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Virginia and north carolina. and i can tell you whats on the peoples minds there are jobs. and economic growth. >> and youre saying this and youre being reasonable saying this. but these are republicans. these are people in your party that are doing this. >> well, yeah, but i think its people in the democratic party that seem to be raising the mormon issue on romn yerks. so these are marginal issues that really wont focus on the future of this country. what is at stake here in this election and ...

Owner of the chicago cubs, came out and said, this is not my kind of politics either. so it seemed the lesson learned is that this is a bridge too far, even for republicans. will there be a group out there deciding to do it? we dont know yet, thats one of the uncertainties of the new terrain we are in with citizens united in the supreme court decision that allows some of the independent groups to spend unlimited money. >> alex, you wrote about this in your latest "national journal" article. didn...

So i think there could be more of this. >> davids answer, ladies, having been that he thinks its slightly more fair to associate the president with reverend wright because of an admitted past. how about one do you think is m fair? >> i dont know that the reverend wright thing is a question of fair or unfair. i think its more a question of right and wrong. to this question of how fair is it to attack mitt romney for an ad he had nothing to do with, its not fair. neither were his attacks on the pr...

Not helping republicans in virginia. if virginia ends up going for obama again, i think it will be one reason why. this is not a state that is intolerant on social issues. it tends to be conservative on fiscal issues. but theyve gone outside the mainstream on some of these social issues. and certainly the language that was used in that green county newsletter was ridiculous. >> when you wrote this blog s this a mega frenzy, full frenzy or frenziette when you talk about the reverend wright story?...

Their country. now the names are barely visible. the department of accounting of general services say it got a fresh coat of paint and its barely visible because of the sooted. they are sickened because of the lack of respect. >> if you erase it, its disgraceful. >> the memorial was built back in 1944. scores of veterans naturally urging the state now to make the names more visible once again. and those are your headlines. hard to believe that the dirt actually made them more visible than cleani...

And said, listen, dont bring it up about race. lets make it about the economy. theres going to be a push to accept or reject everything that the super pac does. >> is there a bigger picture here? theres so many other things. if youre on the republican side of the fence and youre mitt romneys campaign, theres so many other things to criticize president obama on. why would you go back to reverend wright? why do i say that? there was a lot of play about reverend wright in 2008 and the voters didnt ...

Davis desire to proceed with this kind of campaign four years ago, there would have been voices thought to be the only way to take down president obama, i suppose, during this campaign. but misunderstanding where the country is right now. but lets be very clear, lawrence, about what this was about. this was about a back door way to inject race and fear into this campaign and to have a character assassination. remember. all of this is tied to a website thats called character matters which is part...

Today on "morning joe," brian a banger, the president of joe ricketts super pac the ending spending action fund, tried to distance the billionaire fans year from the proposed strategy to attack the president using reverend jeremiah wright. he spoke about a comment rickets made after seeing an ad with wright. rickets told the strategist, if the nation has seen that ad, they never would he have elected barack obama. baker said that was not an endorsement of the idea. >> perception did show one ad ...

Mitt romney calling off the pac, even though he doesnt have total control of it. is that the right thing not to focus on reverend wright and his relationship with president obama? >> i think youre absolutely right. i think romney made the wrong mistake just like mccain made the wrong mistake in 2008 and somehow this president and his white house advisors and his re-election team are intimidating republicans putting them on notice saying if you do anything or run any ad, were going to immediately...

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