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To express their actual preference. the reason is that it is making it impossible for romney to simply just lock the race up and dry up the money from his opponents and the longer it plays out the longer there is an opportunity through these primary contests for a gop base that does not like mitt romney to tell the party establishment which wants to coalesce around mitt romney, between don't like mitt romney, we want another nominee. there is a bizarre consequence there. >> i think that's -- bizarre. and it is not the kind of thing that i -- i think we are going to get a lot of. the way this i...

Us still get along. >> let's talk about one of the core messages we expect to hear from the president tonight, and that is basic fairness. he is expected to call again for higher taxes on the wealthy. so, congressman, is that fair? >> well, i think it's a much bigger picture, this whole inequity or the inequality issue, i think it's a dangerous issue for the united states as a whole. when we start dividing americans against americans and start saying someone that's wealthy it's not a good thing or -- >> is it saying it's a bad thing to be wealthy if you're asking them to pay a fair share? if f...

Saying government needs to be the engine of spreading the wealth. that argument isn't very frequently made in american history. it's worked in the 30's i guess, but i haven't seen it work too much more in other decades. >> well, that speech in kansas, was an exercise in extraordinary populous demagoguery, but also an exercise in presidential demagoguery. let's not forget that barack obama is the president of the united states. that carries some inherent power and he when the president does this, it puts the opposition back on its heels, they're going to have to address this inequality issue. >...

Saying government needs to be the engine of spreading the wealth. that argument isn't very frequently made in american history. it's worked in the 30's i guess, but i haven't seen it work too much more in other decades. >> well, that speech in kansas, was an exercise in extraordinary populous demagoguery, but also an exercise in presidential demagoguery. let's not forget that barack obama is the president of the united states. that carries some inherent power and he when the president does this, it puts the opposition back on its heels, they're going to have to address this inequality issue. >...