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Knows what he believes. he seems to believe whatever he eds to say he believes. depending on the electorate that hes asking to support him. right now hes planning to put himself in front of a very conservative tea party-leaning electoral, and his past is haunting him and hes definitely trying to twist himself into a pretzel to run from it. its impossible. >> what do you make of it, i know youre a democrat in the party, the leader. im wondering what youre up against. i get a sense youre not just ...

Right now hes planning to put himself in front of a very conservative tea party-leaning electoral, and his past is haunting him and hes definitely trying to twist himself into a pretzel to run from it. its impossible. >> what do you make of it, i know youre a democrat in the party, the leader. im wondering what youre up against. i get a sense youre not just up against an opposition, youre sort of up against a coalition of a leader, who is a reasonable republican, and then you have this protest e...

And number two, frankly, they did feel as though there was some political gain to marginalize the opponents as being all part of this group this fringe element, if you will, that insisted that the president was not qualified to be the president of the united states to begin with. i think that they finally came to a tipping point for a number of reasons, both capitol hill and practical, as the president outlined today, contessa. >> keith, a lot of the response, as we have been talking about, trum...

Not different. for them to come out with this report in the middle of recession and say they collected less taxes, well, no duh. >> well, ill tell you what is going on, this could be used as justification -- you think youre suffering now, in comparison, youre not, theres much more room to go. >> thats right. how are we going to pay for the programs we promised people in return for votes if we dont tax your butt off. theres going to be a blood letting come november. people are sick of this rhetor...

Pow powerful element, a fringe element, that possibly undercuts the tea partys message, what do you have to say to the more extreme elements whether you agree that they represent the group or party as a whole, the perception is that they are certainly part of it and have a significant voice? >> well, you know, we hear this myth of the tea party fringe and ive been to a lot of tea party events over the last year, because i got started with a tea party movement in nashville back last february and ...

This is just a fringe element. this is what sarah palin posted on twitter. she said that common sense cob servetives and lovers of america dont retreat. instead, reload. please see my facebook page. that shows -- her facebook page shows a map with rifle sights over the states with vulnerable democrats. some of the gun imagery is a little misplaced. >> certainly. we see this sort of rhetoric. we talk -- national parties talk about targets. unfortunately, in this context, that has quite a differen...

Thats an energy the republicans can harness but at the same time its extremely dangerous to them. there have been compare sons made to the far left anti-war movement during the 60s. that was passion, that was energy. there were some sophisticated thinkers but not in the sense they figure out elections. they were more interested in punishing the democratic party for what it saw as collusion in the vietnam war. its the same on the reverse side with this new fringe element. so what the democrats ar...

Couple of months ago, hes talking reasonably and then start with the whole thing about, of course, you know the government did blow up the world trade towers, dont you know? and they start with building 7 you know the whole thing. intellectually, theyre fine theyve got all the information. but their bottom line thing is what you said this deep dark notion that everythings explainable by one truth. the government is evil. in this case. >> so thats right. because people for these very very traumat...

Waters down, he did see signs that were extremists. there is no doubt about that. in an article in the "new york times" today the quote people who are getting their guns ready and things like this. so you do know that this strain exists under that umbrella. >> well, obviously though, you have got to consider the source. this reporter, its going to gout go out and find that extreme fringe in a movement like this. so we have to keep that in perspective, too. that is what i believe a lot of folks i...

Waters down, he did see signs that were extremists. there is no doubt about that. in an article in the "new york times" today the quote people who are getting their guns ready and things like this. so you do know that this strain exists under that umbrella. >> well, obviously though, you have got to consider the source. this reporter, its going to gout go out and find that extreme fringe in a movement like this. so we have to keep that in perspective, too. that is what i believe a lot of folks i...