dialogue on this issue. you talk about obamacare being big government and people are pushing that away. it s not working and sort of another way of pushing the repeal message. and, yet, you also say you can t be the party of no. i think those two things might be at odds with each other. david, do you want to jump in? well, one of my questions is where is your coming into washington, despite the message on the campaign trail, is there a big idea around which you think you can work with president obama, where you can support president obama and the democrats? well, so i said yesterday, you know, my campaign is over. we have a responsibility to work together. i pledge that on the house floor during my brief remarks. so, listen. where we can find areas of agreement, we need to work together. i, obviously, bring some pretty core convictions and he need to stay true to those convictions. my mentor and i know many have served with him on both sides of the aisle, bill young, listen, he w
that, you know, we had a local race and it s easy either inside the beltway or just based on 30-second commercials to suggest that it is just a repeal strategy. it never was an hour race. i would say for republicans, you know, that is an important lesson to hold on to. i had the opportunity over five months to talk about specific solutions. we can t you just be the party of no so i laid out three or four alternatives and the reason why is i wanted to draw the contrast to what the real issue is here. this is a big government, small government debate. you know, republicans and democrats, we have this debate all the time. obamacare is simply a manifestation of that. people see obamacare as big government in their lives. it changes the role of government in their lives. that is what is resonating. what also is resonating is, as i said earlier, we can t be the party of no. this was a local race. a very local race. what miss pelosi said about republicans just chanting repeal that was never o
well, my favorite is jeb bush. i live in florida. i saw how he operated as governor. he did an incredible job as governor. he s very different than his brother. he appeals to all the constituencies of the republican party. but he s extremely forward thinking. he did a cover story for newsmax magazine and the headline was growth is the answer. the republican party if it s to survive and that is a question in my mind, really has to become the party of opportunity and growth. we can t be the party of no. hearing you talk about thep arep party makes me wonder could you support hillary clinton in 2016 instead? i think it s a little early to make that decision. she s not the nominee of her party. she hasn t officially announced. i would certainly consider that but i would like to see who the republicans nominate.
establishment candidate who will be the lead social conservative candidate. all these different little signs, but number one is pretty much pre-determined to be rand paul. newt gingrich. what were the rumblings in the room? you can t be the party of no. you have to say grow some things. any sentiment that was audible? from the crowd? reporter: not nothing in the sense of, you know, a little bit of applause here and there. that s really a message we ve heard over and over again during this three-day conference. rick perry saying they need to be the party of ideas. something that paul ryan has said. really there s a sense within the republican party, grass roots, they can t be just against the president, just saying no to things. really, the question is, they haven t found a way to agree yet in terms of what they want to be for. okay. and among those who it was expressing an opinion about who they don t necessarily want to see in the white house, representative michele bachmann s
can t be the party of no. he is stuck on no and stupid. he can t move away from really unpopular policies and can t move away from trashing the president. after having a really cordial go-round with this president who tried to reach out and emphasize areas that used to be common ground. universal pre-k used to be a bipartisan idea, raising the minimum wage the same thing. he goes off after that and becomes mr. no once again. and you know, krystal, when jindal called the gop the party of no, let s remember all the things the republicans have said no to. raising the minimum wage. extending long-term unemployment benefits. expanding medicaid in many states. closing corporate tax loopholes. a path to citizenship. the american jobs act, which economists say would add would have added 1.9 million jobs. and new gun laws, and on and on and on. they have been the party of no. jindal was right about that on