i asked ralph reid about what he felt about this. >> i think they're deluding themselves.tical damage, which has been incalculable, is irreparable. what it shows is what the white house would have liked to do, and pulled back the curtain of what obama care would have looked like in a second obama administration, and that is number one. number two, we need to wait for the actual language of the ruling, but it is getting a mixed reception at best, and this is why, because it is a government edict that is instead of telling the religious organization that they have the provide the funds unilaterally to fund something that is morally objectionable, they have shifted the mandate to the insurance company. how does the insurance company get the money to provide the mandate? they will get it from the religious employer and it is ooj objectable, but it is an improvement. >> and let me say two words, terri schiavo. this is an overreach, and first of all, they are against contraception as is most of the people. this is the kind of thing, and first of all birth control pills don't cos

a lot to talk with james carville and ralph reid founder of the christian coalition, and president of the century strategy. james, when you hear mitt romney describe himself as having been a severely conservative governor, what do you think? >> well, it is not up to me, but i know that before that audience, when you think of obama care or romney care, i don't think it went over very well, and if romney is trying to run as the genuine conservative candidate against rick santorum, that is not the winning message. i don't think that people are going to buy that. you know, he is a little bit of a tight spot here, so he has the try to make some room, but this is not a smart thing he did. it doesn't sound genuine at all. >> ralph, does it sound genuine to you? do you believe he was a sincerely conservative republican governor? >> well, i believe that his advisers feel strongly and he believes that the entire teen ur as governor in the course of the campaign haseen buffeted by the opponents and the mediacrit to the health care plan, and it is a good call that he cut taxes 19 times and cut sp

>> ralph reid is the chairman of the faith coalition. and the chairman of the tea party express.t for chrysler. did you see the double and triple meaning in that ad? >> chrysler got the bailout money and now doing this ad that we get back up. it was president obama with matt lauer saying he deserved a second term. i mean, a lot of people have a problem with it. >> it's a private company spending its money. it's paid back all or most of the taxpayer money. are we try too hard to connect politics to this. >> probably. they had what, eminem last year and decide clint eastwood this year? both ads are basically rorschach tests. people will look at the same ad and see different things. i saw the ad as a celebration of the american spirit. not a celebration of bailouts or subsidizing failure but the fact that companies not just like chrysler but also ford which didn't take a dime in federal money got off their knees and the economy turned around, not because of anything barack obama did. i'll say this about the hoke strag add. debbie stab knbe know has been the senate and the senate und

with us now from cpac, the founder and chairman of the faith and freedom coalition, ralph reid. t this hhs ruling because we know that you're really torn on it. but instead, we're going to go to the review and outlook of the "wall street journal" today. their main editorial on mitt romney. conservatives don't trust mr. romney in part because he gives them so little reason to do so. should conservatives trust mitt romney? >> well, i think joe as you well know this is a marathon, it's not a sprint. and it can be -- it can be a bloody marathon. i mean, this is a very tough business to win a major party nomination, and mitt romney given his more moderate pedigree, given the health care plan that he passed in massachusetts, given that in the past he has been pro-choice and pro-gay rights, i think i understate the case to say that he has some work to do. now, the good news for romney is that this is not his first time around the track. remember, joe, that when he came to the podium that is just behind me right now four years ago, he was welcomed as a conservative hero who had taken on

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