chances of winning that missouri seat and looking for other seats they might be able to pick up instead in their attempt to take control of the senate. could tommy thompson win wisconsin. maybe? please, this is a mess. i can t believe todd akin is staying in. so yeah, todd akin is staying in, not getting out of the race. that s their first big problem. the other part of this strategy, remember i said it s a win-win. the first win the second win is even worse the way that s fallen apart. and this idea of casting todd akin as the one crazy guy thing, that part failed even harder. this week was supposed to be a ceremonial sacrifice. of todd akin as a way to free the party of the taint of abortion extremism, everybody talk about how crazy todd akin is and denounce him together, and when we get rid of him, it will look like we got rid of our crazy problem. look like we re not crazy. that has not worked.
. 45 past the hour. welcome grand ole opry. back to morning joe. here with us national affairs columnist for the national view john funds co-author of who s counting, how fraud steres and bureaucrats put your vote at risk. if republicans get a chance to tell akin to exit the race to get somebody different for the general election, the deadline may be tomorrow, should they do it? it s not going to happen. things don t move that quickly. he s staying in, spent millions to get this nomination, he s going to say i can recover, memories are short. really? mitt romney? should mitt romney try to push him from the race? only if he would succeed and he won t do that because he won t succeed. okay. there s that. okay. coming up senator claire mccaskill. hs who s count iing
here in new york city. great to have you visiting us. pleasure to be here. and john is a political comedian, will cain and fdorian nice to have each and every when of you. good morning. interesting to think it s been a month since trayvon martin killed. and two weeks since white people heard about it. the story was not that well-known in the media. on social media it was making the rounds and finally everyone else picked it up about two weeks ago. of course it s our starting point, thousands are expected to make their way to san sford, florida. honoring trayvon martin, and the rally will begin at 4:00 p.m. outside the first united methodist church and the crowds are going to make their way to the civic center which is roughly a half mile away and that s where the city s going to hold a town hall. there are reports that trayvon s parents are expected to speak there, that march comes right after a candlelight vigil held yesterday for martin. there were songs and
back to hardball. now for the sideshow. first up, southern strategy. newt gingrich lost two primaries in his backyard this week. and since then, he s been ignore calls from his own party to get out of the race. newt s got his own rationale for staying in, and here s the reaction he got from the folks at the daily show last night. let s watch. rick santorum won alabama and mississippi, and mitt romney won hawaii and america samoa. here s a little pneumonic device to help you remember. places you can get to in a winnebago go to santorum. places that require a jet or a yacht go to romney. why won t gingrich quit?! because if you think about it, he s actually kind of winning. between santorum and myself, we will get over two-thirds of the delegates. right, but you don t get to add santorum s stuff to yours to make it sound impressive.
you know, you were a prosecutor. a good defense attorney. one time a kid stole my card, he got convicted, but a public defender came up and said in court, do you know a guy named joe in court? and i said, no, i don t know a guy named joe. so she could go back to the kid and he said, joe told me to take the card. but doesn t he as the defendant here have to come up with some even delusional theory, if you re caught, basically, there s no reason to be in the race. but i don t believe in his heart of hearts that newt gingrich actually believes that. i think he wants the attention of staying in, everyone listens to him. what about his speech last night? he was talking about all these different issues. he loves having the audience. the and that s why he s staying in. he s too smart to believe he has a chance. by the way, his other issues are the $2.50 gas. he s like a lot, i don t like to fight with the la ruchies, but lyndon la reusch will come on television and spend $75,000 to