so who is america to believe? believe when you are speaking to your friends, your audience, your group, you are who you are. when that track record plays out, you are pandering when you are in philadelphia let me go back to juan. you are in philadelphia, talking to a 71% white country. you pander, keeping your base and acolytes where they are. sean: juan, you said, you don t have any problem with the way he speaks differently in front of different audiences, explain why that s acceptable to you. when al gore it did it before a predominantly african-american audience and goes into black preacher mode. republicans have the wrong agenda for african-americans, they don t even want to count you in the census. i found that despicably pandering. tell me why it s acceptable to you. you said, oh, that s acceptable to me is it acceptable? all of this all this is about why is it acceptable? let me speak. all it s about is politicians
so who is america to believe? believe when you are speaking to your friends, your audience, your group, you are who you are. when that track record plays out, you are pandering when you are in philadelphia let me go back to juan. you are in philadelphia, talking to a 71% white country. you pander, keeping your base and acolytes where they are. sean: juan, you said, you don t have any problem with the way he speaks differently in front of different audiences, explain why that s acceptable to you. when al gore it did it before a predominantly african-american audience and goes into black preacher mode. republicans have the wrong agenda for african-americans, they don t even want to count you in the census. i found that despicably pandering. tell me why it s acceptable to you. you said, oh, that s acceptable to me is it acceptable? all of this all this is about why is it acceptable? let me speak. all it s about is politicians
he wants his record and the things he does to speak for himself and i m not sure that would fly this time around. in terms of content, when he wasn t an extremist, was he? i mean, today s republican party requires that you pander to a particular wing aggressively. that s what we have seen throughout this primary season. yeah. i think that s probably why at the time he probably upset a lot of people because i think that that s best thing he did was the decision based on what he thought was best whether it made this person happy or that person unhappy. when you look at him now, why is he so much more popular now than he was, say 20, years ago? i think it is easy when a time passes on and you can just look and all the anger and the moments at the time when people are all up in arms p. slowly dissipate, and you can just really, i guess, look at the facts and see what he did and i think probably that is
we had you on the show many times. a lot of people in the press were certainly enamored you. a smart guy, guy with a sense of humor, and very conservative guy if you look at the record. so as you look back now with a couple of months to reflect on it, how come you never quite got off the launching pad? well, you start a little late in the game. and then when my good better half mary kay sat down as we began this journey and said, if you pander, if you sign those silly pledges, i will leave you. [ laughter ] i knew at that point that we that focuses the mind. grover, i m going to have to get back to you. to be followed up by a guy named michael moore who went on television who said, that huntsman guy, that is a guy i think i could support, to be followed up by jimmy carter, that huntsman guy, i think i could support him. to be followed by bill clinton,
same thing on the left as republicans used to do on the right, pander to their base using social issues? if they do, i think it will be a mistake, just like if the republicans pushed it. this is a different world right now. people are out of work, people are frightened. we are going broke as a country and i think people in their guts know that. whether you pander to the right or to the left with social issues, i think strategically it will backfire politically. i agree. it is the economy, economy, economy. let s go on to the washington post open-ed by fareez zakaria. in the middle east protests, a seismic shift. so far the obama administration has handled each crisis as it erupted. balancing the interests and opportunities presented in each country. that is understandable in a fast-moving, fluid situation. bahrain is a close ally, hosting an american naval base. with the somewhat reformist monarch. libya is a repressive rogue state with a cruel and crazy man