conservatives, republicans, southerners that hey, yes, this is a symbol of southern pride, but it s been used since 1962 as a symbol of resistance to integration. and it s been abused and i think it s kind of in some ways an easy symbol to go after. you don t have to look at guns. you don t have to look at other, you know deeper aspects of institutional racism but it may have opened the door finally, to some more substantive discussions about the inequality that continues in america. i was struck in nikki haley s speech on monday where she linked the horrifying charleston shooting with how south carolina has progressed and the things one of the things she pointed to was how the state reacted after the shooting of walter scott. and they had when the cell phone images came showing the
between them and focus first on getting back the senate before we go after the presidency. rick: doug, what about that? this was a president who called himself a political pragmatist and ran as a centrist, the first time around and, even ran that way the second time around. tried to. and he gives in speech on monday, that totally sort of, you know, rips the band-aid off and allows everybody to see him for who he really has been all along. which is, a devoted liberal, a proud liberal, does he help the republicans moving forward? as ron is suggesting? anyone who followed the president knows the issues he talked about in the inauguration are the issues he talked about in the first and second campaign and he talked about climate change for some time now and talked about immigration reform and talked about strengthening the middle class. if those are liberal issues i ll take em. because i think those are issues that actually the most of the country embraced and so if people want to t
they ve got a bunch of people from very safe districts, and john is right, it would be very hard for democrats to take back the house until after 2020 because all those districts are gerrymandered, and, you know, if you can t take back the house, you certainly can t annihilate the republicans. it was a kind of loopy expression, and i think if john was being honest, he d say he wouldn t have advised the speaker to say it. is victimhood now a republican meme? now republicans are all victims too? i know the democrats are sometimes truly victims, but are you selling the fact, hey, we re getting beat up by these bullies. is this the new thing, complaining, crying? do you think it works politically? i think the president s speech on monday did a wonderful thing for republicans. it got them united and fired up. he said nothing that anybody in any red states would say he s trying to reach out to me. it was a liberal speech for liberal interest groups, and it did nothing for republicans exc
hard for democrats to take back the house until after 2020 because all those districts are gerrymandered, and, you know, if you can t take back the house, you certainly can t annihilate the republicans. it was a kind of loopy expression, and i think if john was being honest, he d say he wouldn t have advised the speaker to say it. is victimhood now a republican meme? now republicans are all victims too? i know the democrats are sometimes truly victims, but are you selling the fact, hey, we re getting beat up by these bullies. is this the new thing, complaining, crying? do you think it works politically? i think the president s speech on monday did a wonderful thing for republicans. it got them united and fired up. he said nothing that anybody in any red states would say he s trying to reach out to me. it was a liberal speech for liberal interest groups, and it did nothing for republicans except unite them. i thought it was a good thing.
you can t take back the house, you certainly can t annihilate the republicans. it was a kind of loopy expression, and i think if john was being honest, he d say he wouldn t have advised the speaker to say it. is victimhood now a republican meme? now republicans are all victims too? i know the democrats are sometimes truly victims but are you selling the fact hey we re getting beat up by these bullies. is this the new thing, complaining crying in do you think it works politically? i think the president s speech on monday did a wonderful thing for republicans. it got them united and fired up. he said nothing that anybody in any red states would say. he s trying to reach out to me. it was a liberal speech for a liberal interest groups and it did nothing for republicans except uniewunite them i though was a good thing. like when he said some people are justifiably skeptical about what big government can achieve. is that one of your big battle cries? listen, everybody understands th