appeaser, i don t think that just rings true. i don t think it hits the mark. i tell the story of what the president did on egypt, libya, the bin laden raid. i think again and again he came across maybe not every minute of those crisis, but at the end that deliberative and devicive and got a good outcome without a loot of expenses being paid by the u.s. if the romney campaign chooses to engage on that level, the president can start telling that story and he ll make a pretty good case. mitt romney will have a hard time refuting with just his empty rhetoric that republicans always throw against democrats as being weak on national defense. do you see it that way? do you see it as a generic republican versus democrat template that they are trying to apply here whether or not it fits mitt romney or whether or
republican lieutenant governor and for four republican senators. in wisconsin, republicans have already lost majority control of the state senate in part because of the first round of elections held last summer in which two republicans were ousted. before their decision to strip union rights republicans had a big majority in the wisconsin state senate. thanks to those recalls and the resignation of another senator facing a recall, wisconsin senate is tied. they have split control between republicans and democrats. there s not a majority leader, there are co-leaders. with four more recalls to come in wisconsin, republicans might lose more seats in the senate they may lose the lieutenant governor and the governor. this is the red hot political context for the presidential campaign happening. it s thought of as the most important of tuesday s contest. in part because it s rick
not it fits barack obama. they are hoping people associate republicans in a positive way with foreign policy strength? they associate democrat with weakness even if it doesn t fit these men very well? they re going back to playbook 101, which is call the other party weak. there s a new book called drift, you talk about ronald reagan losing the first primaries and he came out and started talking tougher on national security and starting saying things that weren t necessarily true about the soviet military being bigger and having more money spent on it than the u.s. military and presto, he started winning primaries. not enough to get the nomination in 76, but it helped him in 1980. i think they see the same old playbook, you get up there and say things that might not be true. that the president wants to apologize or is an appeaser and
and reproductive right, i m amazed that statement from the president to planned parenthood supporters did not get blanket coverage. in any case, as democrats have supported legal abortion and contraception acts and women s health in the past as they have supported those thing frs a long time, democrats have been shy about campaigning on that. as you can see from the president s remarks, they are not shy about it anymore when republicans put them front and center into 2012 politics. the president taking advantage of what the republicans have done there. we are starting to see the contours of the barack obama re-election campaign. you see it in the way they are going after republicans for what is seen as the republican agenda. you see it in the way that president obama is very enthusiastically engaging with his most enthusiastic supporters. this is the way the president will run for re-election. we re also seeing a little bit
rick santorum in wisconsin by 13 points. now, at this point in the campaign, rick santorum losing by less to president obama might be important to republicans deciding between these two guys in the primary. if the best case scenario for the republicans is losing the general election by 13 points, if that s the best case scena o scenario, the big picture for republicans in t state looks bad. the republican scott walker is facing a historic recall election this year is not just because some of his political opponents don t like the cut of his jib. it s because tons of wisconsin voters are out raged by what walker was done in governor. they needed to elect more than half a million signatures in order to trigger the recall election. they turned in nearly twice that number. they turned in more than 930,000 signatures. after a lot of fussing about fact checking and due diligence, after they launched a special