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This summer face it with the primary season that left even republican voters wondering is this all there is? our question tonight, is it time for republicans to hit the panic button and start looking for other candidates even now? joining me now is an old friend ed rogers, former aide to president herbert walker bush. he goes way back. ahn msnbc political analyst david corn to enjoy the festivities. he is with "mother jones" a magazine that covers the republican party instinctively. republican v...

>> you are playing to a republican negative stereotype and i wish he hadnt done it. it is not going to drive votes. it wont make anybody vote one way or the other in november based on what rush limbaugh says. >> we should have more women on the show right now. >> this is the problem your party has. >> i agree. >> the problem the party has is that stuff plays. he doesnt say it for no reason. you have people out there who want to suck that stuff up and thats what mitt romney has so much problem wi...

The way he wants to bring down the deficit. >> right. >> keep in mind, november is going to decide the fate of the bush tax cuts. not just his health care plan but the fate of the bush tax cuts. thats a lot on the line. i love where major is going with this because it is -- people need to realize that is -- weve not had sort of that sort of -- >> you mean elections matter. i like it when they matter. we have to go. >> fully engaged debate on taxes. >> i know. i really do believe elections should...

>> we should probably spend time with sarah palin although she is hard to find. im not quite sure what she would be preferring to. im pro life, pro traditional marriage, i believe in the second amendment. >> a lot of this has to do with somebodys past, you know, where they -- were they pro abortion before and now perhaps theyre pro life and what allowed that switch? kind of that flip flop. were they pro big government, pro increase of taxes back then? and where are they now? so its subjective wh...

Iran gets nuclear capability you see proliferation in the gulf and elsewhere. >> i wonder down the road about most of us who care about israels future that have you to wonder what happens when all the countries go nuclear? what happens when egypt the new islamist governor coming in, they want a nuclear weapon. what happens when the new government in libya decides they want one. the previous government gadhafi was headed that direction. a new government in syria, which is islamist starts going th...

This. thank you for coming in. please come back. joan of course you are like me. we watch this thing. we dont do it. coming up all of a sudden things are looking unusually good for president obama. wait until you see these polls coming back. he is up in those polls and has a new spring in his step. hes up. this guy is going places. maybe back to the white house for four more years. youre watching "hardball" only on msnbc. tylenol:nyquil. what are you doing? nyquil (stuffy): just reading your lab...

rick santorum what he did to newt gingrich, bury him with negative ads. but santorum is fighting back on romneys weak side, his lack of a sense of humor. the republican food fight is our top story. while the republicans are knocking themselves out trying to knock each other out things are suddenly looking unusually good for president obama. he looks like a winner on the payroll tax and on the birth control fight. his poll numbers are going up and at least for now he beats all the repub...

rick santorum what he did to newt gingrich, bury him with negative ads. but santorum is fighting back on romneys weak side, his lack of a sense of humor. the republican food fight is our top story. while the republicans are knocking themselves out trying to knock each other out things are suddenly looking unusually good for president obama. he looks like a winner on the payroll tax and on the birth control fight. his poll numbers are going up and at least for now he beats all the repub...

Program, iran announces it may cut off oil sales to much of the continent of europe. and what could that do to gas prices right here that are already high? finally let me finish with why romney is beginning to look, im sorry, he is a dignified guy normally, beginning to look goofy. we begin with the republican food fight between mitt romney and rick santorum. chip saltsman was campaign manager for mike huckabees 2008 presidential campaign. joan walsh is editor of "salon" and of course an msnbc p...