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This kind of sectional politics rearing its head. you try to capture more modern history here, and set up to an ebook about the return of the republicans, out on tuesday for politico. this is what you write in the introduction. the dawn of 2009 was supposed to inaugurate a new political age, after a decade of war and a year of epic economic collapse. a young democratic president unscarred by the cultural conflicts of the clinton years promised a post-partisan ethos, conservatism was said to be dead. except it wasn't. beginning in early 2009 dispirited republicans said while the presidency may ...

Barack obama, nothing else would. the rebirth of the right is an extraordinary tale by historical standards it was a rapid shift, on par with the 1966 conservative backlash against lyndon johnson's great society after the 1964 land slide. and as conservatives well know, that drama ended with the election of a republican president in 1968. how did american politics get from the there of a new age of obama to the here of a resurgent right? that's a big question. >> it's the question, seems to me. we were all sitting around in 2009, and this was a new era. it was an entirely different time. and i...

Reason to abandon the life he has. i'm not -- i think he could be a king maker. he will have influence on who the nominee will be. i don't see him helping particular candidate right now simply by his absence. >> bret: let's talk about newt gingrich who had an interesting interview over the weekend and has since tried to walk some of this back. after a big conservative backlash. take a listen to this. >> i said consistently, we ought to have some requirement the you have health insurance or you post a bond or indicate you will be held accountable. >> that is the individual mandate. >> it's vari...

Reason to abandon the life he has. i'm not -- i think he could be a king maker. he will have influence on who the nominee will be. i don't see him helping particular candidate right now simply by his absence. >> bret: let's talk about newt gingrich who had an interesting interview over the weekend and has since tried to walk some of this back. after a big conservative backlash. take a listen to this. >> i said consistently, we ought to have some requirement the you have health insurance or you post a bond or indicate you will be held accountable. >> that is the individual mandate. >> it's vari...

>> shepard: and newt gingrich may have heard his cause over the last 36 hours, according to many observers. >> yeah. a strong conservative backlash has developed since the former house speaker appeared on "meet the press" yesterday morning and there described the budget plan put forth by paul ryan, the republican congressman from wisconsin who speaks for the gop on spending issues as a radical example of right wing social engineering. rush limbaugh today calls gingrich's comments mind-boggling and accused the former speaker of cutting ryan off at the knees. gingrich admitted his language may h...