off gop incumbents and eventually mcconnell himself. someone last night on one of the panels, i can t remember who it was, maybe it was someone here, who said that when you get early into politics and you have to work on a campaign where the person wins, you start to think that you re the candidate that you know, kind of that you have tapped into something and you feel that way until you get slapped down the next time and lose. i think that s part of it. i do think that carl and i got pretty famous off of bill clinton, we never spoke at rallies. we stayed back behind the scenes and behind the stage. and bannon, not only did he come out, he came out against the president. that is unprecedented. i never saw my friend carl rove do that do george w. bush, axe never did that to president obama, carl and i never did that to clinton. this is without precedent that he s taking on the president. even insulted the president s daughter at a rally. it s extraordinary and it s noteworthy. and
he s blaming mitch mcconnell. it s a huge embarrassment for bannon. he jumped in four square behind roy moore and steve bannon is the guy who nationalized this election because he said this is going to be a proxy battle in this war between the hard right nationalists that i represent and the gop establishment that mitch mcconnell represents. floor got wiped with his candidate last night. i think it does a lot to puncture this aura that bannon worked hard to build up that he has psychic connection with trump voters and the republican brace that he can transfer to other candidates and other republican primaries and knock of gop incumbents. i can t remember who it was who said that when you get early into politics, you have to work on a campaign where the person wins, you start to think that you re the candidate, that you
out of policies. we have a lot of chumps in both parties and the stereotypes of the parties are what we re becoming sick of. if you look on the left i see the stereotype as an elizabeth warren. humorless, shrill. on the right, rick santorum, humorless, shrill. you are a slave to the man. the republican, you can t shake that dorky moralism. they need a new message and it s step off, get out of my paycheck, out of my bedroom and out of my way. that person wins. that s libertarian. you know what i i think the republicans need to brand their lousy brand. can i tell you if the republicans adopted the entire platform of the obama administration, the mainstream media would still criticize them, still demonize them and call them racist because they don t pay attention to any of the details or facts. i m not stopping, i m just getting started. i think that the rise of the whole independent thing is a new
the polls are clear. i saw a recent poll, 80% of voters, the number one issue is economy. it s the economy, stupid. that s what it is, all about the economy. who can get us working. who can get the economy working again. that person wins. not about national defense, only about the economy. americans are divided on whether they would elect a mormon president. this is according to a recent poll conducted by poll position. it had more than 1/3 of respondents saying no. is there anything short of converting to win over these voters, robert? the reality of life is religious bigotry, sexism, racial discrimination is spart of our culture and tolerated in too many corners of our so he iet and the media. the great accomplishments we can take pride in is how our political process helps us overcome these discriminations. for example, john kennedy s election to the presidency as a roman catholic. certainly barak obama s election to the presidency.
surging along with his poll numbers, i understand. tell me more about that. that s right, they raised a million dollars in 24 hours after those iowa caucuses and he is fighting hard for votes here in new hampshire. you know, the conventional wisdom was, kyra, that he would spend more time in south carolina because that s where a lot of social conservatives are, not so much up here in new hampshire. but keep in mind, rick santorum has a rust belt republican approach to how he wants to go after votes here in this new hampshire primary. he s talking about giving tax breaks to the manufacturing industry to get them to have a rebound. he s also talking about tax breaks for middle class families, so, all of that really aimed at those sort of factory workers and lunch bucket republicans who work in a lot of these towns here in new hampshire. at a town hall event earlier this morning, he was talking about what the difference is between iowa and new hampshire and how he feels he sho