problem with the definition of war. lindsey graham had a response to that today. here it is. to my party, i m a bit disappointed that you no longer apparently think we re at war. not senator paul. he s a man to himself. he has a view that i don t think is a republican view. i think is a legitimately held libertarian view. is this where the republican party is headed, a libertarian cam. and a traditional camp? i mean, the hypocrisy of, you know, a couple of these senators getting up, standing with rand paul on this. probably just to keep the filibuster going. but it just seems that they have really identified to the american people they ve got an identity crisis, they don t even know where they stand on the use of military action if they ve got the wrong president in there. look, certainly you have the libertarian camp and the national security camp for lack of a better word. rand paul versus mccain you re
failed presidency, but there s also some agreement. people are astonished that president obama, senator mccain, is doing many things that president bush did. i m not astonished, but fill applaud him, to having the good judgment that we re at war. to my party that i m a bit disappointed not senator paul. he s a man to himself. he has a view that i don t think is a republican view. i think it s a legitimately held libertarian view. you have to remember that sneer paul was the one senator who voted against a resolution that said the policy of the united states will not be to contain a nuclear-capable iran. it was 90-1. to his credit, he felt like that would be provoc tiff and may lead to a military conflict. he would rather have a nuclear-capable iran than use military force. and he said so, to his credit.
minority of their rights here in the senate, and back some years ago, there was going to be we were going to eliminate when republicans this side of the aisle was in the majority, we were going to eliminate the ability to call for 60 votes for judges. we had confirmation of judges. we were able to put that aside. there was another effort just at the beginning of this senate to do away with 60 votes and back down to 51, which in my view would have destroyed the senate. a lot of us worked a group of us worked very hard for a long time to come up with compromises that would allow the senate to move more rapidly, but at the same time and efficiently, but at the same time preserve the 60-vote majority requirement on some pieces of legislation. what we saw yesterday, what we saw yesterday is going to give
are you questioning rick santorum s right to his religious beliefs? not at all. what are you questioning? the impact on his policy view of the world and his where? where? if he says protestant churches are controlled by satan that seems to me to indicate he has a certain view of protestants. what policy, david, are you specifically addressing that to? what policy are you specifically applying that to? stop. how can you how can you be president of the entire nation if you believe part of them are part of satan where is the policy abortion, contraception? all these moral where is the policy implication? let me help you out. this isn t complicated. i think what he is talking about, not to speak for rick santorum and not defending his view but simply to translate him, he is talking about some of the mainstream protestant religions now that accept same sex marriage, they accept same sex relationships. they accept gay people in their
you still have a large chunk of the, i would say, my guess and i want to dig more into the numbers of who were supporters of this, it would be the older, second and third generation michiganders who are republicans but also have this sort of sentimental view of the auto industry. they don t have the libertarian view. in the head-to-head matchup the president leads romney in michigan by nearly 20 points for the general, and beats santorum by a wider margin. in arizona the president still trails 45-40. basically a republican state. i watch these commercials on our network here the ones about reverse mortgages that henry winkler does. and fred thompson did. isn t it what romney is doing, reverse mortgage. and all these guys, they are getting votes in primaries, getting the cash up front and giving away the house. they re losing general election votes by the way they re campaigning. michigan 18 points down to the president. absolutely. because when he first stepped into the state it be