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This summer face it with the primary season that left even republican voters wondering is this all there is? our question tonight, is it time for republicans to hit the panic button and start looking for other candidates even now? joining me now is an old friend ed rogers, former aide to president herbert walker bush. he goes way back. ahn msnbc political analyst david corn to enjoy the festivities. he is with "mother jones" a magazine that covers the republican party instinctively. republican voters don't seem to care for any of the candidates. take a look at the latest cbs/"new york times" n...

>> you are playing to a republican negative stereotype and i wish he hadn't done it. it is not going to drive votes. it won't make anybody vote one way or the other in november based on what rush limbaugh says. >> we should have more women on the show right now. >> this is the problem your party has. >> i agree. >> the problem the party has is that stuff plays. he doesn't say it for no reason. you have people out there who want to suck that stuff up and that's what mitt romney has so much problem with. >> the democrats are not without their whacky stuff. it's not -- >> rush limbaugh has lost h...

The way he wants to bring down the deficit. >> right. >> keep in mind, november is going to decide the fate of the bush tax cuts. not just his health care plan but the fate of the bush tax cuts. that's a lot on the line. i love where major is going with this because it is -- people need to realize that is -- we've not had sort of that sort of -- >> you mean elections matter. i like it when they matter. we have to go. >> fully engaged debate on taxes. >> i know. i really do believe elections should matter and they should respond to the result of the voters. listen to the voters, politicians, an...

>> we should probably spend time with sarah palin although she is hard to find. i'm not quite sure what she would be preferring to. i'm pro life, pro traditional marriage, i believe in the second amendment. >> a lot of this has to do with somebody's past, you know, where they -- were they pro abortion before and now perhaps they're pro life and what allowed that switch? kind of that flip flop. were they pro big government, pro increase of taxes back then? and where are they now? so it's subjective when you try to measure somebody's conservative quotient. >> i think she is talking about his pas...

Iran gets nuclear capability you see proliferation in the gulf and elsewhere. >> i wonder down the road about most of us who care about israel's future that have you to wonder what happens when all the countries go nuclear? what happens when egypt the new islamist governor coming in, they want a nuclear weapon. what happens when the new government in libya decides they want one. the previous government gadhafi was headed that direction. a new government in syria, which is islamist starts going that direction. >> you are jumping way ahead of where anyone is. the fact is most of these countries ...