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Ideas and views, but theyre united around a common cause. over the next couple nights in "welcome to the tea party" well be drilling down deeper. joining me, john avalon, columnist for the dailybeast.com. and author of "wing nuts: how the lunatic fringe is hijacking america." it has changed, the tea party movement, in some ways over the last year. >> it has. this began as a grassroots fiscal conservative protest. over the course of the summer it got increasingly radicalized. some conservative ac...

The event. outraged building over health care reform and town hall meetings every other day or so there were fistfights, anger was escalating. hundreds of independent tea party groups have sprung up. members are competing political ideas and views, but theyre united around a common cause. over the next couple nights in "welcome to the tea party" well be drilling down deeper. joining me, john avalon, columnist for the dailybeast.com. and author of "wing nuts." it has changed, the tea party moveme...

Columnist for the dailybeast.com. and author of "wing nuts." it has changed, the tea party movement, in some ways over the last year. >> it has. this began as a grassroots fiscal conservative protest. over the course of the summer it got increasingly radicalized. some conservative activists advocating conservatives start using rules for radical and see them start to embrace street-theater politics. politics of confrontation. the woel whole thing got uglier. just because the guys with the obama e...

Consensus is important, people are working to try to find solutions to problems. not just win elections and score political points. >> joe, hold that thought. i thought the same thing as i watched president obama speak in front of house republicans in baltimore the other day at their retreat. i said, why cant it always be this way? a lot of people in my demographic and younger wonder, why do you have to belong to a certain party? why do you have to be a democrat or republican? why cant you just ...

Through the countryside intimidating people. >> yeah, thats a bridge too far. in "wingnuts of the week," weve hit people against using hateful metaphors, whether the kkk or adolf hitler. the right reasons to dubuque joe wilson has nothing to do with his outburst logically returning to the return of the kkk. that raises more debate and raises stakes in a way that doesnt cross the common sense barriers for most americans. >> there are well respected people like president jimmy carter who did say t...

The obamas power, the emperor has no clothes and the media provided the wardrobe. you a brainy, chubby kid, newt, against mitt, the teachers pet. >> kimberly: i like that. >> andrea: look at the number of the other candidates. another thing that romney has going for him is ron paul and other candidates are splintering the vote. ron paul, he is going to stay in the race. he wont get out. he is launching attacks against newt gingrich. this is beneficial for romney. it may be romneys secret weapon....

I think you know and mike barnicle knows ive got nothing but love in my heart. nothing but love in my heart. but it really has to be irritating to these wing nuts that keep calling me a rhino that i know the republican party better than they know the republican party. ive got the republican party nailed down. i know the heart of the republican party. they know the heart of nut bar land. so let me just say herman cain, flavor of the week. he will not win the nomination. by the way, say all the ug...

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>> its easy. we see in the paper these days, wall street bonus -- enormous as they have ever been, with unemployment still in the high teens when you really count it. this is where the economy is still imbalanced between the financial sector and the creative sector. and this is a fundamental choice that hes got to make, if hes going to reclaim the hearts and souls of the american people. >> i mean, i love that. i agree with you. but what does he do about those big donors next time around? >> the...

>> gary, appreciate it. tonight plenty of raw politics for our panel tonight. were also going to be looking into allegations being made against her democratic opponent. trying to see whats true and whats not about him. but first john avlon, senior political writer for daily beast and author of "wing nuts," erick erickson, editor in chief of red state.com and john ridley editor and founder of thatminoritything.com. and an npr commentator. erick, what do you make of this, on fox news saying everyo...