president obama. now a year later i have to ask the supporters of all that how is ha hope-y, change-y stuff working out for you? reporter: her sharpest attackings directed at the president s counter terror policy especially the handling of the christmas day bomber. there are questions we would have liked this foreign terrorist to answer before he lawyered up and invoked our u.s. constitutional right to remain silent. to win that war, we need a commander in chief, not a professor of law standing at the lectern. reporter: palin went through a litany of issues at the heart of the tea party movement. anger at washington, wall street, big government, health a care reform and budget deficits. we re drowning in national debt and many of us have had enough. reporter: citing scott brown s senate victory in massachusetts as evidence of tea party power, palin urged supporters to get involved in
other americans, the george of young voters believe this country is headed in the wrong direction. now to say that sarah palin is the solution, but maybe she was right about one thing. all that hope-y-change-y still not working out. the money kropf virtually that happens, the bank reform, the war, energy, go down the list. joanings is jim van ihei, along with miranda smith. if you look at the polls data, the base, outside the organizations, the voters themselves still like obama. it s a smart strategy, to go where he can try to go to the base. they re not enthusiastic at this