rick santorum, thank you. what a pleasure to have you here. thank you. rick santorum. one of the leading prolife profamily voices in the country. his perspective is an important one as we evaluate this pick this weekend by mitt romney. so what is the first thing that a romney/ryan administration might need to do? we will talk to, well, why not senator charles grassley. after all he happens to be the senator for iowa. so i think we will just bring him on and talk to him when we come back. stay with us. >> mike: well, we are back and we are in waukee, iowa. really enjoying this fantastic group of people who are with us on this live broadcast. [ applause ] >> mike: and i'm especially delighted to be able to welcome to our show senator charles grassley of iowa. >> thank you. >> mike: senor, you have seen politics many, many years and every presidential candidate has to come through iowa if he or she ever wants to make it to the big show. mitt romney has now become our nominee and made his selection today. paul ryan is going to be the vice presidential pick. your reaction?

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and thank you to senator santorum. i say senator santorum, in my opinion gave the best speech of the night bar none. he was not billed as the guy that was going to do that, but i think he did a great job, but that said, with andrea trying to nail him on the issue of whether or not the president did try to remove the work requirement, the president did no such thing, mr. santorum's only explanation was to blame governors who might have requested that flexibility. those governors of course would include mitt romney when he was governor of massachusetts. so the welfare attack still just factually absolutely disastrous for the republicans, but they don't seem to care. i do have one correction to make. i referred to senator santorum as my dear friend, i was lying. he's not my friend. he won't even talk to me. that was wishful thinking. >>> coming up ezra klein. on chris christie's view of the public sector and what's actually been happening the last few years. this is msnbc's live coverage of the republican convention. >>>

ettinger santorum was also the author and the floor manager. -- senator rick santorum was also the anger and a floor manager birkhead he wrote and championed the legislation that allowed partial birth abortions. each and every individual has a value. [applause] he has fought to maintain fiscal sanity in washington. he has fought for a balanced budget and a line item veto. he proposed reforming entitlements, cutting spending, and develop a spend-o-meter. he believes passionately that we must repeal obamacare and replace it with a bottom-up patient driven system. kristin, he wants patriot voices, an on-line community of americans committed to promoting faith, family, and freedom. he is the author of the 2005 "it takes a family." he is continuing the fight to give every american in place. [applause] >> thank you. thank you very much. enjoy your time in happy valley. let me thank all of you for a wonderful kind words that so many of you gave me. i had a chance to chat briefly with everybody. i was free grateful for your support. i have to recognize one person who is here tonight. her father

rick santorum, thank you. what a pleasure to have you here. thank you. rick santorum. one of the leading prolife profamily voices in the country. his perspective is an important one as we evaluate this pick this weekend by mitt romney. so what is the first thing that a romney/ryan administration might need to do? we will talk to, well, why not senator charles grassley. after all he happens to be the senator for iowa. so i think we will just bring him on and talk to him when we come back. stay with us. >> mike: well, we are back and we are in waukee, iowa. really enjoying this fantastic group of people who are with us on this live broadcast. [ applause ] >> mike: and i'm especially delighted to be able to welcome to our show senator charles grassley of iowa. >> thank you. >> mike: senator, you have seen politics many, many years and every presidential candidate has to come through iowa if he or she ever wants to make it to the big show. mitt romney has now become our nominee and made his selection today. paul ryan is going to be the vice presidential pick. your reaction

let's roll the tape. >> rick santorum, another economic lightweight. >> is rick santorum ready to be president? he has never run a business? never run a state. and a proud senator who voted for the bridge to nowhere. >> we voted him senator, a-- we senator, and why would we vote him president. >> let me catch my breath there. >> isn't it much for governor romney to be complaining about the negative attacks? >> i don't get the sense that governor romney is complaining about the negative attacks, but he will tell you as much as anyone else, you are in a political race and you are going to take the blows and go after each other, but he is talking about the tone of the obama campaign and it is divisive. and it is one thing to attack him on his record, and fair game. go for it, but to go after him for dividing the kun tcountry, t is. it is class warfare at the worst, and then you saw vice president biden, and you know, play the race card in virginia. this -- >> did he play the race card? >> y'all? y'all is y'all. when you are in a group, and i have been in groups like that, and you know,

rick santorum, another economic lightweight. is rick santorum ready to be president. he has never run the business or the state. a washington politician that proudly voted for the bridge to nowhere. we fired him as senator. why promote him as president. i'm mitt romney and i approve this message. >> let me catch my bret for a minute. >> you are a top surrogate for the romney campaign. isn't it a bit much for governor romney to be complaining about negative attacks? >> i don't get the sense that governor romney is complaining about negative attacks. i think he will tell you as much as anybody else, you are in a political race. you are going to take your blows. you are going to go after each other. that's all fair game i think what he is talking about is the tone of the obama campaign, which is divisive. it is one thing to go out and attack governor romney's record. fair game. go for it. to go out and do what he is doing as far as dividing this country and he is and it is class warfare at its worse in this, and then you saw vice president biden play the race card in vir

. >> ladies and gentlemen, please welcome rick santorum. [applause] >> thank you. thank you very much. thank you. bless you. thank you, pennsylvania. it is great honor for me to be here tonight, with the love of my life, karen, over here. and my 93-year-old mother from florida. and some of my children. my oldest son, john, wanted to be here tonight, but he is a first-year cadet at the citadel. [applause] so i just want to say to you, i am proud of you, son. thank you. i am a first-generation american. at the age of seven, my dad came to johnstown, pa., from the mountains of northern italy, on a ship named providence. how providential, that one day his son would announce for president, just down the road from the deep mines where his father, my grandfather, mind:-- mined coal until he was 70 years old. when my grandfather died, i remember kneeling at his casket and not being able to take my eyes of his thick, strong hands, hands that but his path in life and days hit -- gave his family chance at living the american dream. working the minds m

. >> i think when you compare him to rick santorum, he is even to the right of rick santorum. sanatorium was viewed as completely out of step with the american public. >> yeah, you are right. and this is the reemergence of the extreme religious right. in 2008 john mccain didn't have these social issues up front deliberately. but mitt romney has decided to put them right back on -- with paul ryan, right back front and center. i got to tell you, nobody is happier with paul ryan being on the ticket than rick santorum and ralph reid and gary bower, and pat robertson, and the extreme religious right. >> right. rick santorum wanted to be the poster boy so he will be jealous, but you are right. [ laughter ] >> very quickly the last issue of the three guns where paul ryan has toed the nra line on every vote. >> every vote. and that's fine. but the nra has given you an a as you pointed out earlier, and he is against any background checks, even sensible background checks which i think most law enforcement officers support. >> hunting is fine by me but you don't need a semi automatic gun

rick santorum, thank you. what a pleasure to have you here. thank you. rick santorum. one of the leading prole profamily voices in the country. his perspective is an important one as we evaluate this pick this weekend by mitt romney. so what is the first thing that a romney/ryan administration might need to do? we will talk to, well, why not senator charles grassley. after all he happens to be the senator for iowa. so i think we will just bring him on and talk to him when we come back. stay with us. [ male announcer ] it's a golden opportunity... to drive a car filled with as much advanced technology as the world around it. with the available lexus enform app suite, you can use opentable tmake restaurant servations... search wi bing... and listen to pandora. presenting the 2013 lexus gs, rx and the all-new es, the leading edge of the leading edge. during the golden opportunity sales event, get great values on some of our newe models. this is the pursuit of perfection. get great values on some of our newe models. it's something you're born with. and inspires the things

rick santorum promises big announcement on friday. rick santorum's campaign released a statement promoting a major campaign announcement on friday at 6:00 p.m. okay, setting the tone for the weekend of coverage. here we go, friday at 6:00 p.m., be there or miss out on a big announcement in the republican presidential campaign. here's how we covered the anticipation of the big announcement the night before it was to happen. >> rick santorum, bless him, said today he would have a big announcement tomorrow in iowa. there are no indications the big announcement is that he's quitting, but never a good sign the first thing everybody asked are you quitting. far from it. rick santorum was preparing to unload this bomb shell on the presidential race. >> i am announcing today and have announced that i am going to be voting and supporting senator rick santorum on january 3rd in the iowa caucuses. you know, the first time -- [ applause ] >> who's that guy? anybody? rick santorum's the whole country ought to be paying attention because there's act

rick santorum was not quitting. far from it. he was preparing to unload this bombshell on the presidential race. >> i am announcing today and have announced that i am going to be voting and supporting senator rick santorum on january 3rd in the iowa caucuses. the first time- >> who is that guy? anybody? rick santorum's major announcement is he got the endorsement of the secretary of state from iowa. somebody in republican politics said they have a big announcement, i am starting to hear a little boy out newscast yard yelling wolf! wolf! it has nothing to do with the man with the beard at cnn. when they say there is a big announcement coming, that is a suddenly to ignore them. the chairman of the republican party this week announces exclamation point and all that he is going on the greta van susteran show to make an exciting announcement. are you ready? i hope you are sitting down. >> big news about the republican national convention and you are first to hear it here and we have that announcement. >> i'm proud tonight to announce

. >> this is a good night for rick santorum. i want to congratulate senator santorum. wish him the best. keep campaigning down the road. >> this is an unusual interview. do it again. >> huge vote for massachusetts. take the victory to the white house. >> thank you, pennsylvania, delaware, rhode island, connecticut, new york. >> new jersey, 50. romney. >> bret: it has been a long and sometimes bumpy road for mitt romney. but he has now achieved what he set out to do at the beginning. getting all of the votes needed to become the republican party nominee. he will accept that thursday night. bring in the panel. mara liasson, national political correspondent of national public radio. syndicated columnist charles krauthammer. juan williams, columnist with the hill. bill kristol editor of sandusky. one of thsand --"weekly standar" one of the biggest speeches is ann romney tonight, wife of mitt romney. we just received excerpts. i will read some of this. she will say tonight i want to talk to you about love. it read somewhere that mitt and i have a storybook marriage. well, i

rick santorum, thank you. what a pleasure to have you here. thank you. rick santorum. one of the leading prolife profamily voices in the country. his perspective is an important one as we evaluate this pick this weekend by mitt romney. so what is the first thing that a romney/ryan administration might need to do? we will talk to, well, why not senator charles grassley. after all he happens to be the senator for iowa. so i think we will just bring him on and talk to him when we come back. stay with us. >> mike: well, we are back and we are in waukee, iowa. really enjoying this fantastic group of people who are with us on this live broadcast. [ applause ] >> mike: and i'm especially delighted to be able to welcome to our show senator charles grassley of iowa. >> thank you. >> mike: senator, you have seen politics many, many years and every presidential candidate has to come through iowa if he or she ever wants to make it to the big show. mitt romney has now become our nominee and made his selection today. paul ryan is going to be the vice presidential pick. your reaction

it seemed on the social issues and pretty much in every other respect, he's like rick santorum with brains. >> bill: there is a good analogy. if you wanted somebody -- he's as far out there as rick santorum is on all of the social issues. >> caller: i think he's farther out. i just don't understand where this guy is coming from. he's such a hypocrite. his dad died when he was 16. and he used that to help himself go to school. he got himself a college education with ssi then he wants to -- now he wants to eviscerate the very program that helped him get through. >> bill: totally. he's also a guy who has brought home a lot of bacon to his district from -- what do they call those? tax offsets and all of that kind of stuff in congress and then he reels against them and wants to shut them down. the onion is unpeeling a little bit. people peeling the onion. we'll learn more and more about paul ryan. jerry, great to hear from you on the west coast. let's go down to the republican santa cruz california. hi justin. >> caller: great to hear you again. >> bill: what's up? >> caller: well, paul ryan is

so devoted to santorum. not only do they have doubts about mitt romney's mormonism but lots have doubts on him about the cultural issues. what's interesting to me, since santorum and romney have never appeared together on the stage -- >> here he is, rick santorum is about to speak. so let's listen in. former republican presidential candidate. >> thank you, thank you very much, thanks. thank you. thank you. it is -- thank you. bless you. thank you. thank you, pennsylvania. it is a great honor for me to be here tonight. with the love of my wife, karen, over here, and -- my 93-year-old mother. from florida. and some of our children. my oldest son, john, wanted to be here tonight, but he's a first-year cadet at the citadel -- [ applause ] and -- so i just want to say to you, john, proud of you, son, thank you. i am a first generation american. at the age of 7, my dad came to johnstown, pennsylvania, from the mountains of northern italy, on a ship named "providence." how providential. that one day his son would a

, rick santorum was in exactly no danger of ever getting that opportunity, right? but, of course, in a year when republicans were excited about none of their choices, everybody did get a turn to be on top of the polls, even rick "birth control is not okay" santorum got his turn. rick santorum's political capital briefly rose among republicans this past year, and so did his early 20th century-era opposition to birth control. when health and human services secretary kathleen sebelius announced in january that insurance plans would be required to cover preventative services for women, including birth control, as of today, suddenly in the year 2012, virtually the whole republican party started fighting against access to birth control like they were defending hickem field in hindsight. the republicans spent about a month in february inveighing against access to birth control. which must have felt great to them, until they noticed stuff like the polling showing 40% of voters being less likely to vote for the republican presidential nominee because of his pledge to elimin

rick santorum was not quitting. far from it. he was preparing to unload this bombshell on the presidential race. >> i am announcing today and have announced that i am going to be voting and supporting senator rick santorum on january 3rd in the iowa caucuses. you know, the first time -- [ applause ] >> who's that guy? anybody? rick santorum's major cam feign campaign announcement is that he got the endorsement of the secretary of state from iowa. when somebody in republican politics says they have bag announcement, i am starting to hear a little boy out in the yard yelling, "wolf! wolf!" and we're not talking the man with the beard at cnn. when they say there is a big announcement coming, that is a suddenly to ignore them. the chairman of the republican party this week announces exclamation point and all that he is going on the greta van susteran show to make an exciting announcement. are you ready? i hope you are sitting down. >> big news about the republican national kuhn vengs convention, and you are first to hear it here and

rick santorum and ron paul have speaking. i would say rick santorum will be an interesting watch. all right guys. >> he has to tone it out. >> go out and have a nice dinner. plenty more on the factor. did the man who attacked the family research council do so because he was encouraged bypass a liberal and berny wright about a bias issue. we hope you s we asked over 3,000 doctors to review 5-hour energy and what they said is amazing. over 73 percent who reviewed 5-hour energy said they would recommend a low calorie energy supplement to their healthy patients who use energy supplements. seventy-three percent. 5-hour energy has four calories and it's used over nine million times a week. is 5-hour energy right for you? ask your doctor. we already asked 3,000. >> 28 year old querkins was indicted boy the jury in washington dc. court shot and wounded one man before he was wrestled to the the president of the frc said he believed that he was spurred on by a liberal group. >> they disagree on marriage and religious issues and labeled us a hate group and that gives license to lunatics like

rick santorum, thank you. what a pleasure to have you here. thank you. rick santorum. one of the leading prolife profamily voices in the country. his perspective is an important one as we evaluate this pick this weekend by mitt romney. so what is the first thing that a romney/ryan administration might need to do? we will talk to, well, why not senator charles grassley. after all he happens to be the senator for iowa. so i think we will just bring him on and talk to him when we come back. stay with us. [ male announcer ] it's a golden opportunity... to drive a car filled with as much advanced technology as the world around it. with the available lexus enform app suite, you can use opentable tmake restaurant servations... search wi bing... and listen to pandora. presenting the 2013 lexus gs, rx and the all-new es, the leading edge of the leading edge. during the golden opportunity sales event, get great values on some of our newe models. this is the pursuit of perfection. get great values on some of our newe models. it's something you're born with. and inspires the thing

. >> rick santorum, bless him, said today he would have a big announcement tomorrow in iowa. there are no indications the big announcement is that he's quitting, but never a good sign the first thing everybody asked are you quitting. far from it. rick santorum was preparing to unload this bomb shell on the presidential race. >> i am announcing today and have announced that i am going to be voting and supporting senator rick santorum on january 3rd in the iowa caucuses. you know, the first time -- [ applause ] >> who's that guy? anybody? rick santorum's the whole country ought to be paying attention because there's actually a big problem in ohio for this year. we all remember the ohio voting disaster that was the presidential election of 2004, an estimated 170,000 ohioans leaving their polling place without voting because the lines there were just too long. by the way, that is a significantly larger number of voters than the margin of victory by which george w. bush won ohio. something going on in ohio that i can't believe isn't more of a front-page story around the country. e

what did you make of what senator santorum was tub thumping away with? >> i believe i agree with the first thing he said, hello, thank you for having me on the show. >> anything else? >> no. >> i was trying to get to the anytimy nitty-gritty of this whole debate. you are making a signal to the world that basically you endorse his financial plan, his budget plan, even if it's not the exact one. you're going along with the idea behind it. less government. less tax action. many people interpret it as helping the rich. and taking some from those who need it more. that is the democrat view, isn't it? >> i think it is. i think it's more than just the democrat's view. if you look at romney's budget and what romney himself says about paul ryan's budget, he was very appraising of that. it is basically the document blueprint that forms a foundation of what they're doing. so i don't think the efforts that it seems like they're engaged in to say, well, he wasn't actually endorsing the ryan budget makes any sense. it is his budget. if you look at what he said. >> i m

what did you make of what senator santorum was tub thumping away with? >> i believe i agree with the first thing he said, hello, thank you for having me on the show. >> anything else? >> no. >> i was trying to get to the anytimy nitty-gritty of this whole debate. you are making a signal the world that basically you endorse his financial plan, his budget plan, even if it's not the exact one. you're going along with the idea behind it. less government. less tax action. many people interpret it as helping the rich. and taking some from those who need it more. that is the democrat view, isn't it? >> i think it is. i think it's more than just the democrat's view. if you look at romney's budget and what romney himself says about paul ryan's budget, he was very appraising of that. it is basically the document blueprint that forms a foundation of what they're doing. so i don't think the efforts that it seems like they're engaged in to say, well, he wasn't actually endorsing the ryan budget makes any sense. it is his budget. if you look at what he said. >> i mean

rick santorum and ron paul have speaking. i would say rick santorum will be an interesting watch. all right guys. >> he has to tone it out. >> go out and have a nice dinner. plenty more on the factor. did the man who attacked the family research council do so because he was encouraged bypass a liberal and berny wright about a bias issue. we hope you s [♪...] >> announcer: with nothing but his computer, an identity thief is able to use your information to open a bank account in order to make your money his money. [whoosh, clang] you need lifelock, the only identity theft protection company that now monitors bank accounts for takeover fraud. lifelock: relentlessly protecting your identity. call 1-800-lifelock or go to lifelock.com today. >> 28 year old querkins was indicted boy the jury in washington dc. court shot and wounded one man before he was wrestled to the the president of the frc said he believed that he was spurred on by a liberal group. >> they disagree on marriage and religious issues and labeled us a hate group and that gives license to lunatics like this to come in a

rick santorum and ron paul have speaking. i would say rick santorum will be an interesting watch. all right guys. >> he has to tone it out. >> go out and have a nice dinner. plenty more on the factor. did the man who attacked the family research council do so because he was encouraged bypass a liberal and berny wright about a bias issue. we hope you stay tuned for those reports . >> 28 year old querkins was indicted boy the jury in washington dc. court shot and wounded one man before he was wrestled to the the president of the frc said he believed that he was spurred on by a liberal group. >> they disagree on marriage and religious issues and labeled us a hate group and that gives license to lunatics like this to come in and shoot innocent people. >> and joining us from montgomery. senior fellow of the law center and you say? >> well, first of all, bill, i appreciate you having me on and appreciate the fact that when you had tony perkins on your air last week. >> we challenge everyone. >> sure. i mean, the reality is, the way he described our criticism of his group is false. we do

what did you make of what senator santorum was tub thumping away with? >> i believe the firi agree wit first thing he said, hello, thank you for having me on the show. >> anything else ? >> no. >> i was trying to get to the anytimy gritty of the yy nitty- whole debate. you are making a signal to the world that basically you endorse his financial plan, his budget plan, even if it's not the exact one. you're going along with the idea behind it. less government. less tax action. many people interpret it as helping the rich. and taking some from those who need it more. that is the democrat view, isn't it? >> i think it is. i think it's more than just the democrat's view. if you look at romney's budget and what romney himself says about paul ryan's budget, he was very appraising of that. it is basically the document blueprint that forms a foundation of what they're doing. so i don't think the efforts that it seems like they're engaged in to say, well, he wasn't actually endorsing the ryan budget makes any sense. it is his budget. if you look at what he said.

and i would like to introduce rick santorum. >> senator rick santorum served as a voice for conservatives everywhere. he served two terms in the u.s. house of representatives where he took on washington's special interest groups. he was elected to the u.s. senate in 1995 where senator santorum was a member of a group that exposed banking scandals. senator santorum was also the author and floor manager of the landmark welfare reform act, which empowered millions of americans to get off the role of welfare and get into the workforce. he wrote and championed legislation that outlines the heinous procedure known as partial-birth abortions, as well as the unborn victims of violence act and combating autism act. he believes that each and every individual has value in the most vulnerable of our society need to be protected. [applause] senator santorum has fought to maintain fiscal sanity in washington. he has fought for balanced budget. he bravely proposed reforming entitlements, cutting spending and even developed a program that added up liberal amendments on spending bills. this record had mad

pledged to use the office of the presidency to crack down on birth control last fall, rick santorum was in exactly no danger of ever getting that opportunity, right? but, of course, in a year when republicans were excited about none of their choices, everybody did get a turn to be on top of the polls, even rick "birth control is not okay" santorum got his turn. rick santorum's political capital briefly rose among republicans this past year, and so did his early 20th century-era opposition to birth control. when health and human services secretary kathleen sebelius announced in january that insurance plans would be required to cover preventative services for women, including birth control, as of today, suddenly in the year 2012, virtually the whole republican party started fighting against access to birth control like they were defending hickem field in hindsight. the republicans spent about a month in february inveighing against access to birth control. which must have felt great to them, until they noticed stuff like the polling showing 40% of voters being less likely to vote for t

we've speeches from rick santorum, democrat turned republican and obama backer arthur davis and nikki haley. the culmination is the highly patted speech of ann romney and the keynote address delivered by new jersey governor chris christie. we'll bring you all of that and much more as it happens, and keeping a close eye on isaac. the storm is currently a category 1 hurricane and just made landfall in southeast louisiana. shepard smith is on the ground in new orleans, which looks to be directly in its path. we'll also check in with the governors of two huge battleground states, ohio governor john kasick and wisconsin governor scott walker. welcome, congressman. like a rock concert out there. >> it is electric in this hall. we're excited about the next couple of months so we can reclaim this country. >> obviously pretty enthusiastic. big night tonight. let's start with the negative that's been coming from the obama campaign. ann romney will get out there tonight. then we've got -- chris christie will get out there tonight. how big an impact will that have on changing the negative percept

here my reenactment of mike huckabee suggesting to to rick santorum. hey, rick, gets's go and buy as many chicken sandwiches. >> to support their stand on traician dal marriage. >> yeah. that's what i was talking about. for more on whether it's a good idea for municipalities to enforce political viewpoints on the restaurateurs we turn to wyatt sen ang and jessica williams. nice to see you guys. dhoers plaus-- (cheers and applause) >> jessica i'm sorry i see you are eating a chick-fil-a sandwich at this moment t is really weird. >> what, why? >> jon, being conservative or liberal doesn't stop at the polls. it also extends to the companies support. which is why as someone in favor of gay marriage coy never eat at a chick-fil-a. >> really, because traditional marriages pretty delicious. they put a-- in this. >> oh, stop. >> what, no, no, jon, control yourself, yes that sandwich is delicious but liberals buy liberal products. >> jon: what, like a vegan fair trade soy bath crystal. for god's sakes. >> joke all you want but everyone knows the soy bath crysta

after we get back, rick santorum gave a forceful, enthusiastic endorsement of hands last night. >> i held its hand. i shook the hands of farmers and ranchers. hands weathered and worn. the dirty hands. hands. i've gripped hands. hands that served. hands that sacrificed. hands that prayed. hands, hands, hands that struggled. hands that bring great joy. >> is it possible that somewhere in there was a nod to governor mitt romney? we will discuss the proceedings of last night, next. you do this every morning? it's the only way to get fresh coffee. not in my house! this new flavor lock pack from maxwell house helps seal in freshness. wow! that is fresh! am i still yelling? [ male announcer ] maxwell house flavor lock. always good to the last drop. to experience the ultimate expression of power... control. [ engine revs ] during the golden opportunity sales event, get great values on some of our newest models. this is the pursuit of perfection. arntlr gh rg [ nn ]errequ gh sf owgrl. rg >>> mitt romney made a surprise appearance at the rnc following his wife's speech last night but perhaps

why did rick santorum get so far in the race? paul ryan, same thing. paul ryan has street cried in that evangelical community. mohrmann, a catholic, the bottom line, they will vote their principles over their actual theology. i think that is going to be the majority opinion within not "teavangelicals" base. tavis: everybody, it seems like so many of the party elders, those persons who have been in positions of power for years are starting to say almost uniformly that this party does not find a way to broaden its base, it is dead. at some point, the party has to figure out a way to change the message, how they deliver it, and to broaden the base. i do not see how anybody in the gop thinks not doing that can help them win long term. >> i think you are onto something extremely important. there are so many challenges for the tea party. one of them is to make the message mainstream. you cannot have the reputation that you are the tea party, you are up on capitol hill and all you want to do is rail against increasing the debt ceiling. if that is going to be