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Rational choice. >> i do think in 2010, we were watching all of these races around the country and these tea party candidates winning. these candidates fantastic at the theater of hard right politics. and theres a tendency to look at that profile of candidacy and say thats whats going to resinate in 2012. it worked in 2010. sharon angle wins -- theyre going to want that for their presidential candidate. but theres something different in the presidential year even among the base of primary voters...

Come out and i think its not a lack of enthusiasm, just a lack of dynamic between the parties. >> sean: and the polls are showing palpable real fear that obama may get reelected and a fear for most people tends to be a great motivator and i think thats going to show up by the general election. >> yeah, but if you look at it and go down the line, you can see theyre unenthused, unenthused about mitt romney, think hes a flip-flopper and santorum, they think hes a big government conservative, great ...

Is an unquestioned hero and patriot is something which i value personally and of course, i think its a good statement politically that we are coming at this time as a party to get behind folks we believe in. >> sean: there is a bitted of an irony here. in 2008, senator mccain, you were viewed as less conservative than mitt romney. you struggled with conservative voters, especially during the primaries. governor, you were viewed as the more conservative candidate. in this race, it seems like in m...

Is an unquestioned hero and patriot is something which i value personally and of course, i think its a good statement politically that we are coming at this time as a party to get behind folks we believe in. >> sean: there is a bitted of an irony here. in 2008, senator mccain, you were viewed as less conservative than mitt romney. you struggled with conservative voters, especially during the primaries. governor, you were viewed as the more conservative candidate. in this race, it seems like in m...

Had two full days to clear up the questions surrounding this story. and i think as you detailed just now, he has left in a lot of ways more questions than answers. so i think until we get some more clarity on exactly what kind of settlement he may have been aware of or why he first said he wasnt aware of one, then later sort of miraculous remembered that he was aware of some financial details -- >> yeq but let me get to a tougher point. let me ask you a tougher point as a journalist. i know tha...

im not getting into that. >> i think what the real focus is here again is on religious tolerance. thats really what this is about. and i think again to make this a big issue is just ridiculous right now. >> were covering all the angles for you. paul steinhauser is in washington. and shannon travis is in iowa. lets go ahead and start with you, paul. bachmann and cain ducking the debate shows. just how delicate the balancing act proves, i guess, how delicate that balancing act needs to b...

A tea party activist is challenging house speaker john boehner in the republican primary in ohio. the ohio congressman beat out two other candidates for his house seat last year. boehner won 85% of the vote there. he would not comment on the cincinnati inquirer to that paper about the challenge but we do have the challenger on air with us today. his name is david lewis. he joins us live from columbus. first of all, good afternoon to you. >> good afternoon, craig. its a pleasure to be on your sho...

Constructive conversation about immigration then in the same breath he mocks his critics saying they are alligators. ridiculing that dare disagree with you impugning motives. is that a civil way and constructive way to approach things? >> candidate obama is addressing this. put this in perspective. three weeks ago president obama announced his reelection campaign. for the past three weeks he has had white house meetings with amnesty special groups and his voting base. then we had this mission ac...

A forgiving god. i would like you to expand upon that as you went through some of those difficulties, how you saw gods forgiving nature in all of that. >> well, i mean, first of all, theres no question that times in my life, partially driven by how passionately i felt about this country, that i worked far too hard, and the things happened in my life that were not appropriate. and what i can tell you is that when i did things that were wrong, i wasnt trapped in situation ethics. i was doing thing...

Why does he feel to make ludicrous excuses for his behavior? why not say i messed up and move on. >> whoever is advising him is giving the most bad advice. the most appropriate thing he should have done would to not only apologize to the ex-wives but to apologize for the american public. women are looking at this, the conservative voting base is looking at this and an apology is more important than anything else. i did wrong, this is between me and god, but i did something very terrible and regr...