anti-american demonstrations in bangladesh among other places. hundreds of protesters gathered near the embassy, carrying banners and chanting anti-american slogans. some even burning an effigy symbolizing a cop in a president obama. as it seems like this get repeated across the world this week, michael reagan says that someone needs to address this country and very soon. if obama refuses to be president, maybe mitt romney needs to start acting like he is and address the nation. joining me now is michael reagan. chairman of the reagan group for reagan.com. welcome back. what do you mean by that? what i meant is going back to 1983. there are things going on all over the world, especially in the middle east. ronald reagan took the time to go to the oval office and address the nation and really put america at ease. with what was going on in the middle east, talk to us about
instead of speaking to us and framing what we are seeing on the screen. helping us understand and appreciate the significance. the amount ronald reagan was running against jimmy carter. he had much of the same problem. i always hear the conservatives talk about the mainstream liberal media. i don t remember when they weren t liberal. ronald reagan bought time on television. he bought airtime to be able to address a nation and address issues so we could get his word out. not just state by state. and he started doing that under jimmy carter. i would suggest that mitt romney do the same. even if it is a five-minute five minute time for a 50 minute by time. start addressing the nation and telling us where he would take us and what we would do. but until that time, until somebody does that come i don t think things are going to get better in the middle east because we have a president who is more concerned about going on david letterman and holding accountable the people who
the tax deal a moral injustice, and that is a term being used by many who say they oppose these tax cuts. that s what they call them. for the rich. so do the rich have a moral obligation, a moral obligation to pay more than they already do? michael reagan is the chairman of the reagan group, reagan.com and a political consultant, and leslie marshall is a syndicated radio talk show host and fox news contributor. michael, let me start with you on that because the argument has sort of spilled out of, okay, you know, is it good for the economy, what s it going to do for the deficit and so on to there s been sort of a shirking of one s moral responsibility by the rich in supporting this tax deal. there s no shirking of responsibility. the rich already pay more in taxes than anybody else. the poor don t pay taxes at all. the rich are talking about small businesses that create jobs, if you will, and the reality of it is if you take it away from the
you have an impeccable, unblemished past. i remember looking at chief justice john roberts of the supreme court and researching all his papers when he got nominated. he could do it. i don t think he s got one blemish on his record, but that s so unusual. most people have behaved like idiots, said stupid things. i don t know that they ve dabbled in witchcraft, but is that the prism through which we should be viewing not just christine o donnell, but all these politicians? yeah, it s interesting. we ve made politics personal anymore. it s really about personal things. and when you make it personal, you get nothing accomplished. i mean, my dad knew this back in the 1960s. when you get into personal attacks, you ll never accomplish anything. that s why ronald reagan tried to find the good in everybody. that s why he was able to accomplish the things that he accomplished. and if i can go back to an earlier story real quick, megyn, i was teased and bullied when i was in first and second gr
she s polling 15 points behind coons, and that s not the direction she wants this going. it s incumbent for those who showed up in the primaries to show up in the general election, and it s incumbent upon the republican party to get behind her. ronald reagan always took the side of that person who won the primary. and you might remember way back in the 1960s, was it, ronald reagan was polling about 8, 9, 10 points behind the governor of the state of california back then, pat brown. surged ahead and never looked back and, ultimately, became the president of the united states of america. it s a tough uphill battle, but it s incumbent on the party to coalesce behind her to support her in this. megyn: how much can the party do in the wake of, you know, this stuff is continuing to come out they can shut up! megyn: the witch well, they can t shut bill maher up, nobody can. and he seems to like chris o donnell. every time i ve heard him talk about her, he says she s a nice