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Appointed. >> it shows you the value of clean living. thank you for the round table. perry bacon, sabrina siddiqui and john feeherry. when we return, an october surprise for everyone. youre watching "hardball" the place for politics. if we consolidate suppliers, whats the savings there? so should we go with the 467 horsepower? ...or is a 423 enough? good question. you ask a lot of good questions... i think we should move you into our new fund. sure... ok. but are you asking enough about how your...

Back now that hes walked the plank for the party? >> sure. our party is a big tent party. its an inclusive party and there are pro life democrats and theyre welcomed. and hes one of them. >> they werent welcome in 1996 when bob casey -- >> 92. i was there with governor casey so i remember it well. >> i was standing next to him when he wasnt allowed to even speak. >> times have changed. >> this is now. >> right. >> the big tent. thank you very much, tad devine. thank you, john feeherry. that does...

Themselves as right-wingers. >> is it all right to call barack obama a socialist? you say yes? >> listen, i dont know if he is a socialist. i dont think he classifies himself as a socialist. i think some of the things that hes doing makes a lot of folks concerned about where the countrys going. i dont think he identifies himself as a socialist. i think hes a liberal democrat. >> youre an honest man, im pretty sure. thank you ben smith for a great report for unleashing this torrent of excitement ...

Your party is using this to raise money, using fear, painting the president up like the joker, with white face. well, using things like extreme feelings toward existing administration. reactionary. even using the word -- your party doesnt seem to mind that word "reactionary" too much. your thoughts, john? >> chris, when i first came to the hill 20 years ago, i think it was bob michaels said dont say anything or put anything in writing that you wont feel comfortable with on the front page of "the...

Instruction class. >> the finance director, exactly. >> tell me how it was used. >> the finance director got up at this meeting of top donors and fund-raisers in boca grande, florida, february 18th and gave it as a powerpoint presentation to them. basically this is how we do it. we stroke the egos of the rich guy and we scare the small donors. >> what do you make of that, john? your party is using this to raise money, using fear, painting the president up like the joker, with white face. well, u...

Thats pretty rough stuff, ben. youve uncovered it. did the republican people at the rnc deny that this is their approach to getting money out of people? >> you know, michael steele distanced himself from it immediately, particularly for whatever reason from the joker cartoon. they want nothing to do with that. thats unacceptable. >> they whiteface the president. yeah. >> they have not really commented on the substance of it on the question of whether they havent really gone into detail one way o...

And so what youve seen -- >> paul oneils account, so many accounts on the inside of the treachery that went on. and now hes operating as sort of the st. john to the messiah whose coming back at the end of this year to sell his view. it looks like hes working in tandem with george w. to try to sell a war that the american people have come to believe was falsely sold to them, and the different bases than the real motive. the real motive was not nuclear threat, it was a desire from the bush crowd t...

Is this a winning strategy? well, republican strategist john feeherry is here, and ben smith broke the story for politico. ben, thank you for this. lets look at this page by page. youre most familiar with it. and john, you get in here, buddy, and defend it. page 25 is titled "tools for success." thats what this is all about. go to the next operative page, page 26 says, it says, "putting the fun back in fund-raising." thats fine. then page 29 is entitled, "motivation to give." here we get to the ...

I think some of the things that hes doing makes a lot of folks concerned about where the countrys going. i dont think he identifies himself as a socialist. i think hes a liberal democrat. >> thanks so much. youre an honest man, im pretty sure. thank you ben smith for a great report for unleashing this torrent of excitement by showing what the republicans are doing on the inside, but as john feehery said, the biggest mistake is letting it get to the outside, isnt it, john? they put it on paper. t...

Basically this is how we do it. we stroke the egos of the rich guy and scare the small donors. >> what do you make of that, john? your party is using this to raise money. using fear, painting the president up like the joker, with white face. using things like extreme feelings toward existing administration. reactionary. even using the word -- your party doesnt seem to mind that word reactionary too much. your thoughts, john? >> chris, when i first came to the hill 20 years ago, i think it was bo...