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Out of bounds by republicans during the smash mouth presidential campaign are now back in bounds, that stuff s now okay, then i want to know is there any new line? is there anything anymore that is too much of a low blow? joining us now is jonathan alter, newsweek senior editor and columnist and msnbc contributor, his latest book is the promise: president obama year one. hi, rachel. hi. is there less of a downside in a midterm than there is in a presidential election to a latching the party on to one of these obama s a muslim far-right guys? i don t think they re even kind of making that cool, political judgment. they have just become a talk show party. you know obama asked them, the republican leadership, point-blank in february of 2009, in a private meeting that i have in my book, do you want to be the party of rush limbaugh? and they didn t answer the question, but the answer s apparently yes. they are willing to latch ....
Political judgment. they have just become a talk show party. you know obama asked them, the republican leadership, point-blank in february of 2009, in a private meeting that i have in my book, do you want to be the party of rush limbaugh? and they didn t answer the question, but the answer s apparently yes. they are willing to latch themselves to these extreme folks. and this represents a pretty big change in american politics, because we re not talking about obscure back benchers, we re talking about the leadership of one of our major political parties, and there is a very strong possibility that john boehner will be the next speaker of the house of representatives, in line, in presidential succession. in term of john boehner s role, though, we talked a week ago about whether or not him becoming an opposite number to pesident obama for these elections was a good thing for democrats, or a good thing for ....