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lincoln memorial for a rally to restore america s honor. thank you. how are you? i am on my way to fox. comment republicans, nobody s see is a sure thing. the economic recovery that they democrats were banking on is not happening. you have a huge enthusiasm gap. 3 million more republicans have turned out in the primary vendor than democrats. i don t think we know the full extent that one thing is clear, washington insiders are not in charge. what is happening out there? it is warm, sunny, unusually dry. the message of tuesday for democrats is that they are screwed them up we have seen that sarah palin has emerged as a leader of the republican party. she is probably the intellectual foundation of the republican party as well. it is not a good year to run as a washington insider. i think that is fairly well established. i don t know anybody who is doing so. >as inside as you can get. i was born at 14th and k. alright. a new york times editorial says republican incumbent on the far right did well in the primaries tuesday. what their campaigns like logic and compassion and policy seems to be counterbalanced by a fiercely committed voter base that is nowhere to be seen on the democratic side. however, insurgents incumbents did not win everywhere. this will be a consequential election. no one should have any doubt about that. no one is satisfied with the current condition of our country. i know arizonans like americans elsewhere are rightly concerned about the direction we seem to be heading in. staggering unemployment, a devastated housing market that shows little signs of improvement, a river of red ink. well, i would say that that pretty much states the case per you cannot argue with what he says. john mccain did win an impressive victory. j.d. hayworth was within single digits of him in the spring. john mccain pull together a formula which is make your opponent the issue. point out every fall, fogle, and flaw that j.d. hayworth had. fortunately for john mccain, it was not just a few. j.d. hayworth came with a lot of baggage not the least of which was our good friend the republican lobbyist jack abramoff. a game and this race would help john mccain spin off his talents from the right from j.d. hayworth and that is sarah palin. she went to arizona and spoke up for john mccain. that underscores the point i make about sarah palin being a political force but an intellectual force in the republican party. he is trying to bait made. i will not take the bait. far be it from me to do that. john mccain had dallied for a long time. he was the man in the middle the work of kennedy and feingold and he ran right. this year, if you run to the right, you generally win if there is no ideological difference as in the gubernatorial race in florida. scot who was the outsider, the guy with the money go runs against the guy who has been in washington forever, you win. if there is no ideological split, being an outsider helps you. generally speaking, this is a very ideological year. jo miller was and i know a lawyer from fairbanks, alaska until last tuesday and has the backing of sarah palin. this is a case where all those polls we talk about, we should stop talking about them. as much as the prognosticators cannot figure out. nowhere was down from lisa murkowski by as much as 20 points and the comes out of nowhere and the race is a draw. it will come down to the absentee ballots that have to be counted. sarah palin does have a lot of juice out there but most particularly in alaska she can resonate and endorsed him and elevated his campaign. combine that with a general frustration with washington and here he is, we have yet another republican incumbent who could go down in their own primary. i believe she would be the third republican incumbent. as further evidence that the real anger is on the republican side. the democrats have to be worried but they have abbacy apathy on their side and that is a lethal combination for the democrats. jo miller is fascinating. he is an anomaly. he is everything you say. he is an ardent conservative. he wants to privatize social security. he thinks unemployment insurance benefits are unconstitutional. more than that, he is against federal spending. in alaska, they get $6 for every dollar they sent to washington. that has been the organizing principle that every alaska politician of either party stands on. here is joe miller coming in with heresy. he does not want federal money. if that doesn t become an issue can sell can someone show joe miller a picture of ted stevens face? the guy in florida who paid $1.7 billion in fines? it was for medicare fraud. this is an issue that republicans tried to use against and in the primary. it did not go anywhere. we have to see whether independence can be swayed for these kind of arguments for and he is one of several very wealthy candidates where the money got them in but the money sometimes can become their biggest weakness. they get attacked from that front and we don t know how independence might respond to this kind of candidates. i think the democrats blocked blocked out on this guy. he was the weaker of the candidates and he was easy to beat because of financial history and problems. on the senatorial side, the republicans had a break because meek, the guy who was the establishment candidate who is a reasonable candidate, democratic, ran against greene who was an eccentric. when you have me in there, he will split the democratic vote with charlie crist which means that you ll likely get rubio for a victory as a result of the democratic primary. i will come back to that race later. i think it will help the republican candidate for governor. he is a popular figure. we will come back to politics [ male announcer ] there are many vehicles that claim to be just as capable off-road as the jeep grand cherokee. but without triple-sealed doors, a raised air-intake system, or even a watertight drivetrain, just how far off-road are they talking about? president obama should ask for a and insist on the resignations of the remaining members of his economic team starting with secretary tim geithner, larry summers of the head of the national economic council. they took a $237 billion offering surplus inherited from the clinton administration and left us with a $1.30 trillion deficit and in the processed quadrupled the national debt before we moved and turned in on the lights of the west wing. the vice president wants us to look back. what the voters heard this week was that on his watch, and then president obama, sales of new homes plunged, sales of existing homes dropped more than 27%, and that is a record. it is and i think john behner is hoping there will be economic recovery in this country. he wants it in and unemployment down to 4% and we get the manufacturing sector going. he would like to see economic recovery more than anything in the world. if you believe that, i have a bridge to sell you. this is great for the republicans. they want to stay like it is through the election. the gdp was much lower than expected, 1.6%. how do you escape that? what you are getting now is a return of fear. what we had for a year-and-a- half was bad economic a ticket conditions which hurt incumbents. we had a panic at the end of 2008 with the collapse of lehman brothers. that was new and it wrecked the governing party. what you re getting now with this unprecedented housing numbers, the lowest in 50 years, there is a decrease of gdp over the last three quarters, the market is retreating. you have people now afraid that we may have a double dip recession or even worse. that return i think is what will hurt democrats. it is bad enough that conditions are lousy and you are getting a slow recovery. the idea is you might be headed over a cliff and we had a sense of that in 2009 but we ever did that. obama was right when he said we pulled back from that it looks like we are heading into thelma and louise territory now. tim geithner says we are on the road to recovery. no, we aren t. why are people who know better sugarcoating reality? the answer is it s all about evading responsibility. this is not what behner s is talking about. we have not spent enough money is what tim geithner is saying. he wants another $1 trillion. that is not where john behner is on this thing at all. that is just ridiculous. whatever happens will happen on their watch and the democrats will be tagged with this. when you look at the clip that you set up their between behner and by then, that defines the messaging. this will be a class warfare election. it will look back and it will look for because both sides want to make that argument. i think jean is right. john behner has introduced the republican campaign with vagueness. that will be the agenda and the platform. you fire people and that is fine. the problem for the democrats is that the energizer bunny for the 2006-2008 campaign has disappeared. that is because of george w. bush being a circumspect and discreet former president. it makes it very difficult for democrats to demonize him again. he has become a non-person. he shows up at a ball game once in awhile. he has not said anything controversial. that makes it a tougher fight for joe biden to make a. and change was pacific. and change was specific. anybody who was out of power promises everything vaguely and tries to make an election and referendum on the incumbent. it will be a referendum on the incumbent. [ male announcer ] there are many vehicles that claim to be just as capable off-road as the jeep grand cherokee. but without triple-sealed doors, a raised air-intake system, or even a watertight drivetrain, just how far off-road are they talking about? there will be a battle royale when this issue of tax cuts and who gets the memo doesn t. the middle class really needs more tax cuts for its small businesses need more tax cuts spread the tax cuts for the super wealthy, they cannot count on me to stand by them. i am standing by the folks that work everyday. that is democratic congressman kendrick meet. k. he faces mario rubio and charlie crist. that is a tough battle. i think rubio will get a lift because the democratic constituent groups will organize around meek. jeff green, the bizarre billionaire whose yacht begin a big issue and his friendship with mike tyson and heidi fleiss and other figures are you cannot define a man by his friends. he made a mature concession he endorse meek and promised to help them and meek got on and blew the chance to make the case for himself. he thanked every town and hamlet and city in the state of florida. he thanked everybody on his christmas card list. it was pointless and he blew a great opportunity. the question will be where does charlie crist ago at this point? he is the republican governor and does he get the kind of finance and political support he gets to be competitive. if he does not, kendrick make could be more competitive. before we forget jeff green forever. when he was accused and drugs were used on his yacht, mike tyson said that he only used drugs off the yacht, never on the yacht. with mike tyson as your character witness, you have a problem. if jeff green had won, he could have easily been dumped. the democrats would have supported charlie crest in a one-on-one race. he would beat rubio. you now have meet in the race and he will get the african- american vote and the establishment democratic support. he will split the democratic constituency and rubio i think in the latest poll is up about 10 points. i think it is bad news for the democrats what happened in florida. i think that analysis i think we re headed to a split both of the anti-rubio votes. charlie crist has a lot of money in the bank. he will not vanish from the scene. he will be in there fighting and that will occur meek and meek will help hurt him. you look at where scott fits into all of this the republican establishment does not want got as their for governor but they do what his bank account out there. he can now finance a full-state get-out-the-vote operation which they were not sure they would have before. that will help rubio and everybody down the ticket. all in all, it is bad news for the democrats. is reported that top democrats are gloomy about holding on to the house. what about the senate? at the end of the day, i don t think we will see a republican takeover in the house or the senate. i think you are a minority right now than i am a minority in many things. am i the straight man here? after labor day, we will see the obama-type the presidential election. i will go back to make for a second. i think he was right as far as thanking all of his supporters because he needs to get going. he did not introduce himself to the mass audience but he introduce himself to people will help them in florida. this guy is not flamer at all. what will the new house and senate look like? from the republican point of view, the ideal situation would be that when the dust settles, there will be 220 democrats in the house and 215 republicans and 51 republicans in the senate and 49 republicans that would set up 2012. that would give the democrats responsibility. they would be without power and the ability to get things done. as hobbled as they have been with 59-40 in the senate in this term, it would be impossible for them to pass anything other than a mother s day resolution and the republicans could have no accountability going into 2012. bad for the country, good for the republicans. you wonder how the voters will react to two years of gridlock. we did not have gridlock. that is why the voters are mad. they passed health care reform. we did not have grid lock. we have health care reform, health care reform, financial reform, things past and that is what upset about is that the first amendment debate [ male announcer ] are you watching cable? 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is it in sensitive? is a provocative? those questions were asked. in this case, glen beck has a right to do that what he will do tomorrow. on this occasion, on that day, at that location given what he has said about obama being a racist and not liking white people, is inappropriate for him to be doing this? i will leave it up to those who would make that judgment about the mosque and answer that question. i do not want to dignify him with another comment. i feel like the glen beck controversy and the mosque controversy are very much insider stories. i have been out on the campaign trail. the people who are out there talk about jobs. they only talk about the economy. this is just fodder for us and cable news. glen beck, comment have your event but i will teach my daughter what honor and values are and he should take his own family. i think it is rather politically and has starkly interesting. the tea party has been thought of as a movement of opposition. it has been against what we might see and what he is trying to do is to try to put a happier and ford face on the movement and to speak about what it is about. it will be interesting to see how he and other speakers will frame it. i think they are trying to transition from an opposition into something that might better. the last word, thanks, see [ male announcer ] there are many vehicles that claim to be just as capable off-road as the jeep grand cherokee. but without triple-sealed doors, a raised air-intake system, or even a watertight drivetrain, just how far off-road are they talking about?