mitt romney with sarah palin run the next time. i like newt gingrich, but i do not think he is electable. i just think if we can get mitt romney and sarah palin in the re. a lot of the things they say about sarah palin -- she does have a lot of negatives. that is because george soros and his clan have spent so much money against her. host: we are going to hear from sarah palin. she was on the fox news channel last night. jordan is on the phone from phoenix. again, we're hearing from republicans only. who speaks for the gop? guest: mitt romney is a strong upcoming moderate voice for republicans. another person i am impressed with is jon kyl. unfortunately, i think jon kyl is not ambitious enough. he has been hesitant politician. i do not think he would personally run for office. adding that is a shame. i think he would do a great job. host: tom from michigan, good morning. caller: rush limbaugh the stakes for the conservative party. mitt romney is level by to see ron. host: david in denver, what do you think? caller: i have a few co

caller: i would like to say what mitt romney said being the wrong way to go. congress enjoys full health coverage at taxpayer expense. and yet, congress, especially the republicans, will say that health insurance -- health care is not a right for americans. on the other hand, i you allegra to control allergies. $500 for a four-month spread supply in the u.s.. it is under $200 for a four month supply in canada. host: do you go to canada to get your supplies? caller: i do. i cannot afford to pay $500 every four months for allergy medicine. host: another view from michigan. good morning. caller: thank you for this opportunity. the main points i would like to make is that in america, we spend one-third more per capita for health insurance. one-third more for prescription costs. in spite of that, we, at one time in the '60s, we were equal to or above other countries. since we have got this extreme for-profit system with insurance companies and pharmaceutical companies. everything is maximize profits, we have fallen behind. our life expectancies are lower than other

i think this pushes mitt romney to the forefront. >> he is waiting in the wings. host: illinois on the independent line. caller: i am all for personal responsibility, but more people in this country should embrace that. i find it amazing that the congress and reporters think that people who didn't need to take any personal response well -- responsibility are now going to take responsibility for their health. host: special interest lobbies a fourth brain -- branch of government, big oil, cap and trade and health care. next on our republican line. caller: i wanted to call uncap and trade. this is a fraud. see 02 has nothing to do with the temperature of the earth and the people that are proposing it know it. i have five books as it is of fraud. look at american center. half of the co2 that is produced goes into the ocean. still to is one and a half times heavier than air, it sinks down to the ground. that bill is a one-party rule bill. they will charge the republican states, all the democratic states probably don't have any co2 code at all. it is corrupt and crooked

guest: the one person who helps the most is britain -- is mitt romney. he is in the 2012 presidential hopeful who pulls off the map. john ensign is another one who happened -- whose scandal happened a week earlier. there's an argument as to how successful he would have been. there have been some other governors who have not had a great year. this pushes and mitt romney to the forefront guest: guest: jeb bush is another one. he is waiting in the wings. host: peoria, ill., independent line. caller: it took me a long time to get through. i wanted to comment that i am for personal responsibility and more people should embrace that. i find it amazing that congress and reporters think that people who did not need to take responsibility for their mortgage will now take responsibility for their health. i don't know how you can possibly think they can do that. host: special interest lobbyists are the fourth branch of government. big bang score of stimulus, big oil cap and trade, the drugs- health care. calnext caller, jim? let's try that again. are you there? cal

finally, politico says that mitt romney's campaign team express another run for the presidency -- that is falling in event where former aides and advisers met for fund-raiser to help raise money for the statehouse races of barbara, stuck. but a former campaign workers as it was also a romney political family reunion and added that there is a nucleus of people who should he decide to run will drop everything and go help him again. those are some of the latest headlines on c-span media. "washington journal" continues. host: peter brookes is the project manager for re- districting reform. this comes up every 10 years with the senses, but this is an issue broader than just the census. what is your organization concerned about? guest: it is concerned about extreme jerrymanders that have been taking place with more frequency and extremism. politicians choosing voters in their districts rather than voters choosing their elected officials. americans for redistricting reform was greeted as a couple of years ago with a grant from the rockefellers to focus to the extent that we can on the fact th

i think this pushes mitt romney to the forefront. guest: more is jeb bush. he is long under the radar. i think you'd be a particularly strong can it, but he is waiting in the wings, i think. host: this is beth our independent line. caller: it took me quite a long time to get through. i am all for personal responsibility and do more people should embrace that. i find it amazing but the congress and the reporters and anyone else thinks that people to do not need to take personal responsibility when it came to getting mortgages better to lurch are now looking to be personally responsible for themselves. i do not know how you possibly think they could do that. host: a quick, debt twitter.com -- host: good morning, republican line. hello. good morning. are you there? ok, we will go next -- let's try that again. are you there? host: caller: yes. capt. trip is a fraud, and they know it is a fraud. -- cab and trade is a fraud. i have five books this is a fraud. and if you do not have the time to read, going over the speeches from american progress. look at american

. >> if the republican primaries were held 6 months from now, my guess is mitt romney would win. >> then you have the genius of barack obama in appointing the governor of utah to be ambassador to china and thus removing one of his, perhaps, main rivals. >> someone from the west who was calling for a different kind of republican party. john mccue, secretary of the army, jim leach, republican congressman from iowa, national endowment for the -- congressman from illinois, secretary of transportation, this is from the same thing i am thinking of. our friend rahm emanuel -- >> mid ronny running the campaign around the country, the same candidates to learn, this was his pride and joy, finding the right person to unseat the wrong person. [talking over each other] >> exactly. sacrificing pieces left and right. let's say you were in a ballroom with out any windows talking to a group of people of particular interest in one part of health care reform. what is the best way to communicate with washington these days? how would you advise getting through to people, there's so much information, so many

look how he responded to that and how mitt romney responded to the questions about his mormon faith. this was a really head on attempt to address a loot of those issues and explain it in a pretty nuanced way. there wasn't a whole lot of sound bites on that speech. and it was tough to pull out something. so the unconventional piece of it was important. that doesn't explain everything about him because there was something deeply disciplined and conventional about him. when he wants to win. because he is so competitive. but if he needs the rules, he will play by them. there is a contradiction here. doing this kind of speech, remember, the big controversy was why didn't he get rid of him? why didn't he act out of a desire to say, that's it, i'm going to cut him loose? of course that moment came later. but i think the combination of these two things, this rule breaking aspect with this cautious, deliberative process is really what helped him to be successful and what shapes his presidency today. host: our guest is richard woof. caller: my question this morning would be, barack, he is doin

but look how he responded to that and mitt romney responded to questions about his mormon faith. this was a really head-on attempt to address a lot of those issues and explain it in a pretty nuanced way. there were not a lot of sound bites at that speech and i wrote them at that time and was tough to pull out something. so the on conventional piece of it was important. that doesn't explain everything about him because there was something deeply disappointed and conventional about him when he wants to win, because he is so competitive if he needs the rules he will play by them. it is a contradiction, the sort of disciplined renegade, doing this kind of speech -- remember that time the controversy is why don't we get rid of him? why didn't he act out of a sort of impetuous desire to say well, that's it, i'm going to cut him loose. of course that moment came later, but i think the combination of these two things, this rule breaking aspect with this cautious, deliberate process is really what helped him to be successful in what shapes his presidency today. >> host: our guest is richa

mitt romney has been here. you can pretty much expect to see every republican presidential candidate make their way through virginia. the democratic nominee, you can expect to see him get a pretty good boost from president obama as well. host: so a little bit about the republican candidate. what can you tell us about him? guest: bob mcdonald. he was the attorney general. one of the great things that's going to be happening in the fall, it's going to be a rematch. he got his job by beating the democratic nominee in one of the closest elections in state history. he's a guy who's been running in the middle already, talking about issues like jobs, higher he had education and the -- higher education, the roads and rails of the state. he has lengthy ties to pat robertson. he attended regiant law school, the law school founded by pat robertson. host: tell us a little bit about the financial standings of both of these candidates and how it will play out this fall. >> crede will have to sell his campaign quite quickly.

most recently she served as chairman in the senior adviser to mitt romney. other notable career accolade's include ms. buchanan's role as regular political analyst for cnn's inside politics and good morning america. he was the co-anchor of the political talks of equal times and host of radio talk-show program in 2007. she was named one of the year by the policy institute. her book the extreme makeover of hillary rodham clinton was published in 2007 and is an extraordinarily perspective -- perceptive analysis of clinton. she is president of the american cause and chairman of team america. she is a mother and grandmother to his 3 sons and her granddaughter. arousing speeches on life and immigration can be heard at colleges and universities nationwide and they never cease to motivate and inspired. it is my pleasure to introduce to the conservative movement, a woman i greatly admire, ms. buchanan. [applause] >> thank you very much. i enjoy speaking to young people. you give me great hope and inspire me. there is great reason in this part of the world to be disco