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He gave that speech and gave a little pep talk to the room on immigration policy and said, hey. you know, you guys did this really well before, back in 2006 you were melting the phones and stopping congress from passing immigration reform. now, ron paul also happens to be against immigration amnesty but those libertarian ideas that might be popular at the cato institute aren't popular with tea party activists. they're much more hard core conservatives who are really comfortable in the republican party. >> i feel where i'm getting to, and i am fired up about the tom pancredo call for the return...

Mccain, conservative palin voters who are conservative on everything really that is main stream the republican party. they're more like jim demint than ron paul. >> well, one of the most fun things in all of american politics for the past year has been trying to figure out the tea party movement, all this anger and energy in this movement, trying to figure out what it really means in political terms. they do articulate their grievances as if they are libertarian grievances. but from your reporting, you're seeing that really what they're asking for is not libertarian policies? >> economic polic...

Ultimately people will run out of things to say about barack obama about race. the question is does he have good judgment? he moving the country forward? he dealing with the issue of the economy? he trying to bring the soldiers home? he trying to get people jobs? and then race becomes irrelevant. i think that is the real key. not whether we can talk about it but whether we can agree to disagree on certain things but continue to have the dialogue as well. even thoughtful democrats and thoughtful progressive people, chris matthews, saying he forgot barack obama was black, and senator harry reid ...

Put a committed socialist idealoge in the white house. the name is barack hussein obama. >> he's made a living out of this schtik for sometime. what is important here is that a suggestion like that would be greeted with cheers from an american crowd. hey, let's go back to the ways we used to keep black people from voting in this country. >> mostly because i think we do not have a civics literacy test before people can vote in this country. >> tom pancredo, what an idea. the crowd cheering the proposed return to literacy tests for voting. the day after the speech one of the convention's organiz...

Voting. but what pancredo said is remarkable. most of the people who voted for barack obama were white. when you talk about literacy tests are you saying those people did not have the right to exercise one person one vote? i think it's part of thinking of using the buzz words, literacy test, that implies blacks because blacks have been denied that right. i think tom pancredo needs to read the constitution and think about what he means because there are a lot of black, white, and brown citizens all over america who have worked very hard to earn the right to vote and to tell them they are not ca...