weak. the same critics are claiming a victory they doubted two weeks earlier. want to dig into the magazine a little bit. i have a piece about ron paul. yes. rick perry on top, romney trailing a bit. ron paul, in solid third place. yes. it s interesting how the extremes in both parties move the middle to both sides. ron paul has this backing of people who just think he is the profit as we call it in the story. his ideas are pretty far out there. we do a constellation of his intellectual history. but, again, getting rid of social security, going back to the gold standard, all these things are ideas which are not really accepted in mainstream thinking. people are, you know, people cotton to them. people like them.
giving us the same sort of solutions that republicans are advancing that give the american people a vision of how we re going to have medicare for everybody. well, representative bill cassidy, we thank you for weighing in, sir, from louisiana. thank you so much. thank you, alex. later this morning, we re going to talk with msnbc political analyst jonathan alter about what is ahead in the spending fight, who has the upper hand and what it might mean for the 2012 elections. that s coming up in the next hour for you. we all heard that sugary snacks can be full of empty calories and lead to weight gain. one doctor is taking it a step further. he says sugar is toxic. excess sugar consumption is just as dangerous and deadly as addiction to cigarettes or alcohol. he makes his case in a youtube video that has gone viral. his lecture has been viewed by more than a million people and was the subject of an article this week. gina bayless is at case medical center in cleveland. gina, good
i m with you. i wish the people would stop doing it in national mainstream media, it s frustrating, but there s no question that there is a committed effort to try to undermine the president s ability be labeling him a muslim. just like this crazy liberal crackpot bloggers out there who undermine republicans at every turn. they do not represent any mainstream thinking of either party, i believe. mary matalin, hillary rosin, thank you both. criminals are finding new ways to use technology to hide from the fbi, and the price of inflation. we ll look at what s driving up the cost of your food.
anything, anything to achieve that. but here s the dangerous thing, cenk, if this was just a bunch of lunatic bloggers, world net daily, laugh it off, a few laughs before the new years comes but the crazy thing is these lunatic fringe ideas have a part of becoming the main part of the republican mainstream thinking. 12 members of the house, republican members of the house, signed on a sponsors of a birther bill. you know? i mean, how many real died in the world republicans. so that s where the scarey thing is. the fact that the lunatics are now running the republican asylum. and you can put your money on the fact that if they bang this long enough on fox, that suddenly this will become part of mainstream republican talking points. right. and that s the scary part. right and we ve covered on the show before, a shocking number of people believe that a.c.o.r.n. stole the presidency for obama on the republicans side. so who knows, maybe they ll believe this crap stuff next.
he won t seek re-election next year, opening the door for chief of staff rahm emanuel to take his place. and the naacp has launched a tea party tracker to monitor tea partiers for racism and other forms of extremism. with us tonight, joe madison, xm satellite radio talk show host, and ron christie, republican strategist. gentlemen, good to have you with us tonight. thank you. let s start with sharron angle. ron, is she capable of mainstream thinking after being on record saying she wants to get rid of the department of education, the irs, social security, and medicare? well, sure she is. good evening, ed. i think she s certainly more mainstream than the current senate majority leader. this, a gentleman who referred to the current president of the united states as a negro who could speak with an african-american dialect when it suited him. this from a man who said the war in iraq was lost, which of course our brave men and women prevailed through the surge. so if you want to talk