golfing? his spokesman trashes the president of the united states on a global issue. where is boehner? maybe he wants to keep distance. this is a little bit of red meat for the base but he s not officially saying it himself. but we have seen the story on the domestic front a lot, like if obama is for it, we re against it, and we re going to work backwards and find what principle justifies our opposition to this. let s go back to the world of common sense. americans are incredibly rational, except maybe some tea party people and far left. most people are rational. they see putin, look him in the face, and say this guy is not a good guy. he s got thumb screws in the basement somewhere. you don t know what he s doing with the kgb. what s left of it. of course we re having a problem with him. he s for syria, we re not. he doesn t want to help us with iran. we re at a war with iran. we re trying to avoid war with iran. name an issue. he s got snowden with a visa. of course we re a lit
back to hardball. now for the side show. anthony weiner was at a mayor forum last night hosted by the aarp and used some choice words. the event was a chance for candidates to court new york s senior citizen community. that didn t stop weiner from calling one republican rival grandpa. he cast his insult before the debate in a heated exchange with 69-year-old george mcdonald. new york one caught it all on camera. i heard what you said. really? what s going to happen if i do? are you mad? i am. what are you going to do, grandpa? grandpa. smart move there. the aarp called weiner s remark unfortunate. next, president obama answered questions about his u.s. housing market today in a
foreign policy. whenever they see an opportunity to connect their agenda to opposition to obama, that gives them opportunity to clear out clear out rand paul and ted cruz. that s who they have the problem with. rand paul said snowden was a hero. instead of attacking obama, they should go after rand paul. john bolton is never going to be secretary of state under rand paul. they re never going to nominate rand paul. you re too rational. they ll walk out of the convention before they nominate rand paul. watch the end of the show. i will. thank you. steve kornacki and john. we re about to have a fight on this issue. he may be right. i don t think so. up next, just when you think it couldn t happen, anthony weiner hits another new low. this is hardball, the place for politics.
the campaign we all cover all the time. everything we talk about, every utterance, every gaffe, every debate, every movement. and that s part of politics and in many ways the interesting and enjoyable part of politics, but it s not necessarily the decisive part of politics. there are important and powerful underlying forces that effect every campaign. in 2012, one was the economy. would it be just good enough to allow president obama to win re-election or bad enough to deny re-election. another was voter anger. which direction would it go? a third was the deep red/blue divide and how that shaped attitudes beyond what other people might say. and lastly, the shifting demographics in this country, which have moved against the republican party over a number of years and which they realized in a more significant way when mitt romney got only 27% of the hispanic vote last year.
anyway, up next, hillary, hillary, hillary. president obama s praising her, and the republicans are terrified of her. they should be. you re watching hardball, the place for politics.