ryan. paul ryan was one of the first saying, no, we don t want you as republican conference chair. i don t think it s any accident that the party has enshrined rising star paul ryan to rebutt the state of the union. she s going to come out and rebut paul ryan. you rebutted both of them. you knocked them both off their pedestals. we have the thing that freud says slow down, stop it, you re making an ass of yourself. these po these people don t have it. she runs for president without the pretense of running. here she is, issuing out scripts lake a president. like the president, the promise yeah, prepared remarks. for iowa tonight, the promise of america is under threat as
kind of even-steven there. finally, jim demint, the senator from south carolina invokes a republican hero. the south carolina governor has just replaced 2012 s mama grizzly on the highest of conservative pedestals, saying of sarah palin, i believe she s done more for the republican party than anyone since ronald reagan. let s recap the perspective of that accomplishment. ronald reagan served two terms as governor of california, two terms as president of the united states, and helped to end the cold war. sarah palin, she cut out halfway through her first term as governor. historical equivalence? i doubt it. and senator demint who backed romney in 2008 says he still has an open mind about the 2012 race. the fact that he has a mind is news. up next i shouldn t say that our panelists are back. they ll make their pick of who will win the 2012 nomination? could sarah palin really do it?
the pardon, 379 oppose it. kind of even-steven there. finally, jim demint, the senator from north carolina invokes a republican hero. he has just placed 2012 s mama grizzly on the highest of conservative pedestals, saying of sarah palin, i believe she s done more for the republican party than anyone since ronald reagan. let s recap the perspective of that accomplishment. ronald reagan served two terms as governor of california, two terms as president of the united states, and helped to end the cold war. sarah palin, she cut out halfway through her first term as governor. historical significance? i doubt it. and senator demint who backed romney in 2008 says he still has an open mind about the 2012 race. the fact that he has a mind is news. shouldn t say that. up next, our panelist is back. could sarah palin really win the 2012 republican nomination? you re watching hardball on msnbc. i m just not sure what. what is it?
physical every year, i think that we should do it rather calvin butts at abyssinian says that we should also get a checkup from the neck up every year. i see husband point. i love him. what about the reverend the bishop rather saying that he plans to come back and hold services as normal next sunday? under the circumstances, with this kind of dark cloud hanging over him, is that the best thing for his congregation? the best thing for his congregation and i think also that we have a tendency to put people on pedestals where they do not belong because we are all human. but i think the best thing that he can do is to be truthful. that s what i think. because that s the only way you stay true to your calling. and even in the world of public relations and business they tell you that when you make a mistake the first thing that you should do is speak the truth. but that s not the way that
i think a lot of times adults always want to be the strong one and don t want to appear vulnerable, so we don t tell young people who we really are. i want to pick up on the vulnerability there in terms of how this is affecting the african-american community in general, because it has been noted earlier on this program that the church can provide a greater epicenter on average within that community than it does, say, in the white community. so this has the potential, you know, domino effect that could be pretty severe. yes, it could. and you know, the reality is we tend to put our leaders unfairly on pedestals, where they do not belong because they are human, frail, challenged individuals, as are we all. the black community, the church in particular, is a very close-knit one. and i think that it really is necessary and there s a tendency for folks in the black church to be very homeophobic. and when you cannot be who you