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And milton strategies. dan bartlett back at the table. good to have you this morning. a couple must reads to look at. >> you can ask a question if i can ask rattner a question. you go first. >> when are you going to man up? what happened, man? we republicans, we used to drive liberals crazy. we'd win elections we shouldn't win. we would steal senate seats we should never steal. we would shock -- they never saw it coming. willie geist talked about the morning after the 2004 election, you had liberals on the upper west sidewalking around like zombies. some of them walked straight into the hudson...

Campaign, you saw it play out on raising taxes on the rich, and again, it allows progressives to be lazy, frankly, because republicans are so far out in right field. i think that's bad for the country. >> dan, gene says the gop's biggest problem is not uninspiring candidates or unsound tactics, unpopular ideas. what do you think? ? if that were the case, i don't think you would have so many elected republican governors and wouldn't have a majority of republican legislatures throughout many states in the country. we're seeing real ideas put into place whether it be on education or pension refor...

Collapsing popularity a second term sounds so unappealing it's almost surprising obama didn't ask for a recount. it doesn't afflict every president. second, for many president, the woes of the second term are rooted in action and decisions taken in the first term which raises the dicey question about what might come to afflict this president. jeff, you did the laundry list. you look at nixon, wins 49 states, two years later, he's out of office. you look at reagan, who wins 49 states, the night of the midterm, iran contra is launched. bill clinton impeached, on and on. >> yes. except that, of c...

Today. it was like 7:30 at night, the kids are running around, you know. i said, what did i say? he said, you said we should pun punch, what, talk radio people in the face. >> well -- >> i said bullies. >> you meant that figuratively. >> if a person happens to be a bully, yes, pump him in the face. but he's not a bully, is he? >> he's not. >> he shouldn't be calling you. >>mi like michael nedvit. >> i think you posed it in the form of a question. what do you do to a bully? >> the answer was not a question. >> would you play along with this? >> you punch bullies that kick you around. >> absolut...