this republican party establishment is in disarray. that s the story that the donald trump surge seems to tell. but, man, y all are kind of running the board in the rest of the country. you know, i would say, nationally, we re a little disfuncti disfunctional. and that is not unusual. this has been a cycle that we ve talked about before on your other show. donald trump has changed the rule and so have the stations and the media coverage. the folks like myself that do this for a living, we were expecting a regular campaign had built the databases, done all the new social media, learned our lessons from obama whipping us twice on how to do voter contact, and then donald trump gets in it and turns it into a national election. so we were looking for the rick perries, the scott walkers, the bobby jindals, all to probably still be on the stage now. they re all gone and trump has sucked the oxygen out of this race right now. and made it a national race courtesy a little bit of nbc
media and we re discussing them because they re clearly news worthy, well, shucks, you shouldn t have said them. megyn: he s suggesting over the course of the election the conservatives candidates have had it particularly bad but the mainstream media particularly enjoys tearing down the herman cains of the world, the rick perries and so on, that they re getting it worse than the democrats would get it. absolutely and that s sort of a given and conservatives, most voters understand that s the case. we re talking about decades of bias against ronald reagan, pror trade as a huge dunca, dan quayle, whose career was destroyed because of the potato spelling, george bush, portrayed as jeshes and idiots and destroying the country. we know there s a built-in bias. rick santorum, it s what he is pointing out. again, the question is how to point it out. i m not sure this is quite the way to do it or the time
and debt collectors. the republicans are saying no. who has the better side of that argument politically? politically the white house believes the president is going run against a do nothing congress and he has done so effectively. affected his approval rating so far in the battle back and forth as we continue to live on the precipice every few months in washington of the next crisis. back to the campaign, i think republicans come back to what is the starkest difference between president obama and the nominee and that is where the argument for the newt gingrichs and the rick perries and they say that they are more of a stark change, a different change than mitt romney. and they are hoping to gain steam that way. so far it hasn t taken off, especially not here in new hampshire. chris: a.b., do you think that the white house is playing between the payroll tax last month and now the fight over the consumer financial protection bureau, do you think that they are winning on that? i th
who has the better side of that argument politically? politically the white house believes the president is going run against a do nothing congress and he has done so effectively. affected his approval rating so far in the battle back and forth as we continue to live on the precipice every few months in washington of the next crisis. back to the campaign, i think republicans come back to what is the starkest difference between president obama and the nominee and that is where the argument for the newt gingrichs and the rick perries and they say that they are more of a stark change, a different change than mitt romney. and they are hoping to gain steam that way. so far it hasn t taken off, especially not here in new hampshire. chris: a.b., do you think that the white house is playing between the payroll tax last month and now the fight over the consumer financial protection bureau, do you think that they are winning on that? i think that we will see in the months to come whether o
and debt collectors. the republicans are saying no. who has the better side of that argument politically? politically the white house believes the president is going run against a do nothing congress and he has done so effectively. affected his approval rating so far in the battle back and forth as we continue to live on the precipice every few months in washington of the next crisis. back to the campaign, i think republicans come back to what is the starkest difference between president obama and the nominee and that is where the argument for the newt gingrichs and the rick perries and they say that they are more of a stark change, a different change than mitt romney. and they are hoping to gain steam that way. so far it hasn t taken off, especially not here in new hampshire. chris: a.b., do you think that the white house is playing between the payroll tax last month and now the fight over the consumer financial protection bureau, do you think that they are winning on that? i th