wayne powell thinks he can take him down. >> hi, wayne powell, running for congress.way spending that is driving our debt, fight big corporations that are sending jobs overseas. i want to represent neighbors like you not people who can write me the biggest check. >> wayne, you're my kind of republican. >> i'm a democrat. >> cenk: well, it's not a positive ending but maybe we can chase the ending of that story. in fact, if you look at the numbers, they're not that great. he has a 37% favorable rating. that's should be 37%. and then 31% unfavorable. and then shows want to go reelect him are only 41% and 43% say they want to replace him. and shockingly enough, 68% say they would support a pro-choice candidate and only 23% would short a pro-life candidate. and those are encouraging numbers. wayne powell joins us now in the studio. freight to have you here. >> glad to be here tell me what kind of campaign you're running and what are you focusing on. >> platform in two parts economic fairness and social justice. what that means--and i heard your prior segment all of this ob

it because it's all coming from middle class, hard-working and blue collar americans. >> now, wayne powell candidate, is running against eric cantor and politico reports house republicans don't even want to talk about romney tapes. "majority leader eric cantor, who your client is challenge, declined comment on romney's closed-door remarks as did house and senate gop offices contacted by politico on tuesday." your opponent will not talk about this? >> well, you've got to remember, you can take romney, and i think this hasn't caught on and i think it is going to catch on in the next 45 days and that is you can take romney, ryan or cantor, they are not really republicans. they are corporatists is who these people are. they have abandoned, you know, all forms of fiscal conservatism. paul ryan and eric cantor beat on their chest about that ryan budget and how fiscally conservative it was. the truth was it raised the deficit, increased the national debt $3 trillion. i mean, let's get a hold on this thing. and i mean, the political gamesmanship that's going on now, i mean, doing another repeal of

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me is steve kornacki, co-host of "the cycle" here on cnbc, and democratic strategist, advising wayne powell, the democrat trying to unseat house leader eric cantor. thank you for coming on the show tonight. >> sure. >> great being here. >> good to see you, mud cat. steve, let me start with you. romney's clearly not the best candidate, but aren't his policies, or lack of policies, isn't that what really is dragging him down? >> yeah. i mean, i think he's constrained by two forces here. when you look at the question of policy specificity. the first is sort of where his party is on an array of issues. the republican party sort of, the base of the republican party, and when you look at demands of its candidates is particularly far to the right. the gap between where the republican party is and where the average general election swing voter is, i think is wider than usual this year. so, on any given issue, if romney really expresses the base's message there's going to be a bigger gap than usual between where he is and where the rest of the public is. the other issue when you start talking about

in virginia, house majority leader erik cantor debates army colonel wayne powell. then at 8:00 eastern, -- a debate for the open nebraska senate seat. that debate is live on c-span. >> it don't you think it's interesting that in all of these really tough times we talk about these big numbers, the house, the senate and the white house don't reduce their salaries? think about it. >> do you think they should? >> in a company, he would have to. everybody would. it never even comes up. the point being all the things, if that's the condition of our country, and it is, they need to set the first example of making the cut back for themselves. >> watch the entire interview with former presidential candidate ross perot on monday. he is interviewed by a "usa today"'s richard wolfe. he talks about how things have changed since he ran for president in 1992 and 1996. find the article in "usa today" on monday. >> next, the federalist society previews the supreme court's upcoming term that starts on monday. they talk about cases related to the defense of project, putting rights, a

. >> stephanie: we have colonel wayne powell.me. we'll be right back on the "stephanie miller show." ♪ ♪ in her uptown world ♪ ♪ oh, oh, oh, oh, oh ♪ >> stephanie: it is the "stephanie miller show." welcome to it, 23 minutes after the hour. vacation momma and roland's pictures are up. the bike tour and the kennedy compound. >> it looks like a douche commercial. you are joyous on a beach. >> stephanie: i am joyous on a beach. >> are you on a horse? >> stephanie: no. can i just say that boys are disgusting -- traveling with somebody 24-7. i saw his balls. >> what? >> stephanie: yes, he was laying a robe i was like oh god! [ screaming ] [ laughter ] >> when was the last time you saw those? >> stephanie: it has been a long time -- >> i have forgotten what those look like -- >> i just think i'm going barf! >> stephanie: yeah and he saw my cooter once he said. he is like traveling with a toddler. his bag explodes -- >> he is high strung. >> stephanie: he is like big pen. his stuff is everywhere. >> you two were made for each other. you