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Look, this is a guy who in 2009 got pushed out of the race for governor by bob mcdonnell because bob mcdonnell was more conservative and better positioned to win the race. he stepped aside with the expectation from everyone in the republican party that in 2013 hed be the guy. well, along comes ken cuccinelli, and the reality is its a convention there, a very small group of people, activists, conservatives by and large, that pick the nominee. even in a primary im not sure bill bolling beats ken c...

Just fighting for tax breaks for the wealthy and not caring about everybody else. i do think we need to change that. republican principles are based on two promises. number one, to every american, if you get up and you work hard and you follow the rules, youre going to succeed and do well in this country. number two, that we will always leave this country better for the next generation. a promise were now set to break because of the ridiculous spending and the out of control debt. weve got to re...

Doubt that any of the justices who belong to the so-called conservative wing will uphold the individual mandate, which would require every american to have health insurance coverage or pay a penalty. >> regardless of how the administration tries to frame their arguments, at the end of the day we are talking about a statute that is literally unprecedented in our constitutional history in terms of the sweeping expansion of federal authority, the potential threat to individual liberty, individual s...

Scalia using a 2005 opinion in their brief. in that case, scalia wrote under the commerce clause congress had the power to regulate someone who wanted to grow medicinal marijuana in her home and sell it. government hopes that will bolster the arguemen arguement e commerce cause gives congress the authority to require every american carry health insurance or pay a penalty. >> even if scalia is skeptical of the merits of the healthcare reform law, it will be very hard for him to get away from his ...

its the final sprint to super tuesday, and the republican presidential candidates are crisscrossing the country. they are all hunting for votes. our national political correspondent jim acosta is following mitt romney. jim, what are you hearing from the romney campaign? whats their realistic objective come tuesday? >> reporter: well, their realistic objective come tuesday is to win as many delegates as possible. and that is what this campaign is about right now. and its about delegates...

all american troops will be home by the end of the year. thats 39,000 men and women. there was talk that 5,000 troops might stay next year, but, no. weve got jessica yellin at the white house and chris lawrence at the pentagon tonight. jessica, i wanted to start with you. this came down to whether our troops would be protected troops would be protected from prosecution in iraq in part, didnt it? >> reporter: thats right. the white house, this administration and the iraqi government wer...

Republican party to go and get a quote/unquote easy scalp in the name of bob bennett. bob bennett did a terrible job, didnt go back home, didnt visit utah enough. didnt do his own politics here and got caught with his pants down. you sit there, and, yes, its hard to believe a guy like bob bennett not exactly the definition of a liberal republican would somehow get pushed out by a more conservative wing of the party, but theyre pushing him out because they can. its easy to do. florida, same thing...

Conservative wing of the party. but theyre pushing him out because they can. its easy to do. florida, same thing. and look, crist also had the added issue of being governor at a time when its not easy being a governor of any state right now. and its a pretty -- youve got to make some unpopular decisions. >> well what im seeing here, chris, is a series of purges. its not that the party is moving to the right. its an incumbents like governors, five-term senators like specter, party leaders like jo...

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Because that doesnt make a difference in how it works. >> noncommital from senator lake ford but others have come out and said it. others, two conservative wing of the conference, they have to make decisions very quickly u. they want to have the photos in march. theres no consensus yet. theres no yes whether they have the votes to pass it out of the chambers. white house will have to do a conservative sales pitch. >> can i ask? yesterday we heard coming out of the white house from a senior offic...