they couldn t decide, this is the funny part on who would be the presidential candidate and the vice presidential candidate. so then the idea fell apart. one thing is for sure, a gingrich/santorum duet would have been a ser ren nad to obama headquarters in chicago. josh green broke this story at bloomberg businessweek this week and michael covers politics for time. congratulations, john. i thought we had gleaned every iota of ruby fun out of the 2012 election and you found this morsel. tell me how you got it it, if you can, and tell me what it means. sure. i was interviewing newt last friday for businessweek and i d heard rumors of this and i asked him about it and yeah, they d done it and from there it was about putting together the pieces and re-creating this special chapter of the 2012 campaign. for the nugget of fun, did he really think, knowing newt s brilliant ego, did he really think there was a chance he could have convinced rick santorum, the leader of the
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and everything we could count showed an obama edge. but the republicans sort of did something tough to themselves. they really shocked and awed their own base, because they weren t ready for this. well, i think it s very interesting, because i go back to that interview, i think it was ron suskind did with a member of the bush team who told him, hey, you guys live in the reality-based community but we don t have to, and was bragging about the way that they were able to create their own reality and this was such a good thing for them politically. but it turned out not to be such a good thing for them politically. they ve got fox news, they ve got rush, they ve got people that just reflect back what they want to believe. they don t believe polls. they think that with legitimate rape, a woman s reproductive system can shut the whole thing down. science denial, reproductive denial. they ve got their own parallel reality and it really i ll go to nick on one point and back to robert. ni
let s have a serious debate. don t scream and yell. you know what, it won t kill the country if we raise taxes a little bit on millionaires. it really won t, i don t think. i don t see why republicans don t take obama s offer to freeze taxes for everyone below $250,000, make it $1 million. really? the republican party is going to fall on its sword to defend a bunch of millionaires, half of whom voted democratic and half of whom live in hollywood. that was republican strategist bill kristol yesterday urging republicans to give up the no taxes policy. he says he will win this debate with president obama. one of the reasons i don t get too worked up is, we ve played this game of chess with the exact same people around the table, with the chessboard exactly the same as two years earlier. and we extend all the tax cuts two years. and obama started two years ago,
think about the young kids who were in basic training, how they re being taught, do the right thing when no one s looking. well, what are they supposed to look now? it s a really real big tragedy, i think. well, thank you for that. david wood gets the last word at the tou the huffington post. we will be staying on this story. in fact, next hour andrea mitchell will have an interview with senator diane finestein, chair of the intelligence committee. coming up next, what did jim messina know and when did he know it? reports that he was within a handful of votes on predicting president obama s final vote count. while david plouffe had an electoral prediction on the nose. but m arepublicans didn t just e the race last week, many seemed to lose their bearings, predicting a 300-vote electoral landside. it excited the republican base and then left many dazed and confused. so now what happens now that the bubble has been burst by