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You can't win the argument by interrupting. what donald trump said 10 or 11 years ago when he was, by the way, a 59-year-old man, not some college kid, was outrageous. but he's said things like it over and over and over again pch he's said them in this game to megyn kelly. he said them in the first debate -- he just does it over and over and over again. i mean, i could go through all the quotes. piggy, i mean, we've seen them all. this is who he is. and i think it makes it very -- >> anything but the issues, right, bob? >> -- to take somebody that unstable. it's not just about his private sexu...

I seem to remember that al gore was publicly accused of being a sexual assaulter by multiple massagers in multiple cities in -- and she campaigns with him in florida today. >> would you forgive him for that and say he's a sinner and forgive him? >> i'm pointing out the hypocrisy of the left acting like a ten-year-old tape is somehow horrifying when the left in this country has been associated with radical social policies. >> bob, let me ask you to critique gary's answers. >> well, i think it's absurd. i think it's entirely unfair to bring up that charge against al gore, which was never substan...

Country, guessed wrong. we didn't see the intensity that there was there for the president, particularly among young voters. we oversampled male white voters. and, you know, you add all that together, and you're going to see two, three, four-point differences. plus, the assumption always is that the incumbent is not going to pick up any votes on election day. i think this time -- >> i think that's right. bob, you're a pro. let's go through the first one. perception is about the enthusiasm level. we were watching the last election. you could see well before the election of 2008 the excitement f...

Asking itself what went wrong and how they fix it. john brabender is a republican strategist and top adviser to rick santorum, and robert shrum, democratic strategist and columnist for the daily beast. john, you're on the inside. you know something about this. do you understand how somebody would think that the electorate that's going to participate in 2012, in a general election with barack obama, an african-american, a democrat, and a relatively popular president, would create a different electorate than the one you saw say in 2010 or in a primary situation? >> well, i think -- as you know, ...

>> bob, you taught them the lesson that first time. they should have been ready -- bob shrum, i'm out of time. always an honor to have you on. and john, you're always welcome here, sir. up next, something else that won't help republicans out of their mess, u.s. congressman louie gohmert is out there suggesting the obama administration is in cahoots with the muslim brotherhood. who is buying this malarkey? malarkey is a good word. this is "hardball," the place for politics. back to "hardball."