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It say about the power of the net roots? we thing about it all the time. can it push a -- you can call him a centrist democrat, ill call him a hawk out of the senate. youre watching ""hardball"" only on msnbc. whew! these sure are challenging times. whoa! with a diamondweave texture ats soft and more durable, no wonder it holds up better. fewer pieces left behind. charmin ultra strong. ♪ now the healing power of touch just got more powerful. introducing precise from the makers of tylenol. prec...

>> is he too much of a hawk? >> is he too much of a hawk? well, absolutely yes. it was a pretty pivotal moment in 2006 when progressives pry married him and through the iraq message, by beating him and showing that voters supported democratic politicians being strong on the iraq issue, that actually had ripple effects and had the entire democratic party to start talking about iraq which helped us take back congress. thats been our strategy the last couple of years, trying to push democrats to be...

Survival and the success of liberty. this much we pledge and more. >> thurston, was that warlike? i mean, its been taken by the hawks as a statement of license. lets go fight the commies. yet i remember how subdued he was where ike said youve got to fight for the cork and the bottle. he was restrained although he did begin moving us in there. he avoided us fighting in africa. he kept us out of berlin and cuba. both times, 61, 62 when the hawks wanted to go in. he was not a hawk. he was a very ba...

Announcing yesterday he wont seek re-election in 2012 next year. he says he hasnt changed but he thinks politics has. lets listen to this argument. >> ive about not always fit comfortably into conventional political boxes. maybe youve noticed that. politics of president kennedy, patriotic service to country, support of civil rights and social justice, progrowth economic and tax policies and a strong national defense are still my politics. so maybe that means that jfk wouldnt fit neatly into any ...

The next two years but does long-term -- >> it is amazing spend really isnt coming up with obama. maybe he isnt in as strong a position if he would. maybe believes in these wars at this point. ive come to feel stephen carter in his new book talks about how obama is really prosecuting these wars with more ferocity at this point than george w. bush. hes done the surge in afghanistan. he has really shown himself to be something of a hawk when it comes to the wars. >> how depressing, ron paul. it se...

Cant have someone in that position who still thinks that there were weapons of mass destruction in iraq. >> is he too much of a hawk? >> is he too much of a hawk? well, absolutely yes. it was a pretty pivotal moment in 2006 when progressive s pry married him and through the iraq message, by beating him and showing that voters supported democratic politicians being strong on the iraq issue, that actually had ripple effects and had the entire democratic party to start talking about iraq which help...

Did it play in pushing this fellow out of electoral life. liebermans gone and what does it say about the power? we thing about it all the time. can it push a -- you can call him a centrist ill call him a hawk. youre watching hardball only on msnbc. [ female announcer ] sometimes you need tomorrow to finish what you started today. for the aches and sleeplessness in between, theres motrin pm.

Re-election. the guy who is known as a fiscal hawk and a may elected to congress in the early 90s and said if we dont have a balanced federal budget within a year i will not run for re-election and stuck to his word, by the way, but later came back and voted when a seat reopened in his home state and he said i can do more good on the outside than i can on the inside, what does that say to the american people about the effectiveness over congress? >> well, i think, you know, the fact that we saw ...

Order. bill: he was a fiscal hawk and says he can do better outside the senate than inside the senate and what kind of statement is that about the u.s. senate and karen hanratty and bernard whitman, karen and bernard, good morning to you. and heres the scenario now, you have democrats in the next election defending 23 seats in the senate, republicans only ten. how is that factoring in, karen? >> well, all we have is the political landscape as we know it today and as we know it today, kent conrad...

Joe lieberman takes the podium. >> okay. >> it is official almost. lieberman will not be seeking a fifth term. there are analysts, pat, that say he would have had a really tough road to re-election. do you find that surprising? >> no, i dont. quite frankly, he endorsed john mccain in 2008. he has been a militant hawk in the party. he lost his primary in 2006 in a democratic race. i think his time had come. he was going to get a real challenge in the democratic primary and face very tough republi...