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Other republicans who might not be up for re-election -- they think theyve got, they think theyll get 50 give or take democrats and need ten to get all the way to 60. >> how much of the difference do you think you have made? there was a variable bust gun safety movement in this country in the 1990s. partly because it had a lot of victories. partly because it was demobilized. now theres this kind of second wave of new crop. how much do you think that, how much role do you think theyre playing? >>...

Krauthammer. because this is the cause celeb tonight. colmes and i got it. and, again, i was probably too rough on. >> alisyn: alan, but i want to ask you what i asked stossel earlier. do you know of one specific federal program the president has said he would cut or any kind of specific cuts he would do to medicare or social security? just one? >> well, let me just say that from what i hear with your exchange from colmes no one died so thats the good news. specific cuts, no, i think the answer ...

No. >> bill: okay. i just want to stop you there. because this is important for the audience to understand why i got so upset. so, the president has been in office for more than four years, all right? he has not offered one spending cut in a budget of 3.2 trillion with a 17 trillion-dollar debt. thats flat out irresponsible. thats not a policy problem. thats a subversion of our financial system. and thats whats really worrying me about this. because, guys like colmes, continue to stick up for mr...

Groups? romney is still convinced that is the case. >> the president had the power of inincumbency. obama care was very attractive, and they came out in large numbers to vote. that was part of his successful campaign. >> the man who created romney care believes the affordable care act was romneys way of using patronage to secure votes? but again, romney asserts. his loss was a messaging issue, certainly not a policy problem. >> the weakness that our campaign had and that i had is we werent effec...

Handing out gifts to minority groups? romney is still convinced that is the case. >> the president had the power of incumbency. obama care was very attractive, and they came out in large numbers to vote. that was part of his successful campaign. >> the man who created romney care believes the affordable care act was romneys way of using patronage to secure votes? but again, romney asserts. his loss was a messaging issue, certainly not a policy problem. >> the weakness that our campaign had and t...

Of the country, but that hurt. there is no question that hurt and did real damage to my campaign. >> when the story came out why didnt he say just that? we all know that those 47% remarks werent just a one-time gaffe. romney made similar comments in a conference call to donors after the election blaming his loss on president obamas handing out gifts to minority groups. romney is still convinced that is the case. >> the president had the power of incumbency. obama care was very attractive. partic...

>> i dont. i agree with angela. you know, overall -- >> this is very disappointing. you have knocked every single one of them down. i put them all up. they can hardly complain we give them air time and you just eviscerate each one of them. one is corrupt, the other was hopeless and has no ideas, the other was a disastrous vice presidential run. where are we going? >> somewhere else. >> angela is right, the republican party doesnt just have a messaging problem, they have a policy problem. rand pa...

Precise kind of pay to play stuff that can really damage somebody in a republican primary, especially with people who look much more squeaky clean like christie and jindal. those are like mccain level reform type folks. they will be able to hammer him on this basic issue of ethics. >> we very much look forward to that. angela, what about rand paul? hes got a ready-made constituency lined up for 2016 on the basis of his father. and, you know, what do you think of him? doesnt he have the best rati...

Crime, stop. looking back on the latest electoral defeat, the republican strategists are clearly deciding they dont want to be known for having hard line politics that make them talk about women in ways that are creepy. which is why youre seeing the urging of republicans by other republicans to stop front-paging these believes. basically theyre saying, even if you think it, try not to say the government should force rape victims to give birth against their will. congressmen, you can think it but...

Federal level and state level where republicans on the state level control 60% of the governors. they have a majority of state senators nationwide. they have a majority of state legislators nationwide. but you get to d.c., and republicans in d.c., richard wolffe, my god. it reminds me of the famous quote of churchill. when winstons right, winstons right. but when hes wrong, my god. one of his friends said that about him. >> it was true. churchill also said that, you know, the definition of succe...