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But he is still not going to win in iowa or anywhere else for that matter. not so for mr. willard mitt romney, who appears to be feeling mighty confident about his chances in iowa, a state he'd originally all but written off as lost.ç today the romney campaign announced plans for a four-day marathon bus tour across the hawkeye state in the final days before the caucuses. the weird thing is romney doesn't appear to be planning to get off the bus much. he has only ten stops planned in four full days of driving. some 770 miles. on wednesday morning, the day after the caucuses, romney is plannin...

are we possibly headed into further stagnation? >> well, you know, the political strategist side of things i've never had to look so much at politics to figure out where the economy was going. i tell you, it's like watching the keystone cops. it's gotten ridiculous. going forward we do have momentum carrying us into 2012. that's the good news. we hope we don't lose it because of political ineptitude. that's what would kill it. we have a lot of icebergs ahead. we hope politicians are better at navigating turbulent water than the captain of the titanic. that said, where are the positiv...

going to happen in 2012. tell me where you sit right now is 2012 going to be a better year economically than 2011? is there going to be economic growth? are we possibly headed into further stagnation? >> well, you know, the political strategist side of things i've never had to look so much at politics to figure out where the economy was going. i tell you, it's like watching the keystone cops. it's ridiculous. going forward we do have momentum carrying us into 2012. we hope we don't lose it because of political ineptitude. that's what would kill it. we have a lot of icebergs ahead. we...

Decades. >> i understand liberalism is a version of information because it often doesn't go in their direction. >> i've been studying this for a long time. medicare. how much longer are we going to have to wait for you to make up your minds? >> i wanted to get back to the issue of social mobility. i think it is the basic -- >> good. let's get off maijuana and on to this. >> it's a great embarrassment to the conservatives -- big government. who can i have sex with? who can i marry? what can i smoke? you guys, not on the whole, not argue, but it's the conservatives who want to intrude on persona...

Anti-romney. it's very cynical. that can help him. he's got an organization the republican party did not see coming. you put it very well in the first segment. >> romney is not going to spend $3 million destroying him the way he has with gingrich. >> the best man, sometimes you like to have somebody else take care of the mess and you can move in later. >> dave weigel from slate.com and msnbc contributor. somebody who i read every day but do not talk to frequently enough. thanks, dave. good to see you. congressman barney frank who you saw a moment ago making good sunday morning laughs on abc,...