time around. they usually nominate, cenk, by prenomiture. although there hasn t been one gets the nod. and that s romney, but romney has several scarlet letters. he was for t.a.r.p. he had he gets blamed for obamacare because he negotiated with ted kennedy and the democrats in massachusetts. passed a version of it. that s close to death in the republican primaries. so i think you re going to see this year the possibility of someone coming from out of nowhere, it could be pawlenty. it could be newt gingrich. i personally want to endorse sarah palin. i think she representles the republican party and i think that she ought to be the nominee. the more that you talk about that and those are all great points, i m thinking that maybe it s thune. because newt gingrich is way too toxic, if you ask me. but real drama here is between romney and palin, and when you have that nuclear fallout, who is left standing, is the question? because let me play that drama
dilemma. they promised to cut, cut, cut. the minute they start cutting education, health research, cutting investment and infrastructure and science, they re going to run into a lot of trouble and they re going to suddenly discover that the president s on the right side of this issue. so i think the obama campaign is going to keep its eye on the ball and that ball is for the president to do the job on the economy and to communicate with the american people. if he does that, i think he s going to be in very strong shape, no matter who the republicans nominate. i look at this group of people you just went through, and i say, is that all they got? wow, i hear you on that. all right, thank you, bob. we appreciate your time. thank you. , thanks, cenk. let s get rapid-fire response from our panel on these stories. the associated press reports christine o donnell s under criminal investigation for possibly using campaign funds for personal expenses. and two black candidates running fo
really do that? it did do some things ask incoming speaker john boehner john bay. john boettcher, wrote it and asked ted kennedy, we can t, unfortunately, he has since moved on the. the one thing i would say on no child left behind, doesn t do anything that gets us where we need to go reauthorizing. i give george w. bush credit for unpacking the test scores of hispanic and ofafrican-american kids, schools that weren t failing in total used to hide all the test scores of those kids, now that is exposed to the light of day at least gives reformers at the grassroots level some teeth politically to move on on this these predictions will be sure i m good for two weeks. a couple of hours after we have announced them. i think they will be infallible and looking forward to this. jimmy williams, thank you for upinside dope as always. coming up on hardball, chris matthews looks at the right s latest scare tactics against the nation s health care law. but first, cenk
over american exceptionalism, in the 2012 presidential race. are we going to see, the republicans successful framing it that way, jim lehrer or you at the presidential debates asking barack obama in front of the american people do you believe in american exceptionalism and the republicans hope they get the same answer that turned people off before? i suspect if you asked the president that today, you will not get the same answer. american exceptionalism is one of these phrases that means different things to different people and it is a phrase that really does seem to resonate with the conservative base. whether this is going to, in fact, be a defining issue of the presidential election and particularly as we go into a general election, i m a little bit skeptical b. it does seem different than what other countries do karen. i wrote with a column recently on this when you say brazilian politicians really need to say we are the greatest can t that ever lived or do british
and the new congress comes back. what newt gingrich needs to do and our friends at fox news need to do as well is spend christmas each turning on and be seen and watching it s a wonderful life, where jamie stewart and that great frank capper movie with the big small time bang kers. and he was up against mr. potter the crooked banker who was trying to rip everybody out and put stewart out of business. that s real america, the jimmy stewart america. that ought to be our america. that ought to be what we re fighting for and i think when the congress comes back, the president is on a roll, there s no question about that. her ay reid and the democrats in congress are on a roll. they have a new fighting spirit that i think came out of the last election. and what we need to do is to reclaim christmas. reclaim jesus. jesus said, cenk you should sell your possession to give the proceeds to the poor.