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Two corrupt political parties that exist today. ray in tennessee, the gop nominees probably gonna be a tea party republican, that will draw from ron pauls true libertarian base. i dont think that bodes well for the congressman. terrence in new jersey writes, try three times and youre out is more like it. shawn writes, probably not, i wrote him in in 08 and i will again in 2012 but the majority of americans dont seem to realize how much trouble this country is in. besides, hes honest. jay in ne...

>> jess, do other republicans view him as a likely and as a serious contender? he certainly could write himself a big check. >> if they do, i havent met that person. theres a lot of eye rolling that goes on. a lot of, you know, republican establishment think hes not good for the party and an early season distraction that will probably go away before we see people go into the caucuses in iowa. >> whos your front-runner in new hampshire at the moment? >> i would say right now mitt romney would pro...

How do you view your ability to steer the ship toward the debate that youre having with me here now and away from the sort of the absurdity of this morning? >> well, you know, i sort of have are been saying the same thing for a long time. i think the debate is coming my way or our way and you know, after campaign was over, even though it was noticeable in 07 and early 08 the crisis was coming, but when the financial bubble burst and the housing bubble burst, all of a sudden, austrian free market...

Obama is. he is the last guy in the gang to get out the door if youre blaming somebody. your thoughts, doug? the pockets and the economics of this. >> on the politics, they blame the president. the sitting president always gets blamed. we have seen this movie again and again. on the substance of policy, the obama administration has not been very good on oil. they have been weak -- >> what would mccain have done? what would mccain have done differently? lets get through it. >> you cant change thi...

Have some phony name to apply to harvard and get him in? like somebody that didnt even exist, that is how far he has gone with this. >> that plays right into the whole mentality, not just of birthers but sort of rejectionist front in this country. never accepting his legit math mass circumstance partly for ideological reason. >> partly because of race. lets not finish the discussion without -- >> sort of genteel in a way as at 08 campaign was, i think this one is going to be almost mathematicall...

Differently? lets get through it. >> you cant change this. we had $140 for oil a barrel in 08. so, now they the economys recovering and seeing oil prices go back up. the presidents stuck and he is, as a matter of politics, trying to change the subject and doesnt have many places to go. hes not great on jobs and debt and spending and now a problem with gasoline. >> if we were raping this continent, drilling offshore everything, risking everything just like with bp and taking apart the anwar and d...

Price will go up, im going to buy some. it formentes a change in supply and demand and that adds up at margin so supply and demand is tipped out of balance and then other factors like the middle east or weather and voila you have the mess that we have right now but the culprit i believe at the margin of distorting prices is the central banks of the world. >> does it surprise you none of our political leaders cite the reason you just did? >> not at all because none of them have understood any of ...

>> you cant change this. we had $140 for oil a barrel in 08. so now they the economys recovering and seeing oil prices go back up. the presidents stuck and this as a matter of politics trying to change the subject and doesnt have many places to go. hes not great on jobs and debt and spending and now a problem with gas loan. >> if we were raping this continent, drilling offshore everything, risking everything just like with bp and taking apart the anwar and drilling everywhere, would the price of...

His arms around not only the arab spring and arab winter but the arab peace process, in an effort to impose some rational and to remind people that in fact we -- there is some consistency predictability to american policy. >> youve got john mccain doing something which i thought was rather extraordinary, being on foreign soil, in a war zone, in benghazi, and criticizing the administration policy. he is the former, you know, nominee and the most well known of the foreign policy hawks in the senat...

Governor barbour will not run for president. meantime, there is word republican congressman ron paul of texas is about to his announce presidential exploratory committee. he is headed to iowa tomorrow where is he expected to announce state leadership team. also planning a stop in nevada with some analysts consider a new bellwether state. political watchers describe congressman paul as a conservative, a constitutionalist and a libertarian. congressman paul says he will make his official decision ...