boehner falls into the category of this is just an extension of what the republican playbook of politics by the way, where is he 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
hillary clinton for a long time. you know what i think is really bugging them? they know the only way to beat hillary is to run a moderate, like christie, and they re darned determined not to do that. now they face the awful connu conundrum, we don t want her to beat us. but now they re thinking the only way to beat her is tochris don t want to beat her with a guy who can beat her. they want to beat her with a guy who can t beat, which is nonsense, that s the problem. i think it is, also, they would like to raise money off the specter of hillary. i think that s part of part of that s what s going on. i think president obama still scares them, but after all, he can t run again. washington s tied up and in gridlock. the president, it s a little hard to get people as worked up and as scared, perhaps, as they were a few years ago, but hillary scares the heck out of them, so they want to raise her
for one of its tea party heroes like rand paul? here with me now is the author of the great book collision 2016. dan, let s talk about what you call the subterranean campaign of 2012 and what it offers us in the future. we think of the campaign as 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 underlying powerful forces that affect 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.
rockefeller. then getting killed with barry goldwater running against lyndon johnson. then went wild in 72 and ran george mcgovern. that s the year the democrats got killed. so then the pendulum goes. the party base gets pushed aside and then build up like steam and come roaring to the surface. obama won in 2008 over hillary clinton because the opponents of the iraq war had had it with the party leaders who played it safe and backed the war. i believe the republican base will do the same in 2016. they put up with george bush the first. and now are going to come loaded for bear with the rate for 2016. so i predict the hard right is going to take over the republican party in 2016 and the nomination is going to rand paul. you watch. this is what i do for a living. that s hardball for now.
paul? here with me now is the author of the great book collision 2016. dan, let s talk about what you call the subterranean campaign of 2012 and what it offers us in the future. we think of the campaign as 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