and both some democrats and republicans are pointing to this as disappointing, to say the very least, even the republican governor of ohio, john kasich. let s listen. our leaders need to stop playing a zero-sum game like flipping a coin. i win, you lose. leaders need to figure out a way to bring people together. now, they can have a victory, but they can t leave the person who loses vanquished. and that s so much of what we re seeing. and in a zero-sum game, we get to appoint where any tactic is acceptable and then we use our tongues and we say things that we ultimately can deeply regret. governor kasich there. so, what are your thoughts about his assessment of the process? well, it s not a pretty process, democracy isn t always pretty. i was particularly moved when linda murkowski, the sole republican to vote against kavanaugh, said that it was the
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politics. he is growing questions about what the administration knew and the decisions they made about security in benghazi and afterwards to insist it was not a terrorist action. i think all of that will give mitt romney a strong opening. it remains to be seen. based on his performance in the first debate talking about the economy, i suspect he will do well. host: are you still with us? caller: in 1968, he went to paris, france. i do not consider him a leader. guest: it was for a peace corps type thing the mormon church does. you could probably dig up things i have written making fun of anyone who goes to live in paris. he has done a good job of defending that and making the argument he was doing a terrible thing and fulfilling a public service requirement of the mormon church. that speaks to another thing. during the primary, i was highly skeptical he would be able to get beyond his mormonism with the christian voters. it is remarkable how he has managed to make it not be a
nah. the american voters are getting sick and tired of the washington pundits. i think it s going to be a political earthquake. telling them how they are going to vote before they even go to the polls. political analysts, polls, pundits be damned as they predict certain victories in the house. ladies and gentlemen, the next speaker of the house, john boehner. they are feeling kind of cocky. this thing is far from over. in the senate anything could happen. the key races that will determine whether we ll have a democratic or republican senate. i still think that west virginia could be a little bit of a surprise. but democrats are not giving up, reminding voters about the last time the republicans were in charge. i m not voting republican this year because i have a memory. i remember which party took a record budget surplus and turned it into a record budget deficit. i remember which party brought us the wall street bailout. i remember which party b
same thing as a landslide. how about just waiting until all the votes are counted. na. the american voters are getting sick and tired of the washington pundits. i think it s going to be a political earthquake. telling them how they are going to vote before they even go to the polls. political analysts, polls, pundits be damned as they predict certain victories in the house. ladies and gentlemen, the next speaker of the house, john boehner. they are feeling kind of cocky. this thing is far from over. in the senate anything could happen. the key races that will determine whether we ll have a democratic or republican senate. i still think that west virginia could be a little bit of a surprise. but democrats are not giving up, reminding voters about the last time the republicans were in charge. i m not voting republican this year because i have a memory. i remember which party took a record budget surplus and turned it into a record budget deficit. i r