i don t think i just maintain that sarah palin is not serious about running in 2012, and i think that s going to be a big letdown for the net roots crowd. it certainly is, but here s the numbers, 48% of them want palin. 11% want ron paul and 7% santorum and romney at 9% and huckabee and mike pence only at 1%. so that s how it breaks down. is this how do you view this, todd webster? well, sarah palin, çlook, ia fascination to the tea partiers and to the tabloids, but for mainstream america she s the kiss of death. just last week in new hampshire the republican senate candidate kelly ayotte had a 12-point lead over her democratic candidate paul holtz, palin comes in to new hampshire and endorses her and drops by nine percentage points and it s a three-point race. what s more interesting is the fact that sarah palin would be a dream candidate for president
what a horrible thing. ed rendell, what are you saying? well, i think there are some shows. i wouldn t put him on jerry springer either, right? look, you can i think the president of the united states has to go on serious shows, and the view you can make a case that the view is a serious show and it also rocks and rolls a little bit. i m not sure he has to go on the view to be open to questions. todd webster, what s the strategy here for the president? why is he doing this? first president to do a daytime talk show. welly sutton famously said that the reason he robbed banks because that s where the money s.from a media strategy, he s got to go where the audience is and reach out to new voters and new viewers, and i think it s absolutely warranted. what s even more interesting today is that it was announced he s now playing a starring role in the madden 2011 video game where if you win the championship, you get to go to the white house with your team and pull out the
me fired up tonight. the president, he went face-to-face with republican leadership behind closed doors today, and on the agenda the bush tax cuts. gosh, what are we going to do? democrats are about to step on to a political minefield, in my opinion. they need to step up and show some intestinal fortitude, guts, whatever you want to call it, and end the bush tax cuts for the top 2%. we have had enough. the republican party is ready to go to the firewall on the issue over the august recess. house republicans will fight this tax increase with everything we ve got. there is one party who believes that now is the time, as mike just said, to raise taxes in the depth of a horrific recession, and there s one party that doesn t. on january 1st, 2011, america is facing the largest tax increase in our history. so i think the american people understand that you can t raise taxes in the middle of a very soft economy, and if they attempt to raise taxes, they will wreck the little
party, that the right nominees on the court are now radical i d logs. well, when a former republican can say that you know how far things have shifted. we need as many perspectives as we can. roy sekoff, always a pleasure. great to have you with us tonight. let s get rapid fire response from our panel on these stories tonight. proof bailouts work. how about this? general motors announces it s repaid all its government loan money five years ahead of schedule. the arizona state legislature passes a bill that says president obama, well, will have to show his birth certificate if he wants to be on the state ballot in 2012. michael steele under fire again after filing reports show that the rnc dropped more than 300 grand on a conference in hawaii and more than 700 grand in office supplies? with us now, democratic strategist todd webster and also with us tonight, heidi harris, radio talk show host in las vegas. all right. let s todd, i know you ve worked in offices all your life.
opinion. it s dividing americans and it sets the table for racial profiling and all it does is put race against race. it s dangerous. it s immoral. although according to a new rasmussen poll, 70% of likely voters in arizona are supporting this measure. even though 53% of the voters are worried that immigrants civil rights could be violated. now, we are entering, i think, here a new era. an era of what we could call confrontational legislation. if the righties throw it up there enough, who knows you might get a lawmaker to go along with it and get a few others in the coffee of tea party to say, whey don t we do that? we don t like obama anyway. if the president of the united states, if he were ever a community organizer, now is the time. one thing about this conversation that we re having in america right now, have you noticed, everybody is an expert on illegal immigration. everybody knows what we have to do and we all sound tough, but i think as americans we need to understa