other day is the opening salvo in the primary fight for 2016. he may be out of touch with the american people on this issue but not out of touch with the energy and the base of the republican party. and that fight is going to go on straight through the republican nominating process. i mean, michael knows better than i do, that torque right now, that division within the republican party is real. what rick santorum is doing now is staking out ground early on the issue of gay marriage. i agree with that. the people in your party who are the craziest, the mourdock, the akins. i think sometimes he s smart about blue collar issues, rick santorum. they are the emblems, more and more of your party. you can t say these are my crazy aunts in the closet, don t open that door. the democrats are going to open that door. i know you re laughing. they re going to open that door and say look who s in here. it s rick santorum. they re not crazy people. why is it that people cannot have a convictio
republicans. i didn t disparage my far right nor did i disparage those, you know, who are moderate. the view of the party should be one that embraces and allows this kind of discussion, this organic discussion. so i just reject out of hand this notion that, you know, i ve got to now get on board because democrats are tripping over themselves to get in front of the supreme court before they hear a case on gay marriage. there are fundamental issues with respect to this subject that are still very important to people out there. you just don t dismiss them because you think, you know, that s what we should be doing right now. okay. let me go back to mike, michael feldman. can your party cartoonize, the republican party continue to do it using the akins, mourdocks, the rick santorums? honestly, if you look at the last presidential cycle, we didn t have to do much work in that area, okay? the primary process was very destructive. if you look at mitt romney s candidacy, by the time he bec
party that s taking place. what rick santorum said the other day is the opening salvo in the primary fight for 2016. he may be out of touch with the american people on this issue but not out of touch with the energy and the base of the republican party. and that fight is going to go on straight through the republican nominating process. i mean, michael knows better than i do, that torque right now, that division within the republican party is real. what rick santorum is doing now is staking out ground early on the issue of gay marriage. i agree with that. the people in your party who are the craziest, the mourdock, the akins. i think sometimes he s smart about blue collar issues, rick santorum. they are the emblems, more and more of your party. you can t say these are my crazy aunts in the closet, don t open that door. the democrats are going to open that door. i know you re laughing. they re going to open that door and say look who s in here. it s roick santorum. they re not cra
one that embraces and allows this kind of discussion, this organic discussion. so i just reject out of hand this notion that, you know, i ve got to now get on board because democrats are tripping over themselves to get in front of the supreme court before they hear a case on gay marriage. there are fundamental issues with respect to this subject that are still very important to people out there. you just don t dismiss them because you think, you know, that s what we should be doing right now. okay. let me go back to mike, michael feldman. can your party cartoonize, the republican party continue to do it using the akins, mourdocks, the rick santorums? honestly, if you look at the last presidential cycle, we didn t have to do much work in that area, okay? the primary process was very destructive. if you look at mitt romney s candidacy, by the time he became the nominee in his own right, he had to shift back to the center and take responsibility for a lot of what he had to say in the