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A conservative base all feeding off each other. and that means that if anybody, if the base tries to move or somebody within the conservative media says, well, lets try to moderate a little bit, then that ecosystem expels that person because its a threat to this giant industry thats been built up. fox news and all of the things that are around it. so its going to be really difficult for them to take that final -- that final move and i think its going to have to come from the top because the gras...

>> watching some of these republican officials now trashing mitt romney, the friday night before the election, we were in cincinnati, hundreds of romney top surrogates at the event. im backstage with them and they are you canning about him like hes a reagan and is going to win in four or five days and in fact some are positioning themselves for a romney cabinet. and i wont say who they are. they know who they are. they were on television. its unbelievable. five, six days later absolutely evisera...

Ryan straight. >>. >> they figured out that romney didnt work. i think a lot of people figured out that romney was a toxic candidate before he actually lost. i think a lot of times you get caught p in the capped da see and people saw the writing on the wa the. people were paying attention to the poll numbers. what im surprised about is that people havent thought about a path forward for the republican party. you can no longer win campaigning for the votes of white men. you have to campaign in a ...

What these guys have done is theyre willing to sack their own quarterback in order to get themselves into the game. those are not team players. these guys are like people on wall street who go in and short a stock which means you go and bet against it. you bet that the stock is going to fall and the companys going to lose money and you cheer for that to happen. because youve made that play, doesnt mean that youre a fan of the company just because youre getting in there. its a very unpatriotic th...

Break out the cheetos or goldfish too quickly. joining me now is author of "this is your country con drugs," from "the huffington post," ryan grim. you can have five on it. people will know what that means when you google it. you cannot break the law. it is against the law. >> right. you know, the dea is fighting a rear guard action and putting a lot of pressure on the states and actually watching what they do is pretty instructive. you know, in 2010, the dea asked eric holder and the justice de...

These seats, will they say it is time to purge these radical elements from our party? >> i think it wont happen. the radical elements are calling the shots. all of the money that weve seen come into politics after citizens united, most has gone to enforce strict party discipline on the republicans. the people most afraid of the tea party are people like john boehner. the base is so dependent on getting those people excited, theyre not going anywhere. >> joy reed and ryan grim, thank you for join...

Questioning because he doesnt appear to be at anyplace. >> when given a multiple choice test, they dloe throw away the pencil. >> the greatest quote about this is ted kennedy versus mitt romney in 1994 when kennedy said im the pro-choice candidate and mitt romney is the multiple choice candidate. >> he nailed it. that is a clip that should be on loop for some time to come. former governor from vermont, howard dean, thank you for joining me this evening. >> thanks for having me on, alex. the fi...

Both indiana and missouri are seats that the republicans had hoped to flip and that seems less likely now and a firewall could get a boost in massachusetts in perhaps the hottest senate race of 2012, senator scott brown now trails elizabeth warren. a poll shows warren leading brown by four point, 50% to 46 in massachusetts. joining me now are joy reid, managing editor of the grio and ryan grim, washington bureau chief for "the huffington post." joy, i want to go to you first in terms of the akin...

Getting those people excited, theyre not going anywhere. >> joy reed and ryan grim, thank you for joining me tonight. if you want more, i will be dorking out and following the senate races on election night starting at 6:00 p.m. with rachel, chris, lawrence, ed and al tuesday night. coming up, the bill clinton effect on the 2012 race. especially in the final sprint. and what the lily ledbetter act and a sound bite from 2007 can tell you about mitt romney. . sleek new styling... sophisticated...

Senator mccain supported. talk about dick cheney and then, thats what powell was doing, the information that the administration had supported. but is this sour grapes from senator mccain because colin powell also didnt endorse him in 2008 and supported then senator obama? >> well, al, you took the words right out of my mouth. thats just what i was going to say, that it is sour grapes, very much so for john mccain but also the fact that one of mitt romneys top surrogates in john mccain came out a...