ping at the l.a. home of ryan murphy is in the works. joining me to talk about this is joe, president of the human rights campaign and obama co-chair. nice to see you this morning. nice to see you. the president s campaign launching this effort to get the lgbt community more involved in his reelection. if he wins, if he wins, what will the community want in return for that help? obviously the president has made big strides in gaining support since coming out in full support of marriage equality but what do they want to see? we ll continue on the journey we have been on with this president over the last few years as you showed in the video, we ve made historic gains from the passage of the hate crimes bill, repeal of don t ask don t tell, of course the president s commitment to support full marriage equality,
president and with members of congress, people do change. there are members who voted for implementation of don t ask don t tell, who then voted to repeal it. voting one way in 1993 then in favor of repeal in 2010. it is possible. is it frustrating? absolutely. is there good news about romney? do you have any reason to believe he will change? oh, anybody can. do you think he will change? i m not going to i think this is more a question of mitt romney s character than a question about marriage. he didn t stand up for the gi guy who felt he needed to leave the campaign when there was uprising from the right. he didn t stand up for the gay soldier from iraq who asked a question at the debate when the audience booed. and he is not standing up today. and i think it is much more a question about his character and about who he is than it is about his evolution on marriage. and i think that the mamerican people will come to see that.
it happened with the last congress on the repeal of don t ask don t tell. there were not anecdotal stories where staff members, chief of staff, legislative director did talk to their bosses. this is certainly not going away. polling reflects that, not just the general electorate but my side of the aisle among republicans. more and more republicans do support, not just support, but actually support some sort of status. i agree. you re a good guy but how do you stop the bad guyes. people like under karl rove who go to black clergy men and use this tore electoral votes. how do you stop people from exploiting bigotry? well there s two tracks. the principle track which is do the right thing. the right thing is, don t stand in the way of people. as good conservatives, don t heed upon one s liberty.
there a conservative case for marriage, marriage equality. then the prag na tis em. hey, if you can t say anything nice, don t say anything at all. some did apply that rule in 2010 cycle. which is why you saw more gays vote in 2010. focusing in the economy grab yeah. it is the economy. exit polls, particularly in arizona, michigan, south caroline why, ohio, all show economy is number one issue. if you are not in favor of marriage equality then don t go there. okay. joe, i don t know how you play this or how you do this, but it is important to stop the bad people, the snickerers, gigglers, thinking, here is our chance to go after clara from another point of view, or john test. we will pin them in the next 24 hours. are they with the president or not. tim kaine in virginia. places where they are close electiones. where you can reach the cultural
mickey mantel. and msnbc political analyst. how was senator kelly s audition yesterday on meet the press ? i think she actually left her resume there and was passing it around. that is practically what she was doing there. she was breaking the first rule of being in the big race, which is you don t seem to want the job. you don t campaign for the job. very surprising that she has done that. a couple of days earlier she was on the stump doing a try out in new hampshire. but boy she certainly seems to want the job and you see all these other folks like chris christy all of the sudden stepping up and saying he could be convinced to take this job. this is the first really public