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Manager was fired from his ju l journalism job. the tea party is rather split on mcconnell. the tea party network has endorsed mcconnell and rand pall who is a tea party favorite he has endorsed mitch mcconnell but seeing a tea party challenger jumping in. >> mcconnell's manager has led to these from the new republican. even mcconnell's campaign manager, can't stand him. from "the new york times" top mcconnell aide holding my nose to help rand paul. the democrat running in the race, of course, is kentucky secretary of state grimes. where does she stand in all of this? does it help her? >> oh, ...

Campaignes with thousands of donors would worry about whether any of them were funneling money to mistresses 0r hair cuts. the edwards came would be officially against the law. but at the same time, much larger sums of money from the same donors to candidates super pacs be still allowed. what you see on camera now and you know who this from the papers everyday, is still totally legal. and think about it, every complaint about the risk of the edwards payments, from owing certain donors to total lack of transparency is happening on a far grander scale with the super pac spending. that the state ...

Robinson and michael kinsly and others wrote about because he is overweight means he is undisciplined. it is just one of those last remaining vestiges of prig disand stupidity. in our -- prejudices and stupidity in our society. >> dana: what do you think? >> greg: absolutely right. the worst thing that happened to the presidency when they started joggin jogging in the dn shorts. that is an affront to society. i want my president rotund in a three-piece suit with a watch, possibly a cane and perhaps gout. >> eric: newt! >> dana: monocle. >> greg: yes! >> bob: i don't know who wrote that word "p...

And in to today. it comes on the day with a federal reserve chairman ben bernanke was up on capitol hill and said this. the recovery is close to faltering. we need to make sure that the recovery continues and doesn't drop back and unemployment rate continues to fall downward. not great words for the economy, though the markets seemed unphased today. what about the strategy by the president? and what he meant by all of that? mara? >> he made what michael kinsly used to say is definition of a gaffe in washington. say something that is painfully obvious. people are not better than they were four ...

This idea that there's a coming of the conservative republican party. >> and if you look at the results of this, you wonder who can win of the field that's out there, and then you also wonder about chris christie who frank rooney wrote about in the "new york times." because remember friday, eugene's piece in the "washington post." everybody -- >> started weighing in. >> they were weighing in. they put his picture up a week ago. >> it was a full-blown battle. >> yeah. so frank rooney who has had his own battle with obesity wrote an incredible -- >> haven't we all -- >> -- piece that was very ra...