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Could have beaten this duet had a chance of beating romney because he wasnt that authentic. he was a terrible candidate and if you look at santorum and gingrich won that went into the mississippi river and the south. there wasnt a lot of pull for either of them in big states like new york or california and it would have been a long shot run and the interesting part of this thought experiment was if they had beaten romney and then gotten thumped which they most likely would have, and it was a rac...

Mississippi river and the south. there wasnt a lot of pull for either of them in big states like new york or california and it would have been a long shot run and the interesting part of this thought experiment was if they had beaten romney and then gotten thumped which they most likely would have, and it was a race about the economy and it was not a race about social issues and its not a race about the various flaws that gingrich has. right now the republican party is fast moving away from what...

Front about what was going on but the long-term damage to the church has been far greater and frankly, you know, people look at allegations like what are coming out and dont see -- they dont feel like giving the benefit of the doubt. they have seen this play before. you know, i love and i have no hope that this will actually happen but i love the proposal of how to deal with this and how to restore confidence in the church. he points out that the cardinals to gather to elect a new pope know that...

Smaller government, but, as a political matter, theyve always attacked government spending in the abstract nevada coming clean with the public only if we sharply curtail all popular programs. when i read that quote, what i immediately think of is the debate where governor romney identified big bird because the best that he could come up with in termings of a cut was pbs, which i think makes the point. >> michael, its a lot worse than that. you may recall that president obama, through the afforda...

Kept mrs. clinton on a short leash. >> issues regarding peace, war, iraq being afghanistan, war against terror, arab-israeli issue, israeli-palestinian negotiations, management of u.s.-israeli relationship these were run out of the national security council and the white house. all power flowed into the white house and from the white house. so the truth is it is a thought experiment. well never really know what hillary clinton could have done in an actual negotiation or creating a, owning an iss...

Get everyone to jump in 09, but they didnt have the buy-in of 7 billion people or of the ability to move all of them to one place. what if they did? they suggest we magically transport everybody into one place or imagine what would happen. everyone crowd into an area the size of rhode island. actually, lets make it rhode island. picture 7 billion crowded together with a single purpose in stately rhode island at noon, they all jump. now, physicists say that would send a pulse of pressure into the...

An environmental group tried to get everyone to jump in 09, but they didnt have the buy-in of 7 billion people or of the ability to move all of them to one place. what if they did? they suggest we magically transport everybody into one place or imagine what would happen. everyone crowd into an area the size of rhode island. actually, lets make it rhode island. picture 7 billion crowded together with a single purpose in stately rhode island at noon, they all jump. now, physicists say that would s...

Dont end the thought experiment there. after all, after jumping, people probably wonder why are we all in rhode island? maybe they plan the trip back to dublin or wherever theyre from. now, the entire crowd of 7 billion is trying to get out of rhode island all at once. cell phones get overrode, become useless. highways totally impassable. they predict you would be trapped in the biggest traffic jam in history. electricity would fail. we cant get fuel. people trying to make their way to new york ...

Capitalism, the morality of individualism, and this to me is what matters most. >> so there he is, praising ayn rands morality. theres paul ryan in 2009, still citing ayn rand as the moral philosopher who guides his thinking about capitalism and government. but fox news viewers didnt see that video and they never will see that video of paul ryan, for two reasons. one, it would involve brit hume or someone working for brit hume today to have done some homework. and two, brit humes job nowadays, a...

What matters most. >> so there he is, praising ayn rands morality. theres paul ryan in 2009, still citing ayn rand as the moral philosopher who guides his thinking about capitalism and government. but fox news viewers didnt see that video and they never will see that video of paul ryan, for two reasons. one, it would involve brit hume or someone working for brit hume today to have done some homework. and two, brit humes job nowadays, after a distinguished career in real journalism elsewhere, is ...