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Welcome back to "hardball." back with msnbc political analyst pat buchanan and salons joan walsh. what do you think is the heat level if it turn out that the democratic national committee had been spending money on a lesbian bondage-themed club and dropped a couple "k" in the middle of the night and god knows young staffers enjoying to spend somebody elses money on this stuff. is getting off easy or is this a big problem or what? >> pat would never let me hear the end of it if that was the dnc, ...

Other point, pat and i will turn it over to you. the other reason this is hitting the pope right now, chris, is as cardinal ratzinger, as the person in charge of church doctrine, he was implicated. he wrote a letter that urged bishops, priests, archbishops to keep these matters pontifical secret. >> this was in 62. that is what is coming -- >> no he -- >> no it couldnt be 62. >> no he -- >> thats not have a im looking at a doctrine that came out -- well, a document that came out of the church in...

Will all come down? patrick buchanan msnbc political analyst and john walsh is editor and chief at salon. pat and joan, take a look at this new gal op poll. have dropped since he visited the united states two years ago. today just 40% of americans, generally, have favorable views of the pope. it was 60% among catholics and 35% among non-catholics. its gone down by about 20 points, on average. in those three categories. catholic, non-catholic and across the board. i want to go to pat firstane the...

Republican party? are you a republican? >> im an independent in virginia. >> are you a republican? >> pat, can i tell you -- >> okay. you just said our party. was that a freudian slip? i want to know whether pat is in or out as we used to say. as bob dornan used to say, in or out, buddy? >> i was an independent, ran as an independent in 2000. you dont rejoin the party because youre independent in virginia. theres no party registration. i cant say im a republican. do i vote republican? almost eve...

Weve gone to this iconic member. when i see you in old pictures, pat, like in houston when you gave the great speech, im amazed. youre a man of history. youre not just a guy on television with me. >> ive been to a lot of places way back there, chris. in 67 i was at that march in washington. >> were you one of the guys with the police? >> no, i came down with my press corps. i wanted to see it. they said they were going to levitate the pentagon. i didnt think they could do it. if they levitated i...

Letter, apparently let this priest go in 1996, he began has predations in 1950. rem blend weakland the archbishop of milwaukee knew about this for three years and writes the pope and says "should i defrock him?" why is the "the new york times" not going after? is a great liberal. let me say this. >> oh, please. >> dealt cards to the enemies of the church and the enemies of the pope. >> thats certainly the case and makes common sense to me but were talking about friends of the church. >> which pr...

Have no control whatsoever. your thoughts, joan? i think these cases are kids. its not a question of whatever kind of relationship we might say is out of order. were talking about criminal acts here. your thoughts? >> they are criminal acts and im glad pat and i agree about that. i think that in this case of father murphy, this awful priest, this sad, sad priest and sick priest whom molested the 200 boys im sorry to say you guys know im a person of mercy, im a person who believes people can chan...