consecutive appearance here on the last word without a neck thai, and i m just wondering, is there something we need to discuss here? oh, i get it. this is your olympics look, right? when the olympics are over, the neckties will go back on. you know it, i don t know. i m thinking of starting up a thing called jonathan after dark. only for you, lawrence. it s working for you in late prime-time. jonathan capehart and nia henderson, thank you both for joining me tonight. thanks, lawrence. coming up, there is new hope for gun control advocates coming from one of the members of the u.s. supreme court and it s coming from, of all people, justice antonin scalia. that s in the rewrite. and the spread of voter suppression laws could deprive 5 million people of their right to vote in november, but the revolt against those laws is now gaining some momentum. that s coming up.
pawlenty slipped off-message there. republicans dropped their anti-teleprompter rants months ago once they realized they were in the process of nominating a candidate who can never be trusted going off-prompter. the head of the last republican search for a successful vice presidential candidate found fault with the most recent choice of a vice presidential candidate. i like governor palin. i ve met her, i know her. she s an attractive candidate, but based on her background, she s only been governor for, what, two years. i don t think she passed that test. of being ready? of being ready to take over. and i think that was a mistake. joining me now is jonathan capehart, washington post editorial writer and nia henderson, washington post national political reporter covering the romney campaign. nia, it seems that we are unlikely in the timetable to see
and east an articulate, effective, economical messenger for the campaign. well, no kidding. we ve known that for 223 days. what do you mean, folks really like him? of course focus really like him, especially republican folks. i like him. the unnamed pawlenty confidant adds this in the politico piece. frankly, in a lot of ways, he has been able to make the case for mitt more eloquently than sometimes he made the case for himself. and so tim pawlenty has found out what every candidate who drops out of the presidential primaries finds out. it is much easier to run for vice president than it is to run for president. joining me now is nia henderson, national political reporter for the washington post and david corn, washington bureau chief for mother jones and an msnbc political analyst. nia, i hope the washington post is not treating this pawlenty as number one on the
vice presidential pick becomes more a problem than an opportunity. if you go back to, you know, say clinton picking al gore, that seemed at the time to be kind of flashy. the two of them made sense together. and i think obama did go and do the do no harm route and pick biden, it sort of cut against his theme of hope and change in washington. but i think biden s been a damned good vice president and the two have worked well. i don t see pawlenty being able to do that for romney, should they get to the white house. by the way, just for the record on my vice presidential predictions, i lost a very big bet to a friend of mine, this will require a name drop, to sean penn nice name drop! no, no. on who president obama, then nominee obama, would pick for vp. he picked joe biden months ahead of time, he was completely right, i was completely wrong. but tonight, i can t be wrong, it s going to be tim pawlenty. i just feel it. nia henderson and david corn, thank you very much for joini
more a problem than an opportunity. if you go back to, you know, say clinton picking al gore, that seemed at the time to be kind of flashy. the two of them made sense together. and i think obama did go and do the do no harm route and pick biden, it sort of cut against his theme of hope and change in washington. but i think biden s been a damned good vice president and the two have worked well. i don t see pawlenty being able to do that for romney, should they get to the white house. by the way, just for the record on my vice presidential predictions, i lost a very big bet to a friend of mine, this will require a name drop, to sean penn nice name drop! no, no. on who president obama, then nominee obama, would pick for vp. he picked joe biden months ahead of time, he was completely right, i was completely wrong. but tonight, i can t be wrong, it s going to be tim pawlenty. i just feel it. nia henderson and david corn, thank you very much for joining me tonight.