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Philosophy ronald reagan on down is using government to help people. even the poor. the whole concept of trickle down economics is helping the poor. mitt romney is backing away from republican policies. they don't even believe this. the republican party's always stated that their policies help the poor and the middle class but mitt romney's saying he doesn't care about them. that's what's so devastating about it and republicans themselves are upset about what he's saying. >> steve, i did not ask you specifically, are you upset about what mitt romney said? as a conservative, as a republican. >>...

Trust me. i'm a talk show host. i'm a bit of an expert on this. there's certain phrases and things to say and once you use them it turns off the conversation. you cannot have a constructive conversation with people at that point and he's used some of that terminology, unfortunately. >> steve, don't you think the problem of mitt romney is he doesn't have a core. nobody knows what he believes. the republicans aren't convinced he's a conservative. democrats don't know whether he's a moderate or a conservative. everybody warned people about this. jon huntsman said he was a perfectly lubricated wea...

Away quite a bit. in fact, if anything, i think a lot of iowa republicans would just prefer that they take on obama by themselves without any help from mitt romney. >> but why is the birther issue, why is this conversation even taking place in the middle of the country? >> i think it takes place for the same reason that a dade ago, on the other side of the aisle, we were having conversations about bush lied and people died, and bush wanted to go to war in iraq to get revenge for the attempt on his dad. >> well, that was on tape. >> i think what happens is when you have a clash of world views t...

Questioned whether they were an american? i mean, it's really that simple. so you have fringes within the republican party that are saying this, i think, just, it just sends a -- it puts a bad taste in a lot of people's mouth, and it's just so counterproductive. it's just the worth type of politics. >> why aren't the democrats asking for mitt romney's birth certificate? i mean, his dad was born in mexico. i mean, how do we know? >> you know why, because -- >> here's what i think -- >> go ahead, steve. >> i think if unemployment -- i think if unemployment was at 5%, i think if the president had...

Earlier in this broadcast, we told you about republican congressman mike coffman of colorado. coffman told a group of conservatives at a fund-raiser that he didn't believe president obama is an american at heart. >> i don't know whether barack obama was born in the united states or not. i don't know that. but i do know this -- that in his heart, he's not an american. he's just not an american. >> coffman then issued a statement claiming he misspoke, but when asked to elaborate, coffman refused. not once, not twice, but five times, repeating this weak response. >> i stand by my statement that i...