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Womans right to choose, but you stand up at a primary debate and said that youd be delighted to sign a law outlawing that right to choose in all cases, man, you definitely got romnesia. >> in addition to that campaign event in virginia today the obama campaign also released yet another new ad on the subject of mitt romneys abortion position. >> seeing this from mitt romney, then take a look at this. >> if roe v. wade was overturned congress passed a federal ban on all abortions and it came to yo...

Refusing to say whether or not youd sign a bill that protects equal pay for equal work, you might have romnesia. if you say women should have access to contraceptive care but you support legislation that would let your employer deny you contraceptive care, you might have a case of romnesia. if you say youll protect a womans right to choose, but you stand up at a primary debate and said that youd be delighted to sign a law outlawing that right to choose in all cases, man, you definitely got romne...

The republican party has had on issues of choice, on reproductive freedom. its extreme and has been for years. mitt romney got into bed with dr. james wilke, this theory that women couldnt get pregnant if theyre raped. and now romney is faced with the repercussions of those choices. he thought he could skate by until november with no one paying any attention to what he anything he had done what his vice presidential nominee had done. >> we suggested there was a campaign about issues when paul ry...

And nationally by two points. joining me now, msnbcs alex wagner and chris hayes. alex, rush limbaugh magave the order yesterday, do not take any questions, answer any questions about not having any exception for rape and the abortion position of the party. mitt romney is certainly following that order. >> dont ask, dont tell. it rears its ugly head again. this is the point the republican party has sunk to. there are four days till the republican nomination. and the vice presidential nominee is ...

>> my view is that the supreme court should reverse roe v. wade and send back to the states the responsibility for deciding whether theyre going to have abortion legal in their state or not. >> that, to me, would be a real challenge, to just say, were reversing roe v. wade making us pro-life, when, in fact, it gives all the states a chance to decide geographically whats moral and whats immoral. >> well, i think we have to decide what politically has the greatest potential of being successful. >>...

To say look, akin, you need to get out of the race and i am for an exception for rape and danger to the life of the mother and he will start to look, not that he is, he will start to look a little more moderate on the abortion position which would be wonderful for independent women. the problem is this is really a base election. he needs to turn out the base. so at some point, evangelical christians are going to go hey, wait a minute, all right, enough of the piling on from romney, mcconnell, al...

>> but he flipped on his abortion position. his tax plan hes amended once, may be amending again. there is now a lot more ammunition for when all of these debates pick up again. >> right. >> that his opponents are going to have a lot more questions. >> one thing i want to bring up. you know, one missing piece to this has been his wife. in a story like this, you usually see something with a spouse when trouble like this. heres what he said when he was asked about where his wife was on the campaig...

saturday at the conference in south carolina. his speech expected to focus heavily on the texas economy, half of the jobs created in this country, in the last two years they were in texas. republicans are going to point to that as a success story. democrats say not so fast. most of those jobs are low wage jobs. democratic source told me earlier today, governor pair vee all hat and no cattle. but after the speech in south carolina, anderson, he heads off to new hampshire and he taped an...

Christian and her abortion position, position on gay rights, all the way down the line. you feed it all into a computer in terms of stands on the issues i activist in iowa right up and down the line. i can tell you not only her personal family, as well, you know, they have 23 foster kids that theyve taken care of. i mean, she is a dream candidate for that particular group. now, whether theyre going to sit there and say, hey, wait a minute, could this woman win a general election? they may be inf...

Think, you know, mike huckabee also. she could come in second place in iowa, and that improves your quota a lot. she could become a more significant player. with a second place or even a first place in iowa. >> lets cut her some slack here for one or two minutes, howard. she has apparently a very compelling personal story. and when you go out and talk to the church people, i would assume that would matter as much as positions as she nails down. what do you think of that? >> the more you look at ...