patrick gavin, with a look inside the political playbook. thank you. thank you, guys. coming up next, the red sox fight off the september collapse of the ages. the rays heading into the final game of the season. we ll have the full highlights of last night s games ahead. coming up, rick perry has struggled at times to express himself during the gop debate i think it s fair to say. no doubt. someone out there on the interweb is helping us sort out his words. i cannot wait for a medieval cookie, cinabon and save a pretzel for the gas jets. [ male announcer ] you ve climbed a few mountains during your time.
republican party need him? of course we need him. but i think we are entering into this realm of reminds me of dysfunctional dating. so openly and publicly in a way that s becoming pathetic to which is not available to us. and it s getting heart breaking. my phone rang off the hook last night from people on the west coast who watched. and they said finally someone who stands in the reagan library and sounds like he wasn t handed a note card of old reagan quotes. someone who is living and walking the walk. his reagan references weren t handed to him from researcher or speech writer. he s doing them and living that parallel. he embodies everything that we love about reagan. and nicole, that s what s so depressing about this republican party. if you listen to what some of these candidates are saying right now, it sounds exactly like what guys like me were saying on the campaign trail in 1994.
so he thought i don t need the republicans. you always as the old line, keep your friends close and your enemies closer. have a personal relationship of trust so when tough times arise, you ve already built that relationship. and you know how you can proceed to get people to act in a concerted way. so you talk about building a relationship of trust. have you found that with the conservatives? with the republican conservatives yet? oh, with some, yeah. with a number of people, sure. i m delighted with the number of folks supporting my effort. i saw last weekend in the straw poll in michigan, for instance, the majority of tea partiers supported my effort. that s good news for me. i ve got the largest the plurality of the tea party votes in michigan. that s probably true in new hampshire, as well. and the polls aren t accurate at this stage, but i m getting good support, and i ve got a lot of very conservative folks supporting me and people more towards the middle and across the s
world s economy, and he is trying to show leadership. and this is the thing, nicole, that has been so destructive to the republican party. in suburbs, where you win or lose presidential elections. and among women. for the past five years, the republican party well, actually since president obama was elected. you have to say outrageous things to gain the respect of the glenn becks of the world and the rush limbaughs of the world. rush wasn t always this way, by the way. he used to be a conservative s conservative. but now you ve got to call people traitors, you ve got to go you ve got to be, you know rick perry, for instance. the things he says are just outrageous. bernanke s a traitor, social security is unconstitutional, americans shouldn t elect their senators. michele bauchmann saying you ve
who understands the challenges that america faces and knows how to deal with those. i want to read you something that bill kristol wrote after the last debate which it was a situation that looked like rick perry threw up on himself. but no front runner in a presidential field has ever, we imagine, had as weak a showing as rick perry. it was close to disqualifying two hours for him. and mitt romney, when as all we said and done is could rise to the occasion as president or not. not exactly a going endorsement of you. a little tougher on rick perry, but there s still sort of this view that republicans are trying to figure out whether they want to buy you and take you off the lot, or not. try to get beyond that. i ll talk about my passion for this country.