the republican party built itself and bills itself as the white man's party. here we have abraham lincoln debating stephen douglas in that famous 1858 senatorial campaign. the republican party slogan that here was, a bank which that twin despotisms, catholicism and slavery. again, going hand in hand. i should tell you in full disclosure that abraham lincoln was not a religious bigot. he hated religious bigotry. he's all of the republican party line because it was very effective among the republican party base. you have heard in politics, again at the base. republican party base working in cities, the small towns and farms across the northeast. and this resonated to this constituency, this anti catholicism. and so clinton campaigned under the slogan in 1858. in 1860, of course, abraham lincoln was the republican nominee for president. by this time american politics was becoming polarized. it was becoming polarized because evangelical religion was being injected into the political process. now all slavery and immigration and the catholic church for no longer pol

bush republican party that is the standard republican party as representative of we've got a great that for them our duty just think the second. that we've gotten back is the same old thought it government and the party that got up with this situation and the folks i'm sorry but that's just so what's next for the southern avenger jack. well i would think. a lot of that if they called it off until i get. the american. public if your doctor are outstanding that was southern avenger jack hunter of southern avenger got calm now i just love the way he talks i might even retire to south carolina just to be surrounded by people that talk like him all the time and now the end of the world yes once again the end of the world is here ok so it's tomorrow but that doesn't mean you shouldn't get ready by repenting or holding a rapture party which many christians are doing openly mocking pastor harold camping who for the second time is predicting the end of the world so don't worry this probably doesn't mean that i'm a source and yours illegitimate locks are going to be bringing down sign it in twent

is moving to the left you know look the republican party is not entering your camp of anarchism anyways no really what i think i happen to move from moving to from an authoritarian type of dialogue into a more libertarian mindset already change of freeing the people from the chains of government well let's talk about that because i brought my wife who are in here just to get into this a little more and take a look at the political spectrum and how this left right model that we usually use to talk about politics in this country totally failed as you guys are on talking about and you've got typical left and right and a line and people are placed at various points on the line the left right spectrum are you a lefty or a righty but you know what that really doesn't capture much of what americans really believe in and it doesn't really have either of these has a really coherent political philosophy behind and the best explanation of how we got to this point where we have the sort of small liberal body of thought in the small c conservative body of thought comes from berkeley hyper li

the republican party base. you know, you've heard in politics, get out the base. get out the base. it was the republican party base. the republican party base were protestant working men in cities and there were protestants

republican party all the way that the republicans major republicans pay pilgrimage to fox and you think that they were the head of the party i mean you had sarah palin be a picture of you're going to be a contributor my how could he have his own t.v. show on fox don't trump when he was you know doing his sort of joke over right i was on fox every monday morning they had exclusive video and i think republicans actually turned to the channel not just to sort of put out their views but to actually build their movement i mean you have every single host on fox right now almost all of them are republicans also the right wing views and they organize they spread their message uncritically and their knowledge you know that you turn for for sort of the visit of you in the party yeah but who is organizing who i mean james i want to go to you on this one isn't roger ailes the one that's hiring all of these contributors that then become potential g.o.p. twenty top candidates it really does seem like he has agenda an. behind the scene to try to get these people into the political race. no seriously a

see the time of day and republican party staffers.s it going to be the press, you need the press to assi you in what we call prop gantt gandia, because it is a done deal that -- sol done deal that obama is going to win. quite naturally you have the support. you have to go to your republican party and present games to the public. host: carl, we will leave it there. matt? guest: what can you say to that? i don't know where to begin. he did say president obama would win re-election. i don't know anyone believes it is a certainty that he will win re-election. as i said, i believe there are four numbers that will be absolutely indicative of what his potential successors would be. and you would agree with me on these. right track, wrong track, approval number, the average price of a gallon of gas. these numbers -- and the national employment rate. so those numbers will tell us a lot. you will have a vibrant republican primary that will last quite a while, i think, that will go well beyond the early states. while it will start in the summer,

that you just showed and frankly i'm not sure this is an indicator of anything except that the republican party of new york has the bad job choosing candidates and does a bad job dispelling fake tea party that's a very interesting take on it president dwight eisenhower in one hundred forty six or nine hundred fifty six read the republican platform explicitly said you know we want we endorse social security medicare didn't come along so well b.j. but you know social programs we endorse labor they bragged in the platform in one hundred fifty six about how two and a half million people were unionized and they wanted to see that grow in our wrote a letter to his brother and her in the one nine hundred fifty four october eighth in which she said should any political party attempt to abolish social security unemployment insurance and eliminate labor laws and farm programs you would not hear their party again in our political history there's a tiny splinter group of course that believes you can do these things among them or a few texas oil millionaires and an occasional politician or business a number

hochul still prevails taking forty eight percent of the vote republican jane corwin is forty two percent of the vote there was a third party candidate jack davis but he only took nine percent of the vote the democrats won because they successfully turned this election into a referendum on the republicans plan to end medicare take a look at this ad that's been running around the nation. as we saw yesterday's election the american people are putting up with the right wing radical agenda to kill medicare so it's paul ryan with the help of the tea partiers and it's millionaire and billionaire financier is like the koch brothers killing off the republican party as we know as we know it and it's talk about this issue is phil kerpen vice president for policy of americans for prosperity phil welcome back my pleasure thomas nice to see a hopeful soul of the fourth democrat to ever hold the city as i mentioned since eighteen. seats hundreds isn't it time for the republican party is for backing away from from paul ryan the way the new congress tried to do sunday in africa and i think that would be a big mistake to read this race that

cancer too has been blacklisted from american politics newt gingrich is embraced within the republican party to say about republicans supposed family party and family values why the double standard before i respond let me just say i want to dedicate my performance was to the late great rock macho man randy savage who passed away today since we are on the road will a. good. that's going to was going to affect the well we'll talk about that later we're going to break here but the answer to question is one i think the better examples arnold schwarzenegger because he ran for office while having this great probably already background and that's the problem with that what we did i read he had one of the fifteen women but there is no double standard if it's there's evidence the other way gary studds who slept with they in turn i didn't give it a router gets gas didn't get forced out mark foley did so so if there's a double standard i think it might be the other way but in all honesty and all honesty some people get through some people though it's hard to i don't i don't know if there's a double sta

cost them some votes, but i think a strong candidate of the republican party can win without signing that pledge. host: i have this tweet. from ohio, republican line. caller: good morning. i have a statement more than a question. first of all, i was waiting as a republican american voter and i said let's see if we can stand president i la like obama because i won't vote for him because when i call the white house comment line and his secretary laughs, i call and compliment him like hit and strike and 21st century warfare in libya and what he did with osama but he is still a democrat and i believe sarah palin can beat him. we did great last night. like i told president obama on the comment line if i had my way, it would be sarah palin and mitch daniels and that is who he would face in 2012. look like sarah palin is going to run though. host: you don't see it at all? guest: the best sign to me was i don't think she went to new hampshire on the become tour that. would have been a no-brainer when she was touring for her new book. she didn't schedule a stop in new hampshire. that suggests

donald" trying to play the race card, and is the president trying to make trump the face of the republican party? >> no one is happier, no one is prouder to put this birth certificate matter to rest than the donald. ( laughter ) and that's because he can finally get back to focusing on the issues that matter like, did we fake the moon landing? ( laughter ) >> schieffer: it's all ahead on "face the nation." captioning sponsored by cbs "face the nation" with cbs news chief washington correspondent bob schieffer. and now from washington, bob schieffer. >> schieffer: good morning again. the more we know about these tornadoes that roared across the south, the worse the story becomes. as more bodies were found overnight, the death toll rose to 342-- 250 of them in alabama alone. that makes this tragedy the worst natural disaster since katrina, one of the worst weather disasters of all time. this morning, the people of the south will be going to church to mourn their dead, but in too many communities, there are no places to hold services. the governor of alabama, robert bentley, is with us. he's in rai

, the establishment republican party that to hold hold office, and the tea party.us group. he's the pick of the group watching. it's an amazing result. here is his favorite line from last night. let's listen. >> one of the biggest problems we have with this country right now is too much government intervention in trying to tell businesses what they do best, which is create jobs. government doesn't create jobs, businesses create jobs. >> this is ronald reagan stuff. this is motivational speaking. >> a republican talking point. >> what does he mean, government's have been telling businesses where to put their businesses. what's new. you want to put a factory in a nice neighborhood? >> as smart as he is, i would listen to him about whether to get deep dish or regular pizza, but not how to get people back to work. >> that clip and there was one other somebody asked, you have only been a businessman. he said we have elected a lot of politicians, how is that working for you? >> what does that mean? >> the republican party, we learned in the 2010 party, the republican par

we don't have to fear that donald trump is the face of the republican party. maybe another part of the anatomy might be more correct. >> schieffer: (laughing) >> this bigotry, he's part of a bigot october arrest. this bigot-karat out there promoting conspiracy theories, half-hearted truths, factual errors, barack obama is a magna cum laude graduate of the harvard law school. here he is the editor of the law review. unimpeachable intellect kbral credentials and now we have a retroactive bigotry that tries to question his very bona fide status. i think this is shameful and it's sad. unfortunately donald trump has commandeered the bully pulpit if he is indeed the voice of republicans they ought to say so. if not they ought to distance themselves from him and suggest that this obsession with the birth of barack obama has to be put aside to deal with more serious and sustained issues. make no mistake this is part of a racist trajectory. >> schieffer: you know, you say others ought to distance themselves. i think everybody from mitt romney to michelle bachman has no

>> well, first of all, first of all the republican party is more afraid of us than the democrat ing partythis movement is a direct result of people being fed up and angry with both political parties. >> stephen: but there weren't a lot of signs showing john boehner with a bone through his nose. >> this movement, people got fed up when bush was in office with the spending, and it's escalated, so people are coming, you know, to the movement and joining the movement because they want responsibility. >> stephen: i want to motivate people. >> people are motivatessed. >> stephen: i need to know how to motivate people the way you did. while people were frustrated with president bush, they weren't marching in the streets until obama was in. what could i tell my people that you told your people that changed everything? >> this has nothing to do with president bush or president obama. >> stephen: it doesn't matter who is in the white house. >> that's right. >> stephen: so why even have a president? why can't we just rule by mob? why can't we just chant in the street? >> it's the balance of power. i

both parties say they're the ones to call with debts and deficits. but if republicans rejeck taxes, where's the deal? and what's the deal with newt? bad marriage. how does a republican run for president and still back what the party's doing in washington? is it simply impossible to be the candidate of the tea party protesters and the republicans who control the house? and finally, misery loves company. first there was sarah, then trump. now there's newt. with trump and huckabee gone and gingrich flailing, who's going to yell out loud for the mad as hell crowd? can bachmann resist the call of the wild? with us today, hdnet's dan rather, rachel madoow, kelly o'donnell and michael gers inn. president obama has put out a new plan for the middle east and now he's headed to europe. what's at the center here is the push to put the economy back on track. that's why there's a focus on the debt compromise and that's what the election will hang on. i want to do something different this week. usually we bottom-line things with our regulars, but let's start there this week. we aske

the democratic party in the republican party doesn't for example represent voters who want peace voters who want justice voters who want change those parties are status quo special interest parties but don't reflect the interest for the will of the voters and unfortunately as long as we have a system that is able to be purchased by those who can amass. mobilize it quickly we will not have a democratic system we do not have it can create a system in this country today and well let me ask you this what do you think would be the benefit to the rise of third parties with getting rid of the electoral college how are you so sure there would be one because there are still a number of legal and social issues that limit the rise of a third party candidate in some cases there are laws that limit them from even being on the ballot you yourself were a third party candidate for the green party i want to know what makes you confident that getting rid of the electoral college would simply solve the problem. well we we need to get rid of the electoral college but i didn't say that was the only m

some of it is the republican party is not the republican party of george w. bush. it doesn't have a leader that makes this case. it also, you know, bush failed within his own party. there was a revolt against it. >> lehrer: he couldn't get it done. >> he couldn't get it done and it was a talk radio issue all across the country within the conservative community and they turned against the legislation strongly. so i think that burned a lot of republicans. they know it is a tough thing among their own constituents. >> practically speaking, jim, in an increasingly less white country which the united states is, the republican party has become an increasingly more white party. and that's a real political problem, just the arithmetic t works against them. >> lehrer: yeah. well, michael, staying on the republicans for a moment. the republican presidential nomination race, what is your overview of it right now as we speak? >> well, i spent a little time recently in iowa and new hampshire. >> lehrer: uh-huh. >> there's a lot of people expressing marginal support for this cand

. >> joining us on "newsmakers" is jack kimball, the chair of the new hampshire republican party and matt strawn of the chair of the iowa republican party joining us from manchester and des moines, respectively. here at the table is jonathan karl of abc news, senior political correspondent, and david catanese, the national political correspondent for politico. thank you for joining us. jack kimball, let me begin with you with donald trump's visit to new hampshire this past week. what impact will his potential candidacy have or has it had on the other republicans in this field? >> hard to tell right now. it was an interesting visit. he certainly draws a crowd. but i think that what we're going to see here in new hampshire is -- and we do a pretty good job of it, we tend to do a good job of adding the candidates. he has to get in front of the people like the rest of the candidates. we have a broad field, a very good field and donald trump is going to find if he's going to be successful in new hampshire he'll have to return many times and he'll have to do the retail politicking that is

host: to the front runners in the republican party and is there one person you think is going to burst of the scene in very short order? >> very hard to say. it's the most wide open. and wide open republican primary in a generation. i would say there's probably a pack of three setting them self as part and i'll leave a fourth for a wild card. the three are mitt romney who is in some ways the front runner from having run last time. the former governor. tim from minnesota and i think governor mitch dams no, maniels indiana. it could be mike heck abbey. heck abbey. we're also excited about the opportunity to beat president obama. host: mike, does the white house favor running against any particular republican or is the strategy or are they going with a general strategy as apposed to something specific targeted towards what they think is the front runer? >> i think right now they worry about their own message. look at the field and see folks they would be more than happy to run against. michelle and a sarah palin and donald trump as all people they likely would be easily defeatable. with t

my predecessor republican changed parties while he was mayor, and my successor republican changed parties about two years ago, so i don't know who i go back to. [laughter] for example, this is a city that didn't vote for abraham lincoln. [laughter] you get an idea of how democratic it is. [laughter] i love being a republican mayor of new york city because i got accused once of appointing too many republicans. well, i appointed all six republicans in new york city. [laughter] i couldn't possibly have appointed too many republicans. i couldn't find any. i used a republican approach to governing. i borrowed a great deal of it from ronald reagan who i know you're especially come men rating at -- honoring at this meeting. the idea we should get government spending under control, and i learned that from having having the honor of working with ronald reagan, and the president appointed me as associate attorney general. after i was appointed but before the con fir ration hearings were completed, i had a breakfast with 19 other people with president reagan and got to know him, and the day that i h

there are parties of the right -- republicans are the party of the fight, democrats of the left. romney has a bigger issue, romney care. his front runner-ship will hinge on how he handles those attacks and a debate. if he shows he can answer it, he will win the nomination but if he cannot, it will be extremely difficult. >> mthe former speaker of the house, no one is talking about him. >> his campaign is over. he had the worst launch since the hindenburg. >> but he is still flying br. >> what about the tiffany's thing? >> it is like the john edwards hair cut. it says something about what people think, people's taste, character. this guy is supposed to be so for go and yet he is spending this money -- >> you mean to john edwards was about to be indicted, that one? >> yes. >> it is not about tiffany's. had he said that the plan was flat and he at an alternative, that would have been one thing. he said it is right wing social engineering pro. >> spoke truth to power. >> exactly, and that is why he will not win the nomination. the plan was, incidentally, proposed by the clinton commi

folks, this republican party is not even your father's republican party. this is a different breed of cat. and, again, a lot of you people know me very, very well. john broddick, you were my friend for 30 years. i say what i believe. unfortunately, i always say it. but my honest to god belief is these are good guys, they are decent people, they really think this is the prescription for america's future. i don't doubt for a minute that they think what they are doing is good for the country. but lord, lord almighty, i doubt their judgment and value system and priorities. we're so, so far apart. and, folks, there is a third region besides them hiding the ball and everybody realizing how strong barack obama is, there's a third reason i feel optimistic about our chances in 2012 as i do about america. you, the people in this room. and that's not hyperbole. you are representative of the millions of people, tens of thousands of people like you, the core of our party, the backbone, the sinew and muscle of this party, who in 2008 helped us put together and actually,

and how will they work together to craft a message for the republican party over the next year or so re there's a clear candidate for the republicans? >> that's a very good question, eliot. i think it's going to require some greater discipline than the republicans have shown so far. especially as we work our way through it the next few weeks on the debt limit. you know, we hit the national debt limit today, and we've got 11 weeks essentially to get a resolution as speaker boehner is essential to that. i think would think that speaker boehner will get support from the republicans and how they crafts this. it's really going to hurt the petition if there are divisions officer that. let me just add, eliot, you know, it's very early on the national health care debate. a lot of nprs haven't formed on some of these issues yet. issues come and go. already, one feels that pretty kay as important as the seizing and killing of bin laden was, it's not driving the race the way we thought it might two weeks ago. i think we have two more candidates before the race is over. if mitch daniels gets in f

>> she has a core of supporters in the republican party but outside of that devoted core she has someficulty. one she is very unpopular among independent voters. and so in a general election, she would have a very tough hill to climb. that worries some republicans. but also her favorable numbers, the number of people who think of her favorably in the republican party has been going down. one thing to test from this bus tour is if she's able to improve her image just within her own party that will give us some indication. if she can't do that, she's not going to be able to do it in the cut and thrust of an actual campaign. >> mitchell: let's talk about wild cards, texas governor rick perry says will think about running, rudy giuliani not in the race either yet he is ahead in at least one poll. what does that say to you? >> it is just another sign that republicans are unhappy with the field as it is set right now. what some strategists worry, though, is when people like governor perry say they'll think about it, it forces republicans to wait again a little bit more and not focus on the

republican party under george w. bush was fabulously competitive with those ethnic and immigrant communities and now it is not. now it is not. not the democrats' current the vote by any stretch. don't get me started on that. but republicans keep pushing them away. the democrats job is very easy. i think the republican party will come back to the free market principles, will realize immigration properly regulated serves our interests economically and politically it is smarter to reach out and compete for both rather than make those people know you'd want to send their love one's home. that is my hope. if you are with me on this let's try to make it happen in a matter of years, not decades. [applause] >> thank you so much. we have time for questions from the audience if you have questions. ahead. >> mr. sharry vigorously mentioned high tech workers. any foreign actor and assets in the united states that never done anything illegally? >> yes. >> you worked in the field and on the streets with many illegal immigrants, so

andrea mitchell, is that going to fly in this republican party? question, open question, as to whether jon huntsman can be viable in this party. it's a place where the bush family now goes, having lost mitch daniels as a running horse. he's opened a campaign headquarte headquarters, or he will open a campaign headquarters in orlando. does that raise questions about his authenticity? is he running away from his mormon faith as governor of utah? it seems almost too cute, too obvious to open in florida your campaign headquarters when you can choose any place in the country. >> do democrats think he's formidable? do you worry about him? >> i don't worry a lot about huntsman. we're obviously just watching the republican field play out, the thinning of the field. it'd be great to have don trump back, but -- >> yeah, but -- >> who do you worry about? >> obama! >> right now, the president -- no, we don't, because as we're saying, at least the president has been focused on jobs, and as part of his deficit, he has said his number one priority is to make sur

i'm not, you know, an official in the republican party. so it's hard for me to tell you., they're the king makers in the republican party. i don't know, you know. i think newt gingrich is going to have a very tough time now because we live in a 24/7 cycle, and these things tend to build on themselves. look, joe biden had a tough start the last time around. he called barack obama plain and articulate on day one of his campaign. newt gingrich has a problem because he has an inflammatory language. it's not a friendly language. he usually uses it against the democrats. this time he used it against his own party and that's a problem. i can't say. you know, i can't say what's going to happen to him, but i do think he's going to have to re-evaluate how he behaves and how he runs his campaign. >> gloria borger, as always, i like to tell everyone. you can read her opinion. ms. borger, thank you very much. >>> another republican thinking of throwing his hat in the ring. >>> before we get you to wolf blitzer in washington, you're look at live pictures of the president of the united

who is that in the republican party?uld be a newt gingrich, a sarah palin, i think that could be a michele bachmann. but if he's running against a pawlenty, a huntsman, even a mitt romney, it's going to be much harder to demonize a republican. if he goes out and says, you know, the republicans wants to throw grandma out in the snow on medicare, a republican who's unobjectionable, who can say, gee, i guess i'm going to have to break the bad news to mom soon and kind of laughs it off, could beat barack obama. >> let me be clear about what i mean about the republican might not be in this race. it's obvious and by what alex and others have written and said, republicans believe they'll run a competitive race in 2012. all the factors you mentioned, unemployment, the fact that george bush is not on the ticket, and it's probably unlikely sarah palin will be on the ticket at any level, those factors, bush and palin played a big role in obama surging to the lead and winning the presidency a few years ago. having said all that, i t

of this tea party excitement but they are regular republicans. >> i wonder if they were not wondering for the nomination of a party that no longer exists. i think that there is going to be a candidate on the other side on the tea party side of the ledger and who is going to be more comfortable in his or her, especially her, skin than these guys because each of them has to take a position, to reverse a position that they took before. mitt romney created universal healthcare in males. pawlenty was for cap and trade. hun huntsman still may be for cap and trade. there will be somebody who says look at these guys flipping and flopping and how awkward they are. you put all three requirements, they have to be unning, have to win the nomination and can they win the general? is there anybody else besides these three you can see doing all three, going all the way? >> i think that it is hard. the person in the news is sarah palin. chris: could she be the president of the united states? >> i would like to see that. chris: does anybody imagine sarah palin being elected united states?e >> yes. chri

all the republican party branding is very ron paul, even if the republican establishment doesn't like ron paul himself, they like the sound of his principles. get government off your back, right? it's how the party is trying to market themselves right now. look at what they are doing in office. take the state of florida, today. the new republican governor is expected to sign into law a handful of bills that are sitting on his desk. is this small government stuff? or is this big government stuff? you tell me. the first one is a -- forced by the state of florida to have a medically unnecessary ultrasound, first. it forces the doctors to read to her the procedure, a script about the procedure written by the state of florida no matter what the doctor believes. mandatory drug tests for a class of florida residents whether or not they are suspected of using drugs. anyone receiving temporary state aid. they will be forcibly drug tested by the state and forced to pay for it. third bill, a bill that punishes school children for wearing their pants lower than the government wants them to. it re