congressional districts and perhaps in senate contests that are going to be up, does the quest for success by being on the really right side of immigration and gun control, ideologically speaking, does it threaten terminally the prospects for national success for the republican party? i don t think there s any doubt. i think it does. dan, i think it does. dan, does it? i believe it does. whoever s our nominee for president in 2016 is not going to be successful if this the immigration issue is not addressed. now, i m not saying it s sufficient. i m not saying our nominee s guaranteed to be successful if the immigration issue is addressed, but it s necessary. it s a necessary but not sufficient thing that needs to happen. dan, let me ask you a question here. your candidate, mitt romney, our party s nominee, mitt romney, went so far right on immigration in iowa, and for a reason, for a reason, because he knew that people with the most extreme
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second terms throughout history. and they basically summed it up this way. in the first year of a second term, they try and do something big on the economy. typically doesn t work. in the second year, they re already in midterms, third year, try to do middle east peace, doesn t work. and fourth year they re pardoning their friends. so we re in year one right now. it doesn t look very promising that we re going to get a deal which means we could be going through the next four years without any serious reduction in the deficit and the debt. so we could be looking at the picture we re at, and we ll be staring at it in 2015 and 2016. and it will only be worse. i think there s a relatively stronger argument for putting money, federal money, into the economy. when the economy is really in crisis. but i don t think we re any longer really in an economic crisis. we re in a period of slow growth. we have a major challenge in trying to find sensible ways to spark economic growth and get us goi
moderate republicans and even those moderate democrats wanting to come around on something that allows some path, whether it s citizenship or green card or however you choose to define it, this is good for democrats, and i think it ultimately may be good for the issue. let s go to mike. put the national review editorial in. i ve got a lot of friends over there. it sounds like short-term thinking to me, at best, if we want to win presidential electio election. can i ask a question? off of what you said about gun control, that it s just a matter of time. if you lump these two issues together, immigration and gun control, it would seem to most people that both elements, immigration and gun control, is just a matter of time before something happens to improve the situation. but the question is, these two issues taken together with regard to the republican party, and democrats have their own issues in the senate, but with regard to the republican party, does individual ideology, does
enemies on foreign battlefields, not for civilian use. and we re hearing from general after general that comes on our show and actually has an honest conversation about this, which is what we do here. and they don t see a place for it in our society. and i don t understand i had a very hard time listening to the testimony from the nra as well as from i think it s gayle trotter, the lawyer who is representing their point of view because it just, to me, is putting us back into a time or forward into a time that s very frightening for our society. and they re profiting the nra and the gun lobby off of people s fear and extremism. and there s no other way to put it. so let me ask you, captain, you feel like there is a possibility that you will find enough support among republicans for a universal background check in the senate? yeah, absolutely.