set the tone for the convention in tampa, romney is ensuring what the theme of the campaign will be. come out snarling. here are examples of christie at his most charming. let s listen. you re a real big shot. you re a real big shut. shut your mouth. you re walking away. on monday, are you going to be addressing the legislature? did i say on topic? are you stupid? thank you all very much. i m sorry for the idiot over there. first off, it s none of your business. i don t ask you where you send your kids to school. don t bother asking me where i send mine. it is people like you divide this country. we are here to bring this country together. not divide it. you ve got to be one arrogant s.o.b. to be telling the people of new jersey he ll decide when you ve been good enough to get some of your own money back. so joining us tonight is john braybender who worked for rick santorum. who decided to bring miss personality, miss congeniality to start the republican convention? w
advisers now signal in a paper an nart view with buzzpede that the next stage would be ruthless. this is a guy who admitted to cocaine use. he s talking about the president, had a sweetheart deal with his house in chicago, and was associated and worked with rod blagojevich to get valerie jaret appointed to the senate. are you familiar with the florida right, they re florinating our water because they want to get to our minds. not for our teeth. no, to control our minds. this brings up john mccain to me. one of the things they re saying is john mccain had a lousy campaign. he maybe had access to this kind of stuff and he didn t use it. the other group that is being insulted by the romney campaign is the media. they re saying we didment look into the rezko stuff, which we
to have chris christie open the republican convention. what a blupder bust. it s like bringing in the nastiest weapon of the boardwalk to blast at the president. got the message? i got it the second i heard christie s name. romney will not put the big guy on the ticket. oh, no. he s not perfect enough for the team. no. we re talking outsourcing. have the big noise from jersey do the nasty stuff. pick a pleasant, unthreatening fellow like, say, tim pawlenty for the ticket. christie now joins the tuba section along with john sununu and other big boys brought in to pound away to obama. having won the nomination in a clown show, here come the parade of elephants. uh-oh. look out. there s some rogues out there. republicans who wonder why mitt romney won t release those sticky tax returns. and why he s letting the crazies attack hillary s closest aide for being islamic. desperate to change the subject romney ruminate about a running mate and could be close in coming. something has
so far later in the convention when mitt romney finally shows with or without his tim pawlenty vice president. let me bring new here in a second, john. take a look at this. by choosing chris christie to give the big keynote speech to set the tone for the convention in tampa, romney is ensuring what the theme of the campaign will be. come out snarling. here are examples of christie at his most charming. let s listen. you re a real big shot. you re a real big shut. shut your mouth. you re walking away. on monday, are you going to be addressing the legislature? did i say on topic? are you stupid? thank you all very much. i m sorry for the idiot over there. first off, it s none of your business. i don t ask you where you send your kids to school. don t bother asking me where i send mine. it is people like you divide this country. we are here to bring this country together. not divide it. you ve got to be one arrogant s.o.b. to be telling the people of new jersey he ll d
caucus victory and said game on. i know a lot of folks are going to write. maybe those even at the white house, game over, but this game is long, long, long way from over. we are going to continue to go out there and fight to mack sure that we defeat president barack obama, that we wen the house back and that we take the united states senate and we stand for the values that make us americans, that make us the greatest country in the history of the world, that shining city on the hill to be a beacon for everybody for freedom around the world. with that announcement rick santorum ended his 2012 presidential bid, a process that the pennsylvania senator began in 2009. follow the steps he took to the white house online at the c-span video library with every c-span program since 1987. all this week in prime time here on c-span3 it s american history tv. tonight a look at the life and career of richard nixon. david gergen began his political career in 1971 as a staff assistant on