and ed rollins the political campaign manager said john sununu is an argument against telling your child he has a high iq. [laughter] he had a beautiful name. sununu. i love that name particularly on the subway. sununu. sununu. and i wrote a poem if you wrote what sununu. [laughter] i sent the bomb to the editor of the nation where i had done a column and so i a set moved to syndication so widely and parsimonious and this what i would call the editor. when i would do the column we had lunch and i said what we use thinking of paying for each column? he said something in the high two figures. [laughter] we paid about $65. that sounds like the middle to figures. then i turned it over to my littery agent and said play hardball. he got them up at 100. how much were you thinking? he said a like to do one every week. if you're not familiar with the nation was on the book to work with the collection of nation columns and reporters said how would you describe the nation for our readers who were unfamiliar? [inaudible] [laughter] surely you have more to say? >> a magazine printed on cheap paper if

>> this is the first time we've heard from john sununu.e heard from ted nugent. these are two outliers within the beaten republican party. remember, the polls were barely closed before republicans were coming out of the woodwork, talking about how they needed to broaden the tent, be more open and welcoming and approachable to the very people who turned their backs on the republican party and helped re-elect president obama. john sununu is addition you know, he's not speaking for the republican party. ted nugent, he's very entertaining and downright racist in some of the things he says. >> if you like that kind of thing. >> i guarantee you, they're not going to be standing at the speaker's podium in 2016. the party moving beyond those characters. >> i hope you're right. mitt romney, whom you've just written about is seclusion in retail therapy. the man who told us i love cars, american automobiles who bought himself a foreign car audi, built in slovakia, owned byç a germany company. the capital of slovakia is quite aways away from detroit.

this time out of the mouth again of former new hampshire governor john sununu. said democrats, quote, aggressively got out the base of their base. the base of their base that's dependent, to a great extent, economically on got policy and government programs, seeming to echo governor romney's 47% remarks. that same evening paul ryan appeared to reject governor sununu's comments, though he didn't address them directly. >> these attempts to divide americans into our voters and their voters, let's be really clear, republicans must steer far clear of that trap. >> joining me now, cnbc contributor tony frat owe and former white house deputy press secretary under president george w. bush and managing partner at hamilton place strategies kiki mclean, senior adviser to the 2008 hillary clinton presidential campaign. good morning. >> good morning. >> tony, do republicans sit back and wish governor sununu would quit talking? >> not only is it offensive to a large part of the lack trat, it happens to be wrong. republicans did very well and in fact governor romney did very w

thousand and fourteen two thousand and sixteen and beyond for example former new hampshire governor john sununu want to romney's top political surrogates during the election earlier this week explained to forum goers in new hampshire why president obama was reelected he said aggressively got out the base of their base the base of their base that's dependent to a great extent economically i'm government policy and government programs so no was pushing the republican talking point that we'll be hearing a lot for the next two years or more we've heard similar explanations for romney's loss from a parade of conservative glee rush limbaugh who compared the president to santa claus bill o'reilly who said the democratic voters are voting to get stuff check it out conservatism in my humble opinion did not loose last night it's just very difficult to beat santa claus it is practically impossible to beat santa claus people are not going to vote against santa claus especially if there are fifty percent of the voting public who want stuff. they want things and who is going to give them things president oba

. >> well, i'm going to go with john sununu, he was the worst surrogate. >> it is so good to be rid ofwas everything that was wrong with the republican party's brand. surly, racially insensitive, ugly, just awful. and he just kept talking. >> the donald trump award goes to who this year? >> my trump award goes to karl rove, on election night, on politics, election night he had no idea what was going on. and on policy, this was the year when we really saw the public turn against his enduring legacy of trying to write state legislation into the constitution against people who happen to be gay. the public and the republican party is turning against that, and that will be his legacy sadly for him on this legislative issue. >> and for years, i've said the donald trump award has gone to donald trump. and once again i will give it to donald trump because i find it impossible to outdo donald trump on embarrassing yourself. there are a couple of people who tried, they tried really hard to outdo donald trump. let's take a look, for example, at todd aken. >> first of all, from what i understand f

. >> well, i'm going to go with john sununu, he was the worst surrogate.thing wrong with the republican's brand, surly, racially insensitive, ugly, just awful. and he kept talking. >> the donald trump award goes to? >> my trump award goes to karl rove, on election night, on politics, election night he had no idea what was going on. and on policy, this was the year when we really saw the public turn against his enduring legacy of trying to write state legislation into the constitution against people who happen to be gay. and the republican party is turning against that. and that will be his legacy for a long time, sadly in the legislative issue. >> and for years, i've said the donald trump award has gone to donald trump. and once again i will give it to donald trump because i find it impossible to outdo donald trump on embarrassing yourself. there are a couple of people who tried, they tried really hard to outdo donald trump. let's take a look, for example, at todd akin. >> first of all, from what i understand from doctors, that is really rare, if it is a l

do you remember john sununu who was throwing out all those racial comments and we wondered if he justbase or if he meant it? he meant it. they aggressively got out the base of their base. the base of their base that's dependent to a great extent economically on government policy and government programs. the eighth republican in a row to say oh, he lost, and he's giving stuff away, who is the base of their bases you know what i'm talking. man, when are you going to stop crying? you lost. get over it. do something else with your life. roger simon wrote a great article in making fun of them. the new republican ideas well, obviously he couldn't win. you can't beat a black guy. he said, quote their idea is it is not fair. romney was cursed with white skin, and rich and powerful father. the best education money could buy, and numerous cars, houses, boats, and offshore bank accounts. life can be so cruel. i loved the way that he mocked him. meanwhile what is john boehner up to? other than fighting the president on the grand bargain and the so-called fiscal cliff, he said if you do filibuster

any good staff member should be able to provide 10 reasons why john sununu's latest proposal is lacking in desirability. this process went on and on and did not progress at all. it was an education for people who were not steeped in the budget minutia the way senators were, but there was a real progress. we then went out to andrews and if anything the situation was worse. i have my access from the andrews summit, which i did not realize i had until they cleared out so they could put a new roof on because of sandy. they said, what are you saving the stuff for? i thought, this is what i am saving it for. my number is 108. i was not a lowest ranking person there. it was a room where food was consumed, but there was a whole lot of staffing and it went on and on until 2:00 at night sometimes. very little happened in the way of progress. until the much smaller group, the 8 people, largely without staff met in speaker foley's offices. there was an agreement reached which, as was pointed out, did not pass the hurdle but got halfway down the track and was a symbol of progress. that progress in p

. >> bill: evan, you've reported, now we know from john sununu echoing mitt romney that he's in la jolla barack obama is in the white house because obama depended on people who were dependent on government. it is just the handout, the takers are the ones who elected barack obama. >> right. the gifts argument. i think there has been a split on the language of this, whether or not the actual ideals of it. the language, split since romney lost and made his little gifts comment after the election. >> bill: that obama won by handing out gifts to the constituencies. >> minorities, women. just gave them -- best example is gave women contraception for their votes. that's potentially -- basically what they said. sununu yesterday or i guess it was tuesday night said that he said the same thing. he was like if you look at this, it wasn't about message. we didn't lose because of message. we lost because -- >> bill: didn't lose because they had a lousy candidate. >> we lost because of the hold-in to obama and what they can give him. >> bill: they're just in denial, right? >> what's interesting about

. >> i think it's unfair for john -- to paint with a broad brush and say that all republicans agree -- >> sununuas one of the number one surrogates they were putting out, and he was all over the place. >> but, chris, i was critical of the romney folks. they had no diversity in their campaign, and i was critical in 2008 because they had no diversity. >> that also plays -- >> we have to make some news. this is a news show. mr. watts, u.s. congressman watts, you have been elected to office before. will you seek the republican chairmanship against mr. reince priebus? >> chris, you know, i have kind of gotten caught up in this whirlwind and this thing has kind of taken a life of its own. everybody points fingers and whistles when -- >> how about pointing like this to yourself and saying i want to run? >> but the fact -- the fingers that i'm pointing, i have been pointing for 20 years. >> i know. >> you're like jack kemp. you're a good guy on this stuff. >> that they have done a poor job in establishing deeper relationships, and that's my point. >> agreed. >> i think it starts at the rnc and they keep

>> stephanie: bless your communist heart, and welcome, welcome. [ applause ] >> stephanie: john sununurnment-dependent base. [ bell chimes ] >> stephanie: didn't john sununu pretty move prove he was irrelevant. >> stephanie: yes. i am an ungrateful taker. if only i had the sense to avoid being drafted, i would have never been sent to vietnam and have my left leg blown off, now i'm taking money from the government. how ungrateful of me. >> how could he be so selfish. >> yeah. >> stephanie: what a taker. all right. let's go to karen in arkansas. hi karen, welcome. >> caller: hi guys how are you doing? >> stephanie: good go ahead. >> caller: i'm calling from the gold buckle of the bible belt. [♪ magic wand ♪] >> stephanie: nice and shiny. >> caller: i was calling about paul ryan wanting to help the pour now. >> stephanie: karen that is a long-held belief. it has been held since at least last thursday. [ laughter ] >> caller: and then ted nugent says people on welfare shouldn't be allowed to vote. >> stephanie: right. because he has rewritten the constitution. >> caller: but most of the pe