that s why rove keeps chipping away at rick perry? rove attacked rick perry because he knows rick perry doesn t have the smarts to pull this off. more importantly, he knows what rick perry said before rick perry came out on the national scene. the short list is, he wanted to ban social security, ban medicare, he wanted to ban teaching evolution in schools. interestingly enough he wanted to ban america. he wanted texas to secede from the united states. he never said it. mike it s not true. let me finish what i m saying. he didn t say it. he said in part, because he did he didn t have the intellect to understand what a shallow simple ton proclamation that was, and you re worried about it, because you know that s going to come up in this
teaching evolution in schools. interestingly enough he wanted to ban america. he wanted texas to secede from the united states. he never said it. mike it s not true. let me finish what i m saying. he didn t say it. he said in part, because he did he didn t have the intellect to understand what a shallow simple ton proclamation that was, and you re worried about it, because you know that s going to come up in this campaign. and you have to defend this simple ton shallow statement. more importantly, michael, this is a guy who said, we should abandon the 16th and 17th amendment to the u.s. constitution. and you know when you go on your radio show, you have to tell your listeners the front-runner candidate, perry, your guy, is the guy who said, we need to abandon the 16th and 17th amendment. we can t have a standing army in the united states. i will agree with you about this. i think that the biggest problem for republicans right now is
it is coming from the top of the gop. karl rove makes it clear that republican king makers are nervous about the current field. you don t want these candidates running in the republican primary that it becomes impossible for them to win the general election. people want to win, they don t want somebody who goes so far to the extremes of either party that they lack a chance to carry out a victory off in november. let s bring in michael medved. and mike pappantonio. great to have you with us tonight. i have you on the program, because you always seem to give us a straight up answer without the bullet points. i try. are you nervous about the current field? do you want candidates like ryan and christie to get into the mix? what do you make of all of this? yes, and yes. look, ed, you watched that debate thursday night. i wrote about it for daily beast. 2 was a disaster for the republican party mitt romney was the only one who came across unscathed. everyone came off smaller. they
let s bring in michael medved. and mike pappantonio. great to have you with us tonight. i have you on the program, because you always seem to give us a straight up answer without the bullet points. i try. are you nervous about the current field? do you want candidates like ryan and christie to get into the mix? what do you make of all of this? yes, and yes. look, ed, you watched that debate thursday night. i wrote about it for daily beast. 2 was a disaster for the republican party mitt romney was the only one who came across unscathed. everyone came off smaller. they divide add tension and the limelight, and a very, very few of them looked presidential. and yes, that s a problem. and yes, i am enthusiastic about