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Hispanics. he is just like anybody else now. do you think the republican message on immigration, george wills said recently that if mitt romney doesn t get 31 percent of the hispanic vote he cannot win the election. do you think the democrats have been successful as portraying conservatives as anti american and alienated them from the hispanic people. i think it has been hurt by some of the rhetoric but i also think it has been hurt by unfair coverage. you are concerned about illegal immigration is saying you are against immigration you are unfair. we are the pro legal immigration party. what about the 50 people legally awaiting to come here. their mom and dad has been waiting in line 10 years. what do we tell them? come illegally. it s cheaper and quicker. immigration is not a statistic or a theory. ....
Legitimate issue to raise. it should be in a broader campaign by romney than gotch gotcha. he should explain why obama s understanding of stimulating the government is wrong. but legitimate policy issue. bret: juan? i think everybody asks a question: what is going on? why how old he have anything to do with donald trump? i think the answer is that mitt romney wants to prove that he has appeal to people who have embraced the strange notion that, birthers, that obama was not born in the united states, not born in hawaii. it has, i think, split some people, bill kristol, george wills. people think what is the up-side? why would he do this? bret: there has been or out theed by the campaign some effect about donald trump, making calls, robo call in state where there are blue collar voters that the romney campaign feels they need to reach out to, michigan, ohio. not necessarily slowly on this one issue. no. again to reach out to people ....
And you would think that that turns the lights out on santorum. are you hearing panic from the republican party still? no, not the same way. now that he got michigan. they re ready to coalesce? they re ready to get this over with. you saw our poll. republicans are they re tired of this. they re tired of this primary. you guys hearing the same thing in. it seems republicans are more panicked now. it s like my god, we re just killing ourselves here. let s stop. very important politico story today about how some people in the party, donors and strategi strategists, we ve got to save the house, figure out if we can take back the senate, and that fight over resources romney needs to end this soon and show strength is for the big super pacs and bundlers and say we re going to try to win the presidential. we re not going to go with the george wills strategy. they re two very rich republicans that the establishment s going to have to go talk to. is somebody ready to fly t ....
Position right now in our country with the economy and so forth. yes, americans should engage in something so important. i don t know what george will is doing. i think many cocktail parties and this elitist and defeatist attitude is wrong so republicans and make sure that vote and concentrate on the white house. david, it looks like you might have been at the cocktail parties and may agree with george will on this, don t focus on the presidency, that will come and go every four years, we ve got to get control of the committees and gavels in congress and drive legislation. do you agree with george will? well, it s a boxing analogy, it s a split decision, s right we need to focus on down ballot and congress and the committees and try to take the senate and especially now that olympia snowe is announcing she s retiring. and fdr wanted to alter the supreme court. obama could appoint three ....
Conservatives turn their energies to a goal much more than electing romney or santorum president. it s taking control of the house and senate and making sure the republicans wield all the gavels. what does our political panel think about that? a provocative argument. and radio talk show host david webb the founder of tea party 365 in the middle and doug schoen on the end. a pollster. dede. let me start with you. as form assistant to president bush do you agree with george will that we should forget the presidency and just focus on congress, winning back congress? no. i mean, that s the most insane thing i ve ever heard. you cannot give up the presidency, never ever give up. and this is one of the most important things americans can do is vote for the president of the united states of america. i mean, we re in a terrible ....