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[ applause ] >> ahh, but some republicans want to you leave the country if you support him. the republicans will attack this president from now all the way to election day, wont back off, but their strategies need to be based in reality, facts. the american people wont respond well to the extreme attacks. get your cell phones out. tonights question, will republican lies about president obama work? text a for yes, b for no to 622639 our blog at ed.msnbc.com. we love it when you make a comment. we...

Much more dangerous than any mean words we call the president. >> exactly. >> does all this rhetoric being thrown out help president obama and democrats win the house back? >> certainly some of it does. who is allen west? who is this guy? lets debate this guy, talk to him and see what is going on in his mind. he seemed to be off the charts here. and the bottom line here, when we think about the ways in which the political discourse has been contaminated by this kind of language, i do think we ne...

Doing irrepairable harm with the hispanic voters. fastest growing demographic, today answering questions about medicare fraud in florida. the longer that mitt romney has to talk about these issues that are putting him outside the main stream the better it is for democrats. >> what do you make of newt gingrich saying he will go all the way to the convention? >> that is what democracy is all about. >> do you think he could do it, does he have the resources to do that? >> he is right in a sense tha...

Not part of the story, that i think is a thing most dangerous, much more dangerous than any mean words we call the president. >> exactly. >> does all this rhetoric being thrown out help president obama and democrats win the house back? >> certainly some of it does. who is allen west? who is this guy? lets debate this guy, talk to him and see what is going on in his mind. he seemed to be off the charts here. and the bottom line here, when we think about the ways in which the political discourse h...

Of the democratic party speak that way about the pr -- the president of the united states. i never heard george h.w. bush talk like that. >> it feels like desperation, like this is a republican party that sees itself and the base slipping away, that has kind of painted itself in a corner with the anti-immigration, anti-woman, anti-reproductive right, anti-young people having jobs. against so many people the small slice of the electorate to whom they are appealing is not sustainable over the long...

True conservatives will rally around. >> conservatives clearly are rejecting romney. hes no where getting a majority. once you get beyond florida these are proportional representation states. this will go all the way to the convention. conservatives will come together and decide they dont want a massachusetts liberal to be the republican nominee. >> one right winger who sure seems to be in newts corner, former alaska governor, sarah palin. >> so, if for no other reason rage against the machine, ...

Of salon.com. how in the world is mitt romney going to continue to massage, joan, his position on latino voters in the dream act and get away with it? i mean, can he win the presidency if he gets the nomination with such a low number of latino voters viewing him unfavorably? >> i think its hard. bill knows better than i do in the key swing states the latino vote is a growing importance. the thing that is so tragic to me, ed, the dream act used to be the kind of no-brainer, everyone could agree a...

Fire up the base. but you see there is one thing about all this, not working on the majority of the american people. president obamas approval rating holy smokes, going up. recent washington post abc news poll shows president obama is now in 53% approval rating. highest approval rating since april of 2010. even right wing pollster rasmussen has president obama at 51% approval rating. these extreme attacks by republicans are happening because the president was effective in the state of the union ...

All the in-coming on president obama just in the last week, you know, the head of the rnc, congressman west in florida, you have jan brewer of arizona, is this what it will be like going in all the things that mitt and newt have been saying, is this just the way it will be? >> i think it will be blisteringly negative. if you look how tough newt gingrich has been against mitt romney, imagine what they will do to take the paint off president obamas barn. i think what youre looking at hundreds of m...

How in the world is mitt romney going to continue to massage, joan, his position on latino voters in the dream act and get away with it? i mean, can he win the presidency if he gets the nomination with such a low number of latino voters viewing him unfavorably? >> i think its hard. bill knows better than i do in the key swing states the latino vote is a growing importance. the thing that is so tragic to me, ed, the dream act used to be the kind of no-brainer, everyone could agree and maybe peopl...