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Whatsoever in helping buses get off the ground. that's right. forget stimulus money. forget infrastructure. forget public workers. the gop says we built it. and they are even going to play a song to drive the point home. ♪ ♪ i built it with may own hard working hands ♪ ♪ i built it no help from uncle sam ♪ >> ♪ no help from uncle sam you heard him. who needs the middleman? cut him out. i'm kidding. but this gets to the central debate in this election. the role of government. the gop wants to trim it back at all cost. no matter how important it is. even if millions depend on it. jus...

Fate of the party in the political view. >> when you have cruise and scott walker and you have this kind of blend, they are trying to give a more moderate image than the party's platform which could have been written by the most extreme right winger and some of the con ten us is right wing we heard in the primary season. >> yeah. i would say this. i think you will hear relatively extreme rhetoric from the podium tonight but it will all be on the issues of the economy, debt, deficit, jobs, things like that. i think you are more or less going to see them stay away from gay marriage, for instance...

83% believe positive it should be legal whshen a woman's life in danger. how can a gop justify their support of a platform that clearly does not have the support of the american people? >> well, a lot of the republicans who are actually voting on this platform are some of the most far right and extreme members of the party. you don't heart that language coming out of the romney campaign, obviously. and many convention organizers and romney campaigns i have talked to have said look, the republican platform is simply a piece of paper. we are not pushing that. in fact, many of the convention spea...

Reagan at the convention. here's a question. where did reagan's party go? the 49th anniversary of martin luther king's i have a dream speech, we are seeing an attack on welfare. the raep party is going after what his march stood for. well, i had all the classic symptoms... like the elephant on my chest... he thought he was having a heart attack. she said, "take an aspirin, we need to go to the hospital." i'm on a bayer aspirin regimen. [ male announcer ] be sure to talk to your doctor before you begin an aspirin regimen. i'm very grateful to be alive. aspirin really made a difference.

Convention center. and forget the party loyalists ask bosses. to john q. and mary q. watching tonight in tv land that was impressed with barack obama, they are going to be looking at him much differently than in that hall tonight. >> great point. the core of barack obama's political appeal as the keynote speaker in that speech was the fact he seemed to rebuke to the nastiness and combativeness of politics. chris christie seems to revel in the nastiness. now it is a question of whether that's what he is going to show to the nation tonight or he's going to be a bit more positive, bit more upbeat...