a moderate. that s our best chance of winning. always, nominate the moderate. folks like jerry ford, bob dole, and john mccain. not folks like george w. bush and ronald reagan. no, nominate the moderate. as we ve seen, moderates do not have the best chance of winning. and almost certain not to win because they don t inspire with conviction. all right. what a look at that look how beautiful that is. it is kind of pretty for a monday. you know what s so pretty about it? it s actually getting light. have you noticed? lighter later. it s getting lighter earlier, staying lighter. last night it was 6:00 and we noticed it too. i didn t feel like i was in siberia. you know i ve lived in washington, lived in new york. you never realize until you travel from new york down to washington this time of year, it s a huge difference temperature wise. southern city, washington. it is. it ll be 60 here. what are you doing, mika? good morning, everyone. i m sorry
craven relationship to the base of the party. look, we now have a base, the republican party that is so radical that they can be pandered to by calls for elimination of public education, for we have a major candidate who yet could win campaigning as you were talking about against college education. there also taking the bizarre stands about women s reproductive rights, contraception, so this is really a radical, radical party. someone like ken melman, a long tradition of republicans closeted homosexuals, in power enabled homophobic policies and some periods the real dem
surprises me you read something like dick cheney lobbying for same sex marriage. quietly, right. in maryland. ken melman being incredibly integral to the effort in new york state and some other states in terms of working on same sex marriage rights. the group afer, american for equal rights, the group has been mobilizing high profile republicans, not pundit sfrngs form pundits. ted olsen. then when it comes to the republican nominating contest it has gone off the charts. well to the right of even what george w. bush was campaigning on in materials of being anti-gay, what is the relationship between a power player in republican politics and what republicans do? i don t understand there is a complete disconnect, i guess a desperate
work to change the politics, he s doing that. in things like the proposition 8 fight but what is going on within the republican party? that is the question. how is it every candidate. every candidate with the arguable example of jon huntsman, long gone, has taken such anti-gay views in terms of policy and rhetoric, have they remained sigh len a gay soldier serving in eye iraq, asked a perfectly pleasant question through youtube in a republican debate and no one including the then nine candidates on stage speaks up against it? it s great that ken melman is involved with raising money for afer and to fight proposition # appeared so on but what about within the party? i am i don t mean to sickle him out, paul singer, the hedge fund guys, the big bucks people who
demonization of gay people. when push had marriage amendments, then he does the right thing, comes out of as gay but comes out of the policies but where was he when it really mattered whn his own party and in that sense it s like roy cohen, finkelstein, jesse helms, one of the homophobic senators, he was in a gay marriage after he stopped working for jesse helms. there was a pathological disconnect. they have to be called on it. i think ken melman has done the right thing to the extent you can t go back in time. you can indict what he did in the past once you come out if you were complicit you have to