go back to the founders, think of dr. mar tin tin luther king there was an uplifting, beyond rhetoric, there was a theme of, our job is not finished until our gay brothers and sisters have equal rights under the law. this was a bigger moment, i think, than a lot of people initially gave it credit for. i just felt this was a president who has found his voice, who feels empowered and knows, as robert said, that he s not going to get everything. i think you were saying in the earlier hour, he didn t campaign on climate change, this is going to be hard and won t get done. he didn t campaign on gay rights. he didn t get behind gay rights for four years until joe biden basically outside him. exactly. at the same time, i think on that stage what s that? that goes a bit far. we can talk about that at another time. on the issue, on the issue. with re-election, he is thinking much more broadly and
months he will not talk about obamacare or defend the stimulus program. now he has an economy he cannot talk about and a few months ago it looked line we were on the way to a strong economy but that is dimmed so he finds it difficult to touch on a theme that will win swing voters and knock off romney in the fall. the divisive theme of, we can t go back to the hideous republican economic policies he is embracing and he will stick by that saying he is the champion of the middle-class and they will take us back to the depression again. what i wonder, in several months, if he doesn t have to, because he seems to take a more presidential tone and he is trying to rev up the students before summer break, and i wonder about his tone in the weeks and months and see what it does to the polling.
the american people would say, you know what? i ll trust you. but instead of taking responsibility, he tries to shift it to congress. it hurts congress, but it is dragging the president s numbers down as well. megyn: that s interesting, because we heard him today reiterate his oft-spoken theme of, you know, we ve done a lot, but we had the japanese tsunami, and we had the arab spring, and the situation in europe, and while all of those may, indeed, have been factors, you seem to be saying the voters don t want to hear about that anymore. they re tired of blame games. they want someone to stand up, offer solutions, demonstrate results, admit when they make a mistake and then move on. and they don t hear that from this administration. not at all. megyn: frank luntz, thank you so much for being here. pleasure. megyn: all the best. more coming in on that breaking news from the west coast, the hunt for a man suspected in the shooting deaths of three people. someone has been shot dead by
that may take a few days so we ll still keep going with courtroom football. see if they resume business for real with a real league years in the next couple of days. and turning to politics now. one republican player is in and one heads for the bench. mississippi governor haley barbour says he was not seek the 2012 presidential nomination. he says he lacks, quote, the fire in the belly to run. but texas congressman ron paul plans to announce today in iowa that he s forming an exploratory committee. paul is favorite among libertarians and also tea party members. and president obama took a turn as the easter bunny s assistant yesterday as 30,000 kids and parents turned out for the annual easter egg roll. the weather could have not been more perfect for the white house lawn event. it was great weather. and mr. obama was hands on the leader as he helped kids get their eggs across the finish line and then high-fived the winner. keeping with the first lady s theme of, let s move, the k
the little technical this little technical problems of the law or the interpretation of particular statues. it s much broader questions about the constitution. and you know, ed, you and i are in many ways just as qualified to make those kind of decisions as somebody who spent his life in a law firm or even as an appellate judge. so i think it would be great to nominate somebody who s not a lawyer. that was a theme of remember the movie nashville? yep. that was part of the theme of that movie. i know it s a dream. this would be guaranteed filibuster stuff, though, wouldn t it? yeah, it would do it. probably three quarters of the senate would filibuster that one. i think obviously the point you re making is that his diversified background would give the court much more of a broad insight into how americans are living their lives and how the supreme court can at least that s what i m taking from your writing. you re right. i think we can get part of the