i wouldn t read too much into this election. brad, how do you read it? how intense is this pushback from the righties going to be on christie? i m not surprised at it at all. the stakes are really high, and the folks on the right, the tea party, the ted cruzs of the world, the rand pauls, they believe in a republicanism and a conservatism that stands on absolute what they call principle, that s unyielding and uncompromising. i don t think anyone out there in tv land should confuse chris christie with anything but a right wing republican. maybe he s trying to position himself differently, but he s anti-gay, anti-increasing the minimum wage. he s a union buster, he s a bully. let me just add, for some reason there seems to be every few years this fascination, you know, with people who are bullies, they re chief executives in the new york area, they were going to run for president. jonathan capehart has a great post just now on the washington
corporations which she was very suspicious of or big government bureaucracy. she was a union buster. they didn t like her for that. and for that, you know, her enemies today rejoice. there is no common standing of respect for the dead among these people. that doesn t compute with them. bill: it was it took me aback because i m trying to think back to the death of ronald reagan in america. i don t think we saw that kind of public vitriol. i mean, i m sure there was some private stuff but i don t remember that kind of disrespect. do you remember it back then? no. i was at president reagan s funeral. i worked for president reagan as a young speech writer in the white house for domestic policy at the time. and reagan, you know, transformed the country made a lot of people angry. in the end, most in america kind of gave him a nod. okay, we didn t agree with you maybe on everything. you know we had iran contra and all this stuff, you really helped us get through a difficult time. not p
would have been glad to see it if these people are still so angry about what they are angry about, she probably did what she set out to do. to lift britain out of the economic malaise that it was in. to reassert british military authority when needed. and to stand strongly with the united states against the soviet threat. she did all of those things. she was vehemently against collectism of any kind. whether it was in big corporations which she was very suspicious of or big government bureaucracy. she was a union buster. they didn t like her for that. and for that, you know, her enemies today rejoice. there is no common standing of respect for the dead among these people. that doesn t compute with them. bill: it was it took me aback because i m trying to think back to the death of ronald reagan in america. i don t think we saw that kind of public vitriol. i mean, i m sure there was some private stuff but i don t remember that kind of
corporations which she was very suspicious of or big government bureaucracy. she was a union buster. they didn t like her for that. and for that, you know, her enemies today rejoice. there is no common standing of respect for the dead among these people. that doesn t compute with them. bill: it was it took me aback because i m trying to think back to the death of ronald reagan in america. i don t think we saw that kind of public vitriol. i mean, i m sure there was some private stuff but i don t remember that kind of disrespect. do you remember it back then? no. i was at president reagan s funeral. i worked for president reagan as a young speech writer in the white house for domestic policy at the time. and reagan, you know, transformed the country made a lot of people angry. in the end, most in america kind of gave him a nod. okay, we didn t agree with you maybe on everything. you know we had iran contra and all this stuff, you really helped us get through a difficult time. not p
michigan, charles, what do you make of that? and ben makes the great point. the unions feel like their back has been against the walls and have for a number of years. in michigan, this is the way we can be competitive. listen, everyone talks about the great comeback in detroit in the auto sector, that s a mirage. michigan s in trouble, detroit is in trouble and this is how they compete on the national scale, ultimately, a global scale. neil: dagen? very significant that this is happening and by the way, this is just the right to not have to pay union dues if you don t want to belong to a union first and foremost. neil: and you got that. very significant that it s happening in the birthplace of the u.a.w. it could spread aoss the midwest if this gains momentum and if you look back. by the way those are not sunglasses. i m sorry. and what is he doing? and i think he s a union buster. he s not nothing, not shouting. not him. and exactly. but if you look back on t