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Two-year campaign. she has all the time to rest and recover from the job she has had and to think this over. >> jonathan capehart, all of those microscopes and spotlights she has been under for 20 years and beyond, certainly in arkansas for many years before that, were all of her choosing, every one of these pressure jobs and positions she has been in has been of her choosing. this is not someone who is weighed down by the weight of the spotlight. she knows how to bear it and she knows what she ...

Three-year campaign or a two-year campaign. she has all the time to rest and recover from the job she has had and to think this over. >> jonathan capehart, all of those microscopes and spotlights she has been under for 20 years and beyond, certainly in arkansas for many years before that, were all of her choosing, every one of these pressure jobs and positions she has been in has been of her choosing. this is not someone who is weighed down by the weight of the spotlight. she knows how to bear i...

White voters in general, white independents. this is the problem, chris. its across the board, and thats why its not just -- chuck rightly points out, its not just an election, its not just a candidate. youre making a mistake if youre saying this is about mitt romney. not really. this is about the fate of a republican brand. chuck mentioned 2010. i look at 2010, 2010 almost in retrospect looks like a false positive. i think a lot of republicans thought, okay, we got beaten bad in 06, beaten bad ...

Lot. so i dont think that they were going to step into that at all. i mean, i know theres always been speculation that susan rice and secretary clinton werent close, and it all -- some of that all goes back to the 08 primary campaign. susan rice was very prominent surrogate and, in fact, you have some people who believe that thats what -- thats the issue john mccain has with her, that this goes back to the 2008 campaign when susan rice was the prominent foreign policy surrogate on behalf of then...

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>> thank you for your service. we paid for it in the 08 cycle when we werent running on it. we certainly werent running on it in 2012. we have been paying for it in spades since 04. the platform document was an anchor around the neck. >> okay. this country has never gone through a faster transition in thinking. and im part of it. all right? the public attitudes shifted dramatically in just a short period of time. i think youre going to be astounded by this. in 1996, not a million years ago, only...

Rights. they have doubled down on a certain kind of high bound, white, conservative christian, very backwards base. and they have pandered to that base for so long that its very hard to imagine an electoral future. >> its worse than that. you guys, carl rove and your buddies. remember carl rove? eight years ago, you went up to ohio and up to cleveland and you basically went to the black ministers and who was that guy? the boxing promoter. you guys went out and you rallied all of them. weve got t...

It -- theres a lot more clarity than the republican side. if hillary clinton were to run in 2016 there are obviously no guarantees in life or politics, but within the democratic party for the democratic nomination, she will be a front-runner like we have never seen before. and i know we sort of said that about her in the run up to 08. she had two liabilities in 08 that were gone. she was considered too much of a polarizing figure. can she get independents to vote for her in the fall. the republi...

The republicans view this as ap. if you take a look at outlays, in 2008, when we went in the economic difficulty; fy-08 there were $2.9 trillion in outlays. today its $3.8 trillion in fy-13. revenues $2.5 in 2008. theyre 2.9 today. back to re-knew we had before. nearly $400 billion more in re-knew bus we are, you know, nearly $900 billion more in spending. that is the trajectory were on. so the republicans are emphasizing the savings. they propose $600 billion in medicare and other health saving...

Clinton makes another run for president. >> shes a very formidable as a person and is a very confident person. she is married to the most popular democrat in the country. they both think it would be good for her to be president. that makes it virtually impossible to stop her for the nomination i think, and i thought she was frankly going to be a nominee in 08. every republican should be focused on what were talking about. if their competitor in 16 is going to be hillary clinton and supported by ...