Chicago. Well have much more on the early voting later on in the show. But we start with tonights lead. Mitt romneys mourdock mess. Senate candidate Richard Mourdocks god intended rape comments are now threatening to undermine mitt romneys careful effort to appeal to voters as moderate mitt. Desperate to hide the extreme republican positions on Womens Health, romney is just wishing and hoping this will all go away. But someone forgot to tell the press corps this morning in ohio. Governor, do you wish senator mourdock would pull that ad . Thank you. Have a good day. You, too. Thats me . Have a great day. Thank you. Have a good day. But please dont ask be about god intending rape anymore. This is awkward for mitt romney after all at this hour romneys ad endorsing mourdock is still running in indiana and the campaign has no plans to pull support. And while governor romney tries to hide his own party is trying to keep the story out of the airways. Hes in a close election and congressman mi
Shaking their noisemakers. Thought you had seen the last of Rick Santorum and the rest of those characters from the primaries . Not so. We have paul ryan and his personhood amendment aboard. A republican platform giving 14th amendment rights, including the right to property, to a fertilized human egg. Who cares about the woman. Nine days to go and none of the right wing men are getting off. But the big question is how many women want to stay aboard this clown car for the next four or years and how funny will it be when these characters are actually in charge . Our guests are alex wagner, star of msnbcs now each day at noon eastern, and terry oneill, president of the National Organization for women. Thank you for joining us. I want to go through some things to set this up. President obama is keeping the pressure on, as you can see in the last days of the campaign, and linking mitt romney to Richard Mourdock thats the guy from whats that state, wisconsin, indiana on jay leno last night.
A republican platform giving 14th amendment rights, including the right to property, to a fertilized human egg. Who cares about the woman. 12 days to go and none of the right wing men are getting off. But the big question is how many women want to stay aboard this clown car for the next four or years and how funny will it be when these characters are actually in charge . Our guests are alex wagner, star of msnbcs now each day at noon eastern, and terry oneill, president of the National Organization for women. Thank you for joining us. I want to go through some things to set this up. Lets listen to the president. I dont know how these guys come up with these ideas. Let me make a very simple proposition. Rape is rape. It is a crime. The second thing thats underscored, though, is this is exactly why you dont want a bunch of politicians, mostly male, making decisions about Womens Health care decisions. Well, that went over pretty well out there. Thats a nonpartisan crowd generally. The pre
you like the war in iraq, romney is your guy. it just seems without being in any way comical about, because it s nothing to laugh about, people die in wars, there s always a war that the neocons are looking forward to. they re always pushing they never settle down and say let s take time out for a decade without a war, and now it s iran. we all know that neither party can go to war, but the way they go to war, what conditions they set and how they deal with the consequences are really critical, and it seems to me the president is more to be trusted for understanding the consequences, tom ricks. powell was kind of an eisenhower republican. guess what? so is barack obama. eisenhower kept us out of vietnam. he explicitly said i don t want to fight wars kept us out of suez, too. libya was an eisenhower type operation. don t only the hidden hand. yeah. only do the things that the united states is uniquely available to provide. so provide things like
obama this mornings, he cited mitt romney s foreign policy as a major concern. this monday we saw romney present himself as a moderate emphasizing peace and diplomacy. for the past year and a half, however, romney has courted the far rights and the neocons of his party with his hawkish rhetoric. secretary powell pointed out the obvious, it s not clear who we would get if romney was elected. powell praised president obama s handling of foreign policy over the last four years. let s listen. i also saw the president get us out of one war, start to get us out of a second war, and did not get us into any new wars, and, finally, i think that the actions he has taken with respect to protecting us from terrorism have been very, very solid. and so i think we ought to keep on the track that we are on. well, later today the president acknowledged the endorsement by powell at a rally in richmond. let s watch. i was proud and humbled to learn that we have colin powell s support in this campai