there are a lot of members of the republican conference, who all they are, are scared incumbents and they don t want to lose their seat. the only people who are challenging them at this point in their primary races are the conservatives. they re from the hard right. so if they let s say mark levin, a very influential conservative, you know, radio guy, says, well, paul ryan is a squish and republican x should not have voted for him, some guy decides he s going to run against him in a primary, that s the thing these guys don t want. that makes them feel like, maybe i shouldn t vote for them. i don t want to be guy that gets primaried out of my seat. let me ask you the apocalypse question here. i keep thinking, if nobody s viable, including mr. viable, paul ryan is not viable or he won t run, that the fallback position is that john boehner has to stay speaker. is there so much turmoil among republicans right now that maybe that s not viable either? conservatives have already said th
talk? i stand by my statement that i wrote, that you have, and i misspoke and i apologize. okay, colorado is a state that has you talk to a lot of republicans, more and more pessimistic about their chances there than you would believe. i have a feeling a state you get the sense i had perry, people tell me because the colorado republicans that have been offered up have just not been in sync. what was that? what was that? the arizona secretary of state asking for the birth of certificate. why is this issue coming out. bizarre pandering to a conspiratorial base. also going to vote for republican x or mitt romney, bad politics. also this is going to hurt in a state where latino vote is growing, minority vote is growing. people from california coming there, this is not going to be helpful with the kind of swing
i think it s also a reflection of how far to the right to republican party has drifted. romney is just too accept tryst for a lot of people in this party deny centrist. and even though in terms of a general election he seems absolutely the strongest candidate, his views, his experience, especially his business experience in such a time of economic turmoil, it doesn t seem to cut it with republican voters. so it s an odd phenomenon, and i think it must be very challenging for the people trying to nominate the best person to confront obama. jon: well, and speaking of mr. obama, i mean, his poll numbers are very low, lower than jimmy carter s were at this point during his presidency. it should be a lot of observers say a slam dunk for republican x, any name to win the white house. and yet people like mitch daniels who flirted with a run himself, he s saying you can t just depend on people s dissatisfaction with the president to propel a republican into the white house. no.
quarter get subsidies? i think it would be 78% no. you re saying fres sure is the only thing that works. look, here s republican x or democrat y voting for this, that s going to make them change their vote. we could have gotten rid of these subsidies when both houses of congress were run by democrats and president obama suggested it. the subsidies are not necessary. the only companies we should be subsidizing, let me repeat again, the new ones. they need a little time to grow, that need a little help for them to be in position to produce a significant amount of production. those companies we should be subsidizing. with everything, loan