The second thing is, too often political consultants separate themselves from the reality. let me tell you my reality tonight, my reality is my mom s coming in to town, my sons are coming into town, i m going to be sitting around hopefully a fireplace and a tv set and we re going to be hopefully watching a christmas movie, and if i m in iowa and i m seeing all these negative attack ads and see one guy talking about christmas and the glories of america. if i m an average voter, i m going to say with my family, what are these guys coming into my home, it s a linda mcmahon thing. you talk to people in connecticut. they felt violated by all the 30-second commercials coming into their home and it backfired on them. this has backfired, and i m sorry to go on. but remember, 2004, it backfired on gephart and dean when they were attacking each other through the christmas holidays and that turned people to john
First of all, it s getting pretty brutal out there. well, is that good for the process? bad for the process? what do you think? well, we need healthy competition for the process. but healthy. it has to be done in a professional way, sean. i mean, we re republicans. and we want to take the white house back. sean: i m actually a registered conservative. i m sorry, a conservative. i don t think governor perry is going to be governor romney s chance for v.p. they don t like each other and i will tell you this reminds me a lot of when gephart did the murder suicide thing on my guy howard dean in iowa in 2004. sean: was that before or after the rah. before the rah and what caused it because perry is going to go out. got $55 million in a super pack. my guess is he is going to spend every dime of that trashing romney and romney is going to be forced to come back in kind. and you re likely to see neither one of them get the nomination.
First of all, it s getting pretty brutal out there. well, is that good for the process? bad for the process? what do you think? well, we need healthy competition for the process. but healthy. it has to be done in a professional way, sean. i mean, we re republicans. and we want to take the white house back. sean: i m actually a registered conservative. i m sorry, a conservative. i don t think governor perry is going to be governor romney s chance for v.p. they don t like each other and i will tell you this reminds me a lot of when gephart did the murder suicide thing on my guy howard dean in iowa in 2004. sean: was that before or after the rah. before the rah and what caused it because perry is going to go out. got $55 million in a super pack. my guess is he is going to spend every dime of that trashing romney and romney is going to be forced to come back in kind. and you re likely to see neither one of them get the nomination.
President with gephart government affairs, scott brenner. we are not talking about laying off controllers who are actually controlling things in the control towers around the country, right? no, i don t think for most travelers you re not going to see any kind of change in your travel when you re flying. jon: but you are going to see some of the tax money that the government used to collect go elsewhere. now, take a look at this. this is interesting. if your airline ticket costs maybe $300, the federal tax you pay is at least $25, can be higher if there are more flight segments as i understand it. and the airlines have decided, at least a good many of them, if they are not going to collect that tax for good old uncle sam, they are just going to pocket it themselves. american, united, continental, delta, u.s. airways, southwest and airtran effectively have raised their prices by keeping that money. now according to the research
Workers. what does it all mean for you and your next trip to the airport? joining us now the vice president with gephart government affairs, scott brenner. we are not talking about laying off controllers who are actually controlling things in the control towers around the country, right? no, i don t think for most travelers you re not going to see any kind of change in your travel when you re flying. jon: but you are going to see some of the tax money that the government used to collect go elsewhere. now, take a look at this. this is interesting. if your airline ticket costs maybe $300, the federal tax you pay is at least $25, can be higher if there are more flight segments as i understand it. and the airlines have decided, at least a good many of them, if they are not going to collect that tax for good old uncle sam, they are just going to pocket it themselves. american, united, continental, delta, u.s. airways, southwest