movement in georgia is primarying representative ron stephens for his insufficient ideal logical impurity on how thoroughly he would push to ban abortion. jay, thanks very much for being here. nice to see you. >> thank you for the invitation. >> this particular tea party group, this peach tea party group, is a coalition of a bunch of different conservative groups including georgia right to life. the phrase tea party become the name you can attach to any conservative organization these days? >> yes. i think that's exactly what happened ithis case. georgia right to life basic created the peach tea party and just took the tea party name and attached it to social causes. >> it's being really aggressive specifically on the issue of abortion. i highlighted the case of that

support of that pro-life republican representative ron stephens the 20-week abortion ban did pass the georgia house and went to the senate in georgia where it got an amendment. it was amended to add an exemption and the exemption would allow abortions past the 20 week cutoff in the case of a medically futile pregnancy. like his daughter's case with a fatal defect was discovered. once that was added to the law in the senate, stephens decide he could vote for it. he is a pro-life republican and he voted for the final bill once it got that exemption added it to. because of his initial reservations, based on what happened to his daughter, representative stephens is now denounced as a republican in name only as a rhino. he's been promised he's goi to get a republican primary challenger from a group calling itself peach tea party. mr. stephens is one of 17 lawmakers targeted by the tea

. >>> this is representative ron stephens.hen representative stevesen daughter was five months pregnant doctors informed the family of horrible news. part of the baby's brain was developing outside the skull. the heart was inverted. if the pregnancy was carried to term the baby could take only one or two breaths. he said she would have watched it die. because that fatal defect was detected by her drawer, his daughter was given the option of having an abortion. the bill was introduced in the georgia house that would ban abortion at 20 weeks at the time just before his daughter was given her diagnosis. under the bill a doctor performing an abortion after the new 20-week cut off could face ten years in prison. that bill passed the georgia house largely along party lines. representative stephens although he's a pro-life republican did not vote for it. he did not vote for the 20-week abortion ban. he walked out during a roll call that would have taken away his own daughter's ability p and have the state government to force his daug

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stephen: you say pote pote i say burrito. >> why couldn't you gain traction with the republicans? i mean ron paul got traction. mean a pizza magazinenat got traction. a fat man with orange skin got traction. why didn't you get traction? >> you know, i hate to go down a cubbee hole here but i was excluded from the debates because i didn't have a certain showing in polls where my name didn't appear in the poll. >> stephen: so you didn't register 2% in stand in polls but your name was also not included. >> not included. that's a tough audience. >> that si a tough one to crack. i think my message is the same as ron paul. i don't think ron paul is going to get the republican nomination. so what happens to this message when he ends up getting out of the race? i think this is important for america. i think really addressing the issues that this country is facing, fiscal issues, balancing the federal budget and then on the social side, the notion that we should and are socially tolerant. >> stephen: . >> keep government out of the bedroom. >> stephen: okay. now are you presently, are you presently in straw bolls leadi

ron is a lower rate on taxes because most of its income comes from interest investment is stating is as opposed to earn income from a paycheck conservative writer stephen morris says romney has to do a better job explaining my personal success shouldn't be penalized. at in the rodney has to make the point that my money was investment encompasses from saving investment we need more of that for quite have a growing economy and to raise taxes on the investment that people put into businesses is not a way to create jobs. to equate rummies under pressure to release his returns which the campaign says he will still democrats want more though they want him to release tax returns going back into the last decade. governor brown has a tough message for the state legislature man that. that is that we told the radio station the legislature should deal with the state deficit and make spending cuts. he says the deficit is like like large and on the previously thought to democrats have fought many of brown's proposals to slash spending. it's been a neighbor had favored in the east bay from us 50 years. and now the community is diving in to save their neighborhood poo

stephen colbert had it exactly right. the picture that was shown first right there next to romney was ron portman from ohio.ted despite our experience four years ago. you pick a vice president for strategic purposes, mitt romney or barack obama, for that matter, need to win ohio and it's okay that he's boring. >> holly? >> i think mitt romney has talked about how he would like to have a woman on the ticket and one way that would help his ticket, but at the same time there would be the threat of bringing in all of the drama from the bush administration and so i don't think it's very realistic. >> pete? >> well, holly took mine. yea. who did condoleezza rice work for, carol? what was -- what was his name? a name that we haven't heard in a really long time. we haven't heard his name. i don't think he's endorsed anybody. i think mitt romney and the conventional wisdom like will said he's got to pick someone boring, so maybe a dead person, dick clark or john kerry -- >> hey! >> you go to the corner right now! >> he's an entertainer. a dead person would be more boring than mitt romney -- the joke was a dead perso

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