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. >> joining me now is perspective vice president, i'm joined by tim dickinson. thank you for being with me. >> it's good to be with you. >> i think you just heard juleanna. does that strategy work running as the wealthy competent businessman when people don't know what you believe. >> i don't think so. i think people connect with presidents on an emotional level and mitt romney has failed throughout the primary campaign to connect on an emotional level of the g.o.p. base. he was supposed to bring this party together, to rally behind them or get a line. here we are sitting in april and there is still--the evangelical block that is right there for santorum to pick off whenever he can, ron paul all the time. he has failed in the basic work of consolidating the g.o.p. base. then he has to try to shift to the center to appeal to all the people that he has offended with his talk contortions to the right to appeal to these people to convince them that he's a true believer on things like abortion, immigration contraception. the list goes on. so romney has just got a ver

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mother jones reporter andy kroll, tim dickinson, thanks so much for your time tonight. >> thank you.u. >> new economic numbers all pointing to one thing, the economy is still on shaky ground, but we are on the right path. my view coming up. etch-a-sketch candidate, an image where romney is anti gas. >>> still ahead investigating the misconduct of the bush-cheney administration. but first let's check in with jennifer grandholm. how is it going? >> it's going great. we're looking at mitt romney campaign strategy of following the leader around but actually we have a great pollster who released the poll today, the leader seems to be president obama he is six points ahead. we'll talk with the man who did the poll. very exciting. we'll have our host our cohost liberally talking stephanie miller. >> excellent. mitt romney has become the stalker. i think the secret service is going to get after him and say you can't do this. >> it's an amazing strategy and we all know that it happens -- >> absolutely. >> we'll talk about it. >> all right. more "viewpoint" coming up next. have a great show, j

the executive editor and tim dickinson, the author of rolling stone. here we start with the fun topic of: do republicans live in a fact-free zone. exhibit "a," allen west. amazing question he gets but a much more amazing response. let's watch >>> okay. two questions. i will start with you term. one, are we back in 1955? i didn't realize that we are trying to do the red scare here two, where do you think he came up with the incredibly specific 78 to 81 communist members? >> i mean, first of all, i think he is just straight trolleying us, try -- trolling us trying to get us talking about allen west because he is a back-bencher with no power and pretty much irrelevant except for being a jerk. the specific number, i think, comes from the house progressive caucus, so he is branding all progressives as communists which is, you know, sort of the tea party line and, you know, it gets folks like you and me riled up, gets his base riled up. and it works for him like it worked for sarah palin to talk about death panels. >> megan i feel like 20 years ago if somebo