Struggles behind it. every generation has to fight for these things anew. and there s a generational struggle every time out. i think right now the sense of mission and fervency on the right as represented by somebody like ted cruz is fiery, is attractive to their base in a way that i m not sure all the time that president obama s is to the base of progressives and the democratic party. i agree. so cruz is operating cruz is fighting on the other team s turf at this point. yeah. but i tell you, real quick here david. i want you to finish up. if you re a minority in this country, you can hear cruz. if you have doubts like a lot of people do about their religion, if you have any kind of secular attitudes or if you have any liberal progressive thoughts or you re realistic about the need for social security, medicare, and civil rights don t you see this guy is the real enemy? somebody that could really be dangerous. it all depends on how big the
By gadhafi. after 100,000 people killed in syria was there less imminent danger for the syrian people in this case now that assad is using chemical weapons? it s hard to argue that they were safer. all fair questions. i m just not sure it s fair to say it s convoluted because we re not hearing a fervency for war or a massive strike. if all we re doing is limited, let s do it. this is just holding him to his own desires. he came out and called for a strike. i know. stimulus ahead on morning joe, it s primary day in new york city and anthony weiner is not going out without a fight. he had can t miss interview with our very own lawrence o donnell next on morning joe . um. where s mrs. davis?
Support stricter law, but the intensity, the fervency of people who oppose those las. so the intensity is on the side of the opponents. one of the things that might have surprised some people in our journal nbc poll was the national rifle association had a somewhat better image that some people expected. on par, on balance, it was a positive image. only down slightly in terms of the negatives since the newtown tragedy. and so you know, you look back in history. after columbine, the nra was in neg territory, but after the gabby giffords shooting two years ago in positive territory. they re still isn t positive territory and they re the leading edge of the effort to turn back those restrictions. that doesn t mean the president can t get them through, but it s going to be difficult. john harwood, always good to see you. thank you so much. you bet. in this week s office politics, we talk with nbc without correspondent kristen welker. kristen spent last year on the obama campaign trai
I mean, haley barbour was a radically anti-abortion politician. he always has been. but even he did not take it so far as to take a well-qualified doctor who doesn t do abortions and kick him out of public service in mississippi. what happened in republican politics between last year and this year to put anti-abortion ideological fervency among that? there has been a drastic right-ward lurch just in this last election cycle. which as with we have been reports on it if last year, has yet to be explained to me by anybody. and the partisan divide on this is that democrats are starting to ask, why is this happening on the republican side? why is it that the republicans have lurched so suddenly and so far on women s issues? democrats are starting to ask that. and on the republican side, in republican politics, i think the reason why we haven t had an
It s policy. policy, policy, policy. it is not style. it s not personnel. it s not chromosomes. it s policy. republicans have always been conservatives on this issue, but this fervency is new. this pushing it to the top of the agenda is new, and as yet, unexplained. even in mississippi, in deeply, deeply conservative republican mississippi, being against abortion rights is nothing new. but being so fervently and urgently and desperately against abortion rights that you would stretch that idea into blackballing a well-qualified doctor s public service to his state, this is new. why is this happening now? what is pushing this to happen now. joining us now is dr. carl reddix, thank you very much for being here tonight. i really appreciate your time, sir. thank you for having me. you were appointed to the state board of health by governor haley barbour. can i ask how you found out that