it gave us ad lib stevenson and william jennings bryan -- badly stephenson and william jennings bryan- adlai stephenson william jennings bryan. reagan came within 100 votes of toppling the sitting president so that could happen again, and if i were a republican presidential candidate, unlikely as that is, i certainly would not say the pundits have said we've got to get this over by super tuesday so we can move on to baseball season -- they have nothing to lose by fighting as long as they can, if only to affirm what principles they have. host: wisconsin gregory independent collar, good morning. caller: yes on that note, as far as he's saying principles, that is a good comment. as a historian, presley, i would like you to -- personally, i would like you to answer -- we have had rush limbaugh and norquist as comedians directing the republican party, and they have these candidates now on the republican party running, and i look at them as comedians, and i'm wondering, as an historian personally have you ever seen a bunch of people that have been running that act like a bunch of comedians

marco rubio did a william jennings bryan yesterday morning.ll give you the benefit of the doubt on the lack of material here. it is going to be a big day for romney and santorum. romney has to show that he can address a conservative audience and rorouse them.m. santorum has a way to say that he is a player at the top level. i think what is most important, of course, is what will happen in the primaries at the end of this month, which will be michigan and arizona. if michigan falls to santorum, that could really doom the romney race. >> president obama is now on thehe super pac bandwagon i guess he cannot afford not to. jay carney as said that this administration has done more than any to prevent the influence of lobbying government by interests. >> they took a good look at florida and what mitt romney was able to do with money against nenewt gingrich, and it concentrates the mind wonderfully. we e going to need money to stand up to this onslaught coming from the conservatives. >> citizens united. >> one of the statistics that comes out of you,

marco rubio did a william jennings bryan yesterday morning. all right, i will give you the benefit of the doubt, the lack of material here. it is going to be a big day for romney and santorum. romney has to show he can address a conservative audience and rouse them. santorum has a way to say that he is a player at the top level. what is most important is what is going to happen in the primaries at the end of this month, which will be michigan and arizona. michigan falls to santorum, i think that could be -- could really doom the romney race. >> president obama is on the super pac bandwagon. jay carney said at the white house that this administration has done more in his bid to prevent the lobbying of the government. >> they looked at florida and what mitt romney was able to do against newt gingrich. it concentrates the mind wonderfully. they realize that we will need money to stand up to the onslaught from the conservatives. >> citizens united. >> i think that of the money spent by these super pacs, 97% negative. aere it is a torrent of downer

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this income tax there was a one percent tax that applied to one percent i know that yeah william jennings bryan when i was a tax on the rich yes it was and it was an attempt to convert this place the tariff at the time and that's why a lot of people favorite favorite is first in the south in the west because as opposed to replace the tariff and the taxes northern industrial guys and we get that washington off our back but eventually look what i mean this is you know it's losing us every day not just the income tax payroll tax which for a lot of people is a much larger portion of the tax burden than the income tax and so in your opposed to the income tax you know and there's a philosophical reason because there's a presumption behind the income tax that the government owns your income they can take whatever it wants and whatever they leave you is just sort of a favor they give you with this is runs contrary to everything classical liberalism ever taught i mean thomas jefferson in his inaugural address in one thousand nine hundred when he when he became one to be president that the workers deserv

enter the public arena or the presidency, and he cited many examples, including those of william jennings bryane candidate for the party in 1876, who was an attractive candidate at the time. i do believe a president so open about that probably did make the decision on that, and i understand where speaker gingrich would come from. host: george writes in by e-mail -- guest: just a second now. when mitt romney was governor of massachusetts, and remember, i qualified his conservatism, he had to deal with the state legislature that was not only in democratic hands with firm majorities but at the end of his term, at almost 8 2/3 bidault- proof majority, and that is how they -- veto-proof majority, and that is how they denied the governor to appoint a senator when they thought john kerry might wind and mitt romney might appoint a republican. just remember what he was dealing with in massachusetts. host: sort myers, florida. pat, a democrat. caller: the catholic church, who made a fuss about this, in -- embraced a policy that was against their belief for 50 years. they paid for, circumvented the law, a