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Prescription drugs, thats redistribution. head start is some redistribution. paying policeman in a tough neighborhood to deal with bad guys, thats some redistribution. every time a dollar is passed from one person to another, thats redistribution. what is he -- why is he consider this like i am a communist kind of talk? >> well, the republicans have tried to equate redistribution, that word, with communism, socialism, lennon, whatever. if you actually look -- listen to the quote, so that everyon...

>> every campaign has a rhythm, has a pace. and i think what the obama team is planning to do is to go after mitt romney very hard for the conservative positions he took, force all those videos back on to the air of mitt romney saying other things a few months ago and a couple things before that and so forth, try to get the benefit of both versions of mitt romney, the flip-flopping mitt romney and the hard right mitt romney. theres a conceptual conflict between the two, but the white house isnt ...

Im not saying that im assuming he meant it. youre running for president, you are paying to attention what youre saying. >> every campaign has a rhythm, has a pace. and i think what the obama team is planning to do is to go after mitt romney very hard for the conservative positions he took, force all those videos back on to the air of mitt romney saying other things a few months ago and a couple things before that and so forth, try to get the benefit of both versions of mitt romney, the flip-flop...

Theyre going to make him choose. theyre going to force him to choose the last thing that he did choose, which was a hard right attack to try to get to the right of people like bachmann and perry and santorum on any number of issues in the last six months and the white house, i know from talking to them, and the president says it himself publicly, and so do david axelrod and jim messina and the others, theyre going to try to stick mitt romney with the very conservative positions he went with in t...

History last night. winning iowa and new hampshire puts you in a position to -- to walk away with the republican nomination in most years. mika, weve been saying it week in and week out over the past year when we heard sarah palin was going to win it, we heard herman cain was going to be the nominee, michele bachmann, rick perry, newt gingrich was going to be the nominee -- ive always said in politics, there are laws. there are rules just like rules of physics. and you dont break those rules. at...

Rational choice. >> i do think in 2010, we were watching all of these races around the country and these tea party candidates winning. these candidates fantastic at the theater of hard right politics. and theres a tendency to look at that profile of candidacy and say thats whats going to resinate in 2012. it worked in 2010. sharon angle wins -- theyre going to want that for their presidential candidate. but theres something different in the presidential year even among the base of primary voters...

Articulated alternative? it does not. >> you know who does? you know who does? >> its really hard. >> you know who does? who has the alternative? its like the -- you know, the hard, hard, hard right -- >> ron paul. >> right. >> you know, so it didnt work the first time. you know why? because you still had little bits of government intervention here and there that were tainting the experiment. have you to get rid of those, make it pure. by the way, we laugh at this sort of thing. you know, we -- ...

>> does the left have a clearly articulated alternative? it does not. >> you know who does? you know who does? >> its really hard. >> you know who does? who has the alternative? its like the -- you know, the hard, hard, hard right -- >> ron paul. >> right. >> you know, so it didnt work the first time. you know why? because you still had little bits of government intervention here and there that were tainting the experiment. have you to get rid of those, make it pure. by the way, we laugh at this...

>> i dont think they have to. i think theyll be consistent with their voters back at home. >> i dont think they have to. i think theyll be consistent with their voters back at home. >> i dont think they have to. i think theyll be consistent with their voters back at home. >> i dont think they have to. i think theyll be consistent with their voters back at home. >> i dont think they have to. i think theyll be consistent with their voters back at home. >> i dont think they have to. i think theyll ...

But in 1992, the hard rights pat buchanan ran and lost in the republican primaries against the incumbent president, george h.w. bush. to placate the right, bushs team gave him a speaking slot at the republican convention. he used it to lay out his vision for america. >> block by block, my friends, we must take back our cities. and take back our culture and take back our country. >> reporter: some blamed buchanans rhetoric for hurting the bush re-election effort, pushing moderates to voted for th...