sarah palin on that. i think in a situation like this, it's not staff work. because staffing joe biden would be like staffing me and my language. it's difficult and long and painful process. i think if joe knew in retrospect, topic of conversation, he probably would have used different words. yes. that's the best i can do. all i got. >> brian: hold your fire for a second. >> kimberly: hold your fire. >> brian: i hold myself in contempt. i have no choice. the former vice president knows talent. >> obama and i were sitting at a desk at a high-rise in chicago. beginning to plan how we would try to get this economy out of a ditch. literally. the first guy i called was jon corzine. not a joke. not a joke. first, he is the smartest guy i know in terms of the economy, and on finance. i really mean this. >> my goodness. >> not a joke. >> remember when jon corzine were at goldman sachs and republicans had nice things to say about him. i suspect that joe said this before corzine's company went under water. if you h

he's got a great personality. >> so does sarah palin. >> so does sarah palin, granted. but yeah, he's getting a pass. and the questions aren't being asked. and maybe it is because 9-9-9 as simplistic as it is was a great slogan, it was a great bumper sticker for people hungry for some economic solution. and people haven't been focused on -- >> i think andrea's rightç the. i think the focus has been on the economy. there has not been the national discussion on international affairs, foreign affairs that would cause people to focus their view on actually what he's saying and does he really understand the intricacies here? that's a big part of it. >> isn't part of it sort of in the back of everyone's mind, we think this guy's going to go away at some point, these poll numbers are soft and he will no longer be the front-runner in iowa. >> i wouldn't count on that at this point. >> listen -- >> at this point -- at this point maybe not. but for the past couple of weeks, we've been looking at this rise and been like, well, there's really not much there. everyone else has fal

i don't see a decline from edmund burke to sarah palin. i see her in many ways as the fulfillment of the conservative tradition. >> host: one of the many liberal complaints about sarah palin and the same complaints were made against bush and reagan, was that she is, not smart enough and i know you go to great lengths to talk about this idea. you talk about the notion that conservatives say that nothing could be further from the truth. first, why do you think that myth has been propagated especially by conservatives and what do you mean by couldn't be further from the truth? >> guest: let's start with the left. certain people on the left have had a traditional view of conservatives and the right which is as i say as a defense of power and privilege and i subscribe to that view but i think the left has historically gotten one aspect of that wrong which is they think enterprise of defending power and privilege is a self-executing enterprise. and otherwise if you have privilege and power you just defended and what i argue is what is so fundame

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she is wrong but the point we're trying to make here, conservative, like sarah palin would say no. start far right if you have to move it to the center in the general. isn't that the plan? start right and move to central. >> dana: that happens in any primary. think about hillary clinton and barack obama battling it out for the democratic primary. they were far left. i don't think you have to have work on a campaign know about politics. >> bob: i read her books. >> brian: wouldn't you get -- you might lose conservatives but you pick up independents if you are a moderate. >> eric: listen to sarah palin. let's do this. i have to do this. i am sadbeed, i wish she was in the race -- i am saddened. i wish she was in the race. she would be the one. >> brian: somehow would be your one? >> eric: absolutely. has been for four years. listen to her on greta van susteren last night. >> romney needs to reach out to fiscal and social conservative, the tea party independents and really show his authenticity and explain what are perceived and real flip-flops over issues that he has been called out

you have compared him with sarah palin and i read your wonderful column today. you are almost suggesting that sarah palin by comparison is einsteinian. >> yeah, this guy didn't realize that china had nuclear capabilities. they have had them for a very long time. at least sarah palin could use the excuse of russia being next door to alaska and if putin wanted to rear his -- i watched the tape, where does he go? right here in alaska across the border. the selection of sarah palin and how woefully unprepared she was to be the 2008 nominee for the gop paved the way for herman cain to be even less prepared and a front-runner for the gop nomination as we speak. >> wonderful. >> i think jonathan is absolutely right about that. out of sarah palin, the gop embraced this whole anti-intellectual we don't need someone who is an ivy league grad. we need common sense. >> you don't need to be educated. >> that was the thinking. common sense principals and people that agree with us to get in there and fix things. he is a charming person. >> what are do you think about the blame

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>>guest: well, i loved sarah palin. i have tremendous high regard for her and i think she held her own very well as the vice presidential candidate and i honor whatever her decision is if she would like to get in or not i have the highest regards for her, her talents and her ability and she has been undersold but i'm also a presidential candidate, as well, and i think what i bring to this race being consistent constitutional conservative i have strong economic cre citizen shalls, both as a federal tax attorney and also very successful we business creator, but who sits on the financial services committee and i also understand foreign affairs. i'm the only candidate that has been involved i classified brief ensure for the last five years, now most particular on the intelligence committee dealing with the national security and classified secrets of the nation. this is an area where our next president as commander in chief will be tested almost immediately and that president needs to understand the very delicate relationshi

>>guest: well, i loved sarah palin. i have tremendous high regard for her and i think she held her own very well as the vice presidential candidate and i honor whatever her decision is if she would like to get in or not i have the highest regards for her, her talents and her ability and she has been undersold but i'm also a presidential candidate, as well, and i think what i bring to this race being consistent constitutional conservative i have strong economic cre citizen shalls, both as a federal tax attorney and also very successful we business creator, but who sits on the financial services committee and i also understand foreign affairs. i'm the only candidate that has been involved in classified brief ensure for the last five years, now most particular on the intelligence committee dealing with the national security and classified secrets of the nation. this is an area where our next president as commander in chief will be tested almost immediately and that president needs to understand the very delicate relationsh

against jack conway, sarah palin, mike huckabee and rudy giuliani all giving endorsements in the kentucky attorney generals race to mr. p'pool. with 80% of precincts reporting, jack conway defeated the republican challenge from p'pool, 56% of the vote for conway the democrat and 44% for his republican challenger. in indianapolis, the incumbent republican mayor greg ballard facing a challenge from the democrat named molina kennedy. resul results so far with 87% of precincts reporting, ballard appears to be holding on at this point, 57% of the vote against his democratic challenger with 47% of the vote. in virginia, where republicans already controlled the governor's office and the majority of the house, tonight's races could give them a majority in the state senate as well. until tonight, democrats had a 22-18 majority in the virginia state senate. a net gain of two seats for republicans would flip the senate so they would control

. >> reporter: even former alaska governor sarah palin has weighed in speaking about sandusky on fox news. >> hang him from the highest tree. i'll bring a rope. >> reporter: mike mcqueary said he witnessed him assaulting a boy in the shower in 2002 before alerting head coach joe paterno, is under fire for not doing more. in an e-mail obtain by associated press in an e-mail said i did stop it physically before i left that locker room. i did have discussions with police when i left that locker room in charge of police. no one wants to be in my shoes for those 35 to 40 seconds, trust me. he described his emotions in his brief exchange with cnbc news. >> all over the place. shaken. >> reporter: crazy? >> crazy. >> you said what, like a -- >> now globe. >> reporter: like a snow globe?

coming up, sarah palin. she explained the difference between tea party protesters and the occupy wall street protesters. you will hear from what she said moments from now. ♪ ♪ = ♪ ♪ >> bob: welcome back to "the five." that song is dedicated to greg. i don't think sarah palin is a fan of the occupy wall street protesters, nor do i much care. listen to what she said. >> they say wall street fat cats got a bail-out. now i want one, too. and the correct answer is no one is entitled to a bail-out. the american dream, our foundation is about work ethic and empowerment. not entitlement. >> andrea: is that endangered species? tiger? >> greg: great jacket! >> bob: sarah palin is back in the news because she can't stand to be out of it. >> eric: i watch it and saddened by the fact she is not in the race right now. given that comment right there, what she said right there embodies everything. the tea partys are about smaller government, fixing the company and the country, not about entitlement. that costs more

they have been kept very busy this year by donald trump, sarah palin, michele bachmann, herman cain, herman cain's smoking guy, rick perry's ranch, rick perry's brain, the serial polygamous newt gingrich, and the accidents of polygamists, all running for the honor of losing to president obama in the presidential election of 2012. >> yesterday obama unveiled his deficit reduction plan with yet another fiery speech from the rose garden. by taxing the rich, there is a name for what obama is trying to do here. >> i don't think i would describe class warfare as leadership. >> yes, it is class warfare. and that is unfair to rich people, who, generally speaking, would prefer not to fight our wars. "the washington post" reports that the rick perry family hunting camp once had a racially charged name. you see, the hunting camp was evidently called -- whoo, okay. how do i put this. okay, okay. um, um -- >> governor chris christie making a stunning announcement! >> what i've always felt was the right decision remains the right decision today. now is not my time. the answer was never anything bu

alas magazine story i wrote was about sarah palin's nonexistent natural gas pipeline. it was in her next-to-last issue. i did not quite close it up but i came close. i spent three weeks in alaska researching that story. without padding, my expenses came to $12,000. most magazines will not even pay the fee of $12,000 anymore. what is a writer to do? this is where i look at the gentleman to my right and i look at "the atavist" and i say this as my savior. this is where we can still do the kind of work i like to do. we do not have to make decisions on simply commercial but tell the stories that we want to tell and reach of smaller audience. he can make money because he does not have the overhead. i think that "the atavist" is one of the most important steps forward. they're very few people who support themselves solely by writing anymore. i have a lot of novelist friends who already said that the one thing that would never do is teach. i can find them now on faculties all over the country because they cannot sell their books. now they are teaching. likewise the work i am

sarah palin announced she would not seek the nomination for president. on the first page of the first chapter, turning the title around. you say that john mccain's choice of palin as his running meat was -- mate was a most unconservative movement. your indictment against her seems to contradict at least glide past the glaring reality which is that she is incredibly popular among right-wing conservative. so was the decision tapping into something that had yet to be exposed or exploited? >> i think when i said that, i was trying to show a consecutive honest of view that you saw in 2008. there was quite few people at that time who were extraordinarily nervous about sarah palin, from within the republican party, and i was trying to ventroliqu "i" e. she was clearly extraordinarily popular with heir base and in many ways anticipated this eruption of grassroots activity on the right -- eruption is the wrong word because this has been long-standing for 40 or 50 years, but she was a hard by jerry of that. and that's the real point i'm trying to get at, is that i

sarah palin recently announced she would not seek the republican nomination for president. on the first page of the first chapter perhaps turning the order of your subtitle around with a sarah palin, u.s.a. john lachey -- john mccain's choice was most and conservative decision and come in that u.s. combat ill considered and imprudent. clearly they lost. but your indictment seems to contradict or glide past the clearing reality that she is incredibly popular among the right wing conservatives. was said this is gin ill considered or they tapping into something that had yet to be exposed to? >> when i said that i was trying to ventriloquizes a certain point* of view that you saw around 2008. there was quite a few people up that time who were extraordinarily nervous about sarah palin. some within the republican party and i was trying to put out what they were saying. clearly she was extraordinarily popular with her base and anticipated this eruption of grass roots activity that is the wrong word because s she was a harbinger of that and that is the point* i am trying to get out

get video of sarah palin, or get a soundbite from her, bring that back to us. you can hold the ron paul stuff. >> jon: uhhh... uhhh. the thought of covering him amuses me. ( laughter ) yeah. i wish my-- ( applause ) so the media has basically declared all four of those other candidates dead, yet somehow the zombies continue to be allowed to the podium. you know why that freaks me out? these people don't even know they're dead ( laughter ) it's like the entire republican primary is some type of n. knight shamalan picture. you are getting better at condensing the story lines. bachmann and perry got to bathe in the spotlight of being the front-runner like two months each. even cain got a month before they declared him dead. so now, yesterday, newt gingrich is declared your front-runner, which means we'll soon be finding out new reasones yes he sucks. >> newt gingrich, he's being dogged by a report that he earned $1.6 million consulting for mortgage giant freddie mac. >> jon: whoa! give it to them straight, doc. how long's he got? >> he's dead on arrival. >> i don'

. >> sarah palin recently announced she would not seek the republican nomination for president. on the first page of the first chapter perhaps turning the order of your seven title you start with sarah palin saying john mccain's choice as his running mate was most and conservative decision. considered imprudent and clearly they lost 2008, but your indictment against her seems to contradict or glide past the clear reality that she is incredibly popular among right wing conservatives. so was the decision ill considered or was he tapping into something that was yet to be exposed? >> guest: i think i was trying to ventriloquizes a certain more a establishment conservative point* of view that you saw around 2008. there was quite a few people at that time who were extraordinarily nervous about sarah palin in the republican party and i was trying to put what they were saying is she was extraordinarily popular with the herb asean populated this eruption of grass roots activity on the right and that is the wrong word because this is a long standing 40 or 50 years and she was a harbinger

here is former governor, fox news contributor, sarah palin. thanks for being with you. >> thank you. >> we see the violence but one police officer had 20 stitches and a gash, things thrown in their face. you see the violence. this is really just a culmination, though. we have seen rape, we have seen arson, destruction of property, sex, master bation in public, antisemitism, anti-americanism, drugs, and what do you make of this and the democratic party support for this? >> it is amazing president obama and vice president obama and speaker nancy pelosi and others have embraced this movement and patted these folks on their back as they have engaged in these really atrocious activities. i think it speaks to what part of that mission is on the left, and that is disruption, it is distraction. has very miss guided and either folks that are ill-informed, not understanding who or what it is they should be protesting. if they truly want free men and free markets in this country, then they should be, you know, making their voices known as 1600 pennsylvan

are you a sarah palin republican? >> well, listen, i was asked to introduce her and nominate her because i think i was about the only person who actually knew her. after john mccain had picked her as a running mate. i was chair of the western governor's association. i worked to a limited extent with sarah palin, so when you're looking with somebody who can actually go up and nominate her, i was asked to do it, and i did as told. >> so you mean you pumped up the case there? you didn't really believe that the country was waiting for sarah palin? >> i wanted to help my good friend john mccain. i wanted to help his ticket. i wanted to move the republicans toward victory and i stepped up and did what i thought was right. >> do you think she was capable of being vice president of the united states? >> i think absolutely she was capable of being vice president. she was elected agovernor. she served a couple of years well. i think she would have learned a lot on the job. >> you share some of her views? >> well, i haven't put

get video of sarah palin, or get a soundbite from her, bring that back to us. you can hold the ron paul stuff. >> jon: uhhh... uhhh. the thought of covering him amuses me. ( laughter ) yeah. i wish my-- ( applause ) so the media has basically declared all four of those other candidates dead, yet somehow the zombies continue to be allowed to the podium. you know why that freaks me out? these people don't even know they're dead ( laughter ) it's like the entire republican primary is some type of n. knight shamalan picture. you are getting better at condensing the storyines. bachmann and perry got to bathe in the spotlight of being the front-runner like two months each. even cain got a month before they declared him dead. so now, yesterday, newt gingrich is declared your front-runner, which means we'll soon be finding out new reasones yes he sucks. >> newt gingrich, he's being dogged by a report that he earned $1.6 million consulting for mortgage giant freddie mac. >> jon: whoa! give it to them straight, doc. how long's he got? >> he's dead on arrival. >> i don't

sarah palin is saying that congress has been occupying wall street long before anybody ever pitched a tent. now the government is making money off the expense of others and it is all "fair game" and it is all next. >>> also, we are waiting to hear from presidential candidate mitt romney. he's talking jobs and the economy in new hampshire. we'll bring you some of that live straight ahead. >>> but first, a question for the political junkies out there. newt gingrich in the news for fees he earned advising freddie mac but he insisted he wasn't a lob lobbyi lobbyist. so how many former members of congress now work at lobbyists? we'll tell you in a second. [ artis brown ] america is facing some tough challenges right now. two of the most important are energy security and economic growth. north america actually has one of the largest oil reserves in the world. a large part of that is oil sands. this resource has the ability to create hundreds of thousands of jobs. at our kearl project in canada, we'll be able to produce these oil sands with the same emissions as many other oils and that's a

martha: even sarah palin weighed in on this whole penn state scandal. alaska's former governor supporting the penn state players and telling greta van susteren "on the record" last night what she thinks should happen to the former defensive coordinator charged with 40 counts of child sex abuse. >> it is not the players fault they have have a perverted former assistant coach. i would like to see the players not suffer more than they have suffered. as for the perp and perps though that allowed the sinfulness to go on as they had allowed in the past, you know, i say about this assistant coach sandusky, hang him from the highest tree. i will bring the rope. martha: well the question came up when greta asked what sarah palin thought about rick santorum, penn state, his alma mater should not be allowed to play in a bowl game which is something that has been discussed. bill: 11 minutes past the hour some of the stories we're watching and more coming you this morning including this debt committee. it is coming down to the wire possibly deadlocked. with 15 trill

but sarah palin isn't in the race. or on the ballot for the following day's vote. >> i do come back september 3. >> straw polls in the past. >> good morning. >> somebody in the top three has gone on to win the nomination. >> a volunteer for straw poll for the first time. >> after today we might see drop-out. because they don't have the means to make it in the national scene. >> the candidates all buy tickets for their supporters to show up and cast ballots in a straw poll. it's supposedly shows the strength of your support. because you are able to marshal the troops and get them to show up. >> campaigns also buy spots to pitch their tent. where they provide food and entertainment for iowans they hope are supporters. >> ron paul bid $31,000 for the most coveted next to polls. >> all it shows is who is willing to pay the most money to secure a win. >> the candidate with the most money to spend isn't competing. >> i wish he had come. he spent a lot of money here four years ago and it didn't get him anywhere. >> bret: romn

but sarah palin is not in the race. or on the ballot for the following day's vote. >> i do come back to september 3. >> straw polls in the past, somebody in the top 3 has gone on to win the nomination. >> robin is volunteering at the straw poll for the first time. >> after today, we might see some drop out just because they don't have the means to -- to make it in the national scene. >> the candidates all buy tickets for their supporters to show up and cast ballots in a straw poll t. supposedly shows the strength of your support because you are able to marshal the troops and get them to show up. >> campaigns buy spots to pitch their tent, where they provide food and entertainment for iowans, they hope are supporters. ron paul bid $31,000 for the most coveted, next to the polls. >> really it shows who is willing to pay the most plony in order to secure a win. >> but the candidate with the most money to spend isn't competing. >> i wish he had come. but he spent a lot of money here four years ago and didn't get him anywher

but sarah palin is not in the race. or on the ballot for the following day's vote. >> i do come back to september 3. >> straw polls in the past, somebody in the top 3 has gone on to win the nomination. >> robin is volunteering at the straw poll for the first time. >> after today, we might see some drop out just because they don't have the means to -- to make it in the national scene. >> the candidates all buy tickets for their supporters to show up and cast ballots in a straw poll t. supposedly shows the strength of your support because you are able to marshal the troops and get them to show up. >> campaigns buy spots to pitch their tent, where they provide food and entertainment for iowans, they hope are supporters. ron paul bid $31,000 for the most coveted, next to the polls. >> really it shows who is willing to pay the most plony in order to secure a win. >> but the candidate with the most money to spend isn't competing. >> i wish he had come. but he spent a lot of money here four years ago and didn't get him anywher

they like people who attack government, people like sarah palin. she spent two years discovering it was more to her liking to be outside of government than running alaska as its governor. the same goes for most of the candidates who show up for these republican debates. ron paul is a critic of government as such. he doesn't want to run the government. he wans it so shrink down to a size where anyone can run it. the republicans face the awful outlook of having two candidates still standing for president. one they don't like, don't trust, really don't want to see in the white house. don't want to have to defend once he gets there, if he gets there. the other really is not likely to get to the white house but embodies and his soul the tea party mentality, which is you don't have to know anything about government to run against it, which is what tea partyers do all you need is an unexplained self-confidence you can do whatever you set out to do, that you need to apologize for nothing, need to demonstrate knowledge about nothing. how does this play out?

are you a sarah palin republican? >> well, listen, i was asked to introduce her and nominate her because i think i was about the only person who actually knew her. after john mccain had picked her as a running mate. i was chair of the western governor's association. i worked to a limited extent with sarah palin. so when you're looking for somebody who can actually go up and nominate her, i was asked to do it, and i did as told. >> so you mean you pumped up the case there? you didn't really believe that the country was waiting for sarah palin? >> i wanted to help my good friend john mccain. i wanted to help his ticket. i wanted to move the republicans toward victory and i stepped up and did what i thought was right. >> do you think she was capable of being vice president of the united states? >> i think absolutely she was capable of being vice president. she was elected as governor. she served a couple of years well. i think she would have learned a lot on the job. >> do you share some of her views? >> well, i haven't