message, one that recognizes that ultimately families and two people coming together in a loving, committed way, that is what s at the cornerstone of our society and we should do everything we can to make families stronger. nick, do you think a republican could get the nomination by going back to the old state s rights position and saying, look, i think marriage is an issue for the states? and just leave it at that? i think it s hard to get through without you know, an affirmative declaration that they think that gay marriage is unconstitutional or at least that there s no right to it in the constitution. it s just a litmus test. i think it s very hard. we saw rand paul for a little bit try and play with some of the states rights language and move off into a more conventional decision against it. there are just powerful pr pushing against these candidates and pushing them away from taking that stance. let s listen to what scott walker said about it. marriage is a decision that
recently, virtually all the candidates talked about, you know, traditional, what they see as traditional marriage. but then i ve seen some of these candidates in new hampshire and they re asked about it and they quickly want to move to other things. so i think it s going to be interesting to watch how they react to this question in the first two early states. nick, we see marco rubio moving into the war on christians notion of what s going on here. look, the first candidate on the gop side who said he s for same-sex marriage is the first candidate to doom his candidacy. this is a powerful and real constituency in their party. they care deeply about this. they feel they are on the defense, fighting a action against a hostile mainstream culture. and to defy that and go against them is extremely difficult. what you have here is a competition between the grassroots world and the faith world in the gop and the donor world, which for the most part
the burden that he carries today. but the issue is not personal. it is our profound differences of where we are heading and what we want to accomplish. and nick composer, that was a guy who was planning to run hard against lyndon johnson, just as bernie sanders intends to run hard in this race. he s not going to personalize it to hillary clinton. well, you were saying that profound difference. i think, look, there s obviously going to be a clear choice here. bernie sanders is not an off the shelf candidate. on the other hand, you can t hang that on hillary clinton. it s not her fault, it s not her fault. she can t be tied to it. i still don t think there is the right kind of galvanizing issue as you described it that he can ride to insurgency. i think the bigger danger for clinton is all the ways in which