one thing there is not a lot of dispute about john howell man, in losing hicks, he s losing a limb. his affection for hope and see him unhinged as we ve seen him. maybe since he lost wisconsin. i don t remember a period in sort of the trump era where he s been more off the rails than in the last five days. something is clearly got him rattled. i don t know if it s the combination of the mueller probe, the destabilized nature of jared and ivanka s presence in the white house or and i heard this today, that john kelly is too heavy handed with him. i think it s all of them. i think that this is not one of those things where you can point to a single factor. if you think of what s happening the last couple of weeks, you can t ignore the fact that the mueller probe is in a weird simultaneous way that the net is widening and tightening at the same time. you see the pleas, you see the
that 14% that gingrich has may erode considerably, may erode to santorum s advantage. it would be a huge win for santorum if he could pick up illinois after coming in so close in michigan and ohio, winning in the industrial midwest. it would be a big blow to romney psychologically, it would give santorum huge bragging rights going forward. i love this idea. nothing impressed me as much as the pictures i have seen in movies, never been there, of the beautiful chicago suburbs. i keep thinking of that wonderful movie with the gorgeous elizabeth shue, adventures in baby-sitting. those people look to me like perfect romney voters. well-off, well-turned-out, well-educated republicans who are probably good on the fiscal issues because they love to save taxpayers money on poor people s programs but are pro-choice on all the other things on social issues. romney country, right? john? yes, yes, sorry, thought you were talk to go david corn. yes. i wanted to get your information.
arizona republicans are about to pass a bill that actually allows employers to require women getting reimbursed for birth control to prove they don t plan to use them for birth control. get it? we ll try to. and republicans say the price of gas could come down if only we ll drill, baby, drill. democrats say we are already drilling and the price keeps going up. who s right? as if things couldn t get worse in afghanistan, karzai wants u.s. troops confined to barracks by next year. he s now questioning whether only one american was involved in that terrible massacre. is there any way out of this mess over there? finally, let me finish with the long family secret of ours, who my mother voted for back in 1960 in the kennedy/nixon race. it s a big st. patrick s day story. we begin with the fight for illinois. john howell man writes for new york magazine, and david writes for mother jones. both are nbc political analysts of the highest order. what we have is this.
another economic lightweight. mitt romney, ready to lead the nation to a new era with the boldest gop agenda since reagan. i m mitt romney, and i approve this message. that is the most downbeat, grim ad. it s dark in color, dark in mood, dark in music. only at the end does it say anything slightly upbeat. john, that s the despicable kind of politics i hate. it drives down voter participation. it runs people out of politics. who wants to join a business described like that? who wants to be a young person in their 30s and run for politics if that s the crap you have to put up with. john heilemann. it is certainly not inspiring. yet as you know, chris, romney campaign has been successful running negative campaigns throughout this primary season, and they do it very well. they have been successfully doing it, they had big financial advantages, poured a lot of negatives ads on the air, whether it s through the campaign itself, usually more so through the super pac. it s worked for the
his plan? economic illiteracy. inexcusable. the worst idea of any gop candidate. rick santorum. another economic lightweight. mitt romney, ready to lead the nation to a new era with the boldest gop agenda since reagan. i m mitt romney, and i approve this message. that is the most downbeat, grim ad. it s dark in color, dark in mood, dark in music. only at the end does it say anything slightly upbeat. john, that s the despicable kind of politics i hate. it drives down voter participation. it runs people out of politics. who wants to join a business described like that? who wants to be a young person in their 30s and run for politics if that s the crap you have to put up with. john heilemann. it is certainly not inspiring. yet as you know, chris, romney campaign has been successful running negative campaigns throughout this primary season, and they do it very well. they have been successfully doing it, they had big financial