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Would pull off dirty tricks and try to embarrass the movement by portraying them. listen to this. >> don't pretend to be me and then act as if i'm somebody i'm not. this idea of infiltrating our ranks, showing up at our events with your own goofy signs and making a general nuisance of yourself if not a horse's rear, you know, come on, that's called dirty tricks. >> reporter: it's also called a sincere form of flattery. they are imitating because the democratic left is afraid that the tea party movement will add momentum, energy and some level of intensity to the already fired-up republican bas...

Over. >> what about the pardon saying he did it on purpose because he knew people would be paying attention? what was your reaction when i said that? >> well i thought he was kind of rebutting some of the media criticism that he was trying to hide this on a friday night and just went back in the face oh, no, i did this on purpose. it's hard to tell what the motivation was. this is a base vote pardon. the country is divide odd this. i don't think he lost any votes over it. but, you know, to his critics it just gives them one more reason to pile on. >> putting the storm aside, we've been talking...

Level, it sort of leaves more openings not for the terrorists but for other players to offer them a different look at the world and the united states a position of leadership starts to fade away. >> i want to take a look at the president's approval rating. it's very low right now. take a look. this is the poll found 39% approval, 53% disapproval. who do you think he was playing to when he abandoned his hard line rhetoric? >> this wasn't the speech designed i believe to deal with his base whose been with him and will probably not consider this a big error that he didn't deliver a fiery speech t...

Factionallized now. i really don't believe all this talk about how he is going to drive passion down and it's going to affect turnout. i think what you see in republicans of every stripe is this passion to defeat the president and mitt romney will have a tough time in the nominating process. should he be the nominee, i think he's going to be okay. >> michael, this question was asked regarding idealology. in new hampshire the republicans at the primary, 21% consider themselves very conservative. 32% somewhat conservative, 47% described themselves as moderate or liberal. with that said, we're ta...