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Republicans unfortunately have to answer to every republican politician that does not reflect especially well on the party. she may be back because there is a possibly competitive senate race and al franken is up for his first reelection effort. she may challenge al franken. >> jon: it would be an interesting race. it would give you plenty of stories. >> i agree with you, atlantic wire's read there was into the surveilled article pointing that the republicans wanted her gone out of that particular district. >> jon: moving on to check the chickers. george mason's university center are for publi...

Had mentioned, she really just wants to be a top recruiter -- not troublemaker, provocateur in the republican party. while she wants to do that, she need twoz thins two things. she needs to have a platform and also raise money and continue to do be able to do that order to help the candidate she supports. that's the question mark. can she still get that money going? some recent reports the spigot is going very slowly now. >> apparently she spent about 5 million bucks in 2012. >> on consultants. >> less than $300,000 went to actual candidates, which is even stranger. james, this is the thing th...

Convincingly back in november. we lost based on the ideas. we based on the message. we lost based on the tone. and so what i think what you are hearing here, it's finally a group of thought leaders within the republican party whether it's jeb bush, bobby jindal, chris christie, reince priebus are saying we have to be much more thoughtful about our message but just as importantly, we have to develop a relationship, not just with the individuals out there that have certainly been the base of the republican party, which are white males but with brown people, with people that are -- that look much...

Citizens and whether the country as a whole can have a scheme like this under the u.s. constitution. so the supreme court will be ruling only on the issue of whether the federal government is entitled to impose this kind of a mandate. >> could you let me bring you back in? the atlantic wire had a survey. a survey of supreme court clerks and lawyers found that most of them expect that at least the central portions of the president's health care law, only 35% survey thought the high court would nix the individual mandate there. i'm not one to run the numbers games here. but when you look at this...

In iowa we doubled the independent vote from 2008 and we won it 3-1. governor romney does pretty well with independents, too, up here. but i think we can beat him with independents if we get a big turnout. >> let me ask you. your father sponsored 620 bills in his 11 terms in congress. and just one became law. the atlantic wire wrote this. they said paul's approach to law making is particularly suited to not getting things done. is that the kind of -- when someone reads that, wow, do you want that guy as president? >> i would say it's not completely fair. i've been there a year and i've had fou...