republicans have been criticizing his relationship, as they saw it, over hurricane sandy with president obama. well, there s an irony here, the irony is chris christie really polls the strongest of any republican in the general election. the question is, will he ever get there in the republican party where you have to veer severely to the right to go through the primary season. i think if chris christie is going to cancel his integrity, he has to do it and not veer too far to the right. people won t take him as credible. jeb bush this week wouldn t rule on the 2016, but this is somebody with a name that can carry package much he s also taking hits lately on the immigration stand and what some people see as a lack of clarity.
still like the 29ing of may changes the story line, then let the story line be changed. why fear that? leslie, if santorum does bow out, what do you think his future might be, vision president or 2016 candidate? well, you know, i wouldn t i wouldn t rule out 2016 candidate. i don t know, my gut is saying he s not going to be the vp on the ticket. quite frankly, i mean, right now mitt romney is just saying who is going appeal to win it? because certainly that is the audience that we are seeing has a lot of or voters that have a lot of power. but when it comes to, you know, romney, and i ve always said this, in the 11th hour democrats do it on the left, republicans do it on the right, most people will get behind that guy. so even those conservatives who view romney as more of a moderate and not a true conservative compared to santorum or gingrich, they will get behind him eventually just like i, a hillary gal, did get behind president barack obama in the 11th hour. mark, leslie
we saw secretary of state clinton issued a statement calling it travesty and hinting maybe the united states needs to go outside of the united nations, which is something, you know, the dastardly bush administration would have done? yeah, even the united nations, said let s get past the politics for this thing and do something effective. almost suggesting that she s inviting the military action. the problem is, i don t think the libyan solution is going to happen here, because that was based on a u.n. security council resolution and any effective are you saying that because the administration will not want to do something like that without a u.n. resolution or because it s just not possible as a practical level? i think barack obama having announced that he s pulling out of afghanistan is not going to send american troops into syria before the november elections, he s just not going to go there. he may have no choice because turkey is pushing for some kind of intervention, i w
a lot of people love jesse jackson, but don t want him to run for president. there s a role for activists, who are out there hammering the issue, but are not running for the white house. one quick footnote there, there was a report in politico, i think maggie hayburne was reporting that a law firm with ties to palin, a law firm tied to her pac, had made inquiries about her filing deadlines. there s semi-formal draft groups. someone was certainly calling around, checking to see if she could get in. and the answer is, yes, she could, and i certainly wouldn t rule out the possibility. she s the only one that would really have the money right up-front, indeed. thank you very much. thanks, ben. thank you. good to see you. coming up, rick perry with a texas-sized balance sheet. we ll talk lone star politics with texas monthly s paul burka. plus, a new poll out today shows one in three veterans who have served since 9/11 say that the wars with in iraq and afghanistan are not w
they inserted themselves on several state levels. ground zero issue in new york, immigration in arizona, cambridge cop when they arrested professor gates at harvard. backfireed every time this is particularly damaging because obama proved himself to be irresponsible with the budget on the federal level. now you have a governor who is responsible on the state level and obama is trying to undermine and impede him. this is a bad place to be. bret: ten seconds each. down the line. government shutdown looms next week. a week from tonight. republicans have a continuing resolution, two weeks. do they figure it out this week? yeah, i don t think there will be a shutdown. it s fine for march 4. democrats will accept what the republicans are offering somewhat. but before the 4th of march it s after that between the 4 and 18 when the real rubber meets the road. i wouldn t rule shut-down out. first one of march fourth. it s clear that the republicans don t want a