to explain anything, obviously i believe you re a sitting duck. jon: he s talking about a new report from the rnc that says the party needs to change its ways essentially. do the media, though, bear any responsibility for the republican party s image? let s talk about it with our news watch panel. alan colmes is host of the alan colmes show author of thank the liberals for saving america and why you should. jim pinkerton is kr-bgt editor and writer for the american conservative marks he is also a fox news contributor. alan does the g.o.p. get a fair shake in the press? yes. and to blame the media for the g.o.p. s more problems. i thought reince priebus was very, very candid in what he said. if democrats had said some of those things running up until now the media would go crazy saying democrats shouldn t be take those theurpbgs we are putting down the republican party. if the press said the very things that reince priebus said you d say it s the liberal media going after republican
time. this is a long road, and steadiness and vision and record matters. when you look at mitt romney s records of i think that will prevail. you can t look at any one poll and make any final conclusions. number three there is a steadiness that you have to have to prevail in the republican nomination process as well as the election. what we see is when you look to find out who is the most knowledgeable, most capable, most electable, most steady candidate in the race with the best record it s mitt romney. and i can assure you that over the next six and eight months he ll continue to have the support and gain momentum and be the nominee. megyn: he may be all of those theurpbgs i think you would concede that he s not the most conservative of the picks that the voters have right now in the gop field, and is that proving to be a problem for him? is that why the election threat on the gop side seems to keep