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February 05, 2012Ron Paul: "Intellectual Revolution Going On With Young People"
RON PAUL: "There's been a big change in this country, because there's a different understanding now. There's a lot more people talking about free-market economics rather than Keynesian welfare-ism and interventionism. So there's a large segment. Intellectually, that is the case.
"But among the young people, there is a revolution, an intellectual revolution going on with the young people, and there are people who have sat on the sidelines for years, the independents that I talk to. Obviously, we're not in a large majority right now when the election comes, but all -- anybody who cares about what I'm talking about has to come to the campuses.
"Last night, we had -- in a small college in Minnesota, we had 1,300 people coming out, and they're energized. It has not been translated into an absolute political change, but, believe me, the intellectual revolution going on, and that has to come first before you see the political changes, and that's where I'm very optimistic." 
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"This Week" Roundtable On Romney, Komen And Culture Wars
George Will, Matthew Dowd, Arianna Huffington, and Dana Loesch. Send to a Friend | Permalink
| This Week - Sunday February 5th, 2012 | Send to a Friend
Gingrich: "The Conservatives Clearly Are Rejecting Romney"
Jake Tapper: Why do you think your poll numbers in Florida have collapsed?Newt Gingrich: Well, I think they haven't quite collapsed, and the fact is if you combine the Santorum vote and the Gingrich vote, we clearly are -- the conservative combined would clearly beat Romney. I think he's run a relentlessly negative campaign. Negative ads have an impact. We have not been as effective in telling the truth as he has been in running ads that some of which have had to be pulled because they were so inaccurate.But the fact is this race is going to go on. The conservatives clearly are rejecting Romney. He is nowhere near getting a majority, and the fact is once you get beyond Florida, these are all proportional representation states, and he's not going to be anywhere near a majority by April. So, this is going to go on all the way to the convention. I think clearly the conservatives and the grassroots are increasingly angry about the way in which the Washington establishment has rallied in many ways with complete dishonesty, as Rush Limbaugh pointed out the other day. Some of the articles, some of the attacks on me have been breathtakingly dishonest, and I think as that deepens, the conservatives are going to come together and decide they do not want a Massachusetts liberal to be the Republican nominee. Send to a Friend | Permalink
| This Week - Monday January 30th, 2012 | Send to a Friend
George Will: "We're At The Horrid Stage With Newt Gingrich"
"Time is not Newt Gingrich's friend because the more time he has the more he talks. And the more he talks the more he says things, as he just here this morning, he said that I would love to be civil, but I'm running against a maniacal liar. Now, that's pretty strong language. I don't know if you have ever told Longfellow's nursery rhyme to your 4-year-old daughter Alice yet. 'There's a little girl, had a little curl right in the middle of the forehead. When she was good, she was very good indeed. And when she was bad, she was very horrid.' And we're at the horrid stage with Newt Gingrich," George Will said on ABC's "This Week" today. Send to a Friend | Permalink
"This Week" Roundtable On Gingrich, Florida & Brewer
George Will, Donna Brazile, Austan Goolsbee, and Laura Ingraham Send to a Friend | Permalink
Boehner: House Likely To Attach Keystone Approval To Jobs Bill
“All options are on the table. If it’s not enacted before we take up the American Energy and Infrastructure Jobs Act, it’ll be part of it,” Speaker John Boehner said of the Keystone project, which would extend an oil pipeline from Canada through the United States, on ABC News' "This Week" today.
“Now that the president has decided for political reasons that we’re not going to move ahead just yet, not until after the election… we’re going to have to find another way to lean on the Senate, to take this issue up, because the Keystone pipeline will create … over 100,000 indirect jobs,” Boehner said.
“This is the epitome of a shovel-ready job project that the president ought to be approving,” Boehner added. ”And if he won’t, then let’s let the Congress approve it.” Send to a Friend | Permalink
| This Week - Sunday January 29th, 2012 | Send to a Friend
George Will: Mitt Romney's Problem Is His "Romneyness"
George Will: "Mitt Romney's going in trump card was electability. If you go back now to his 1994 senate primary, he's been in 25 races. His record is six wins and 19 losses. Newt Gingrich won it, it seems at least 43 or 46 counties. He carried women and Evangelical conservative South Carolina. He carried evidently all seven Congressional districts."
"So here's what we now know, we all thought the big problem for Romney might be his Mormonism and it might be the Massachusetts healthcare plan. That's not it. Mitt Romney's problem is somehow his 'Romneyness.' That is the fact that people just are not connecting with him. Not just that he's the first candidate we've ever had from the financial sector, which turns out to be a problem because finances, a, mysterious, and, b, disliked. But there's something about him that is not connecting." Send to a Friend | Permalink
Santorum: Gingrich A "Very High-Risk Candidate"
Appearing on This Week, Santorum denounced the winner of Saturday’s South Carolina GOP primary as an “erratic conservative, someone who on a lot of issues has just been wrong,” adding “we have to have someone who makes Obama the issue in this race, not the Republican nominee.” Send to a Friend | Permalink
"This Week" Roundtable On Newt Gingrich's Surge
George Will, Ron Brownstein, Amy Walter, Katrina vanden Heuvel, and Matthew Dowd discuss. Send to a Friend | Permalink
| This Week - Sunday January 22nd, 2012 | Send to a Friend
George Will: "I'm Astonished How Little Money There Is In Politics"
Stephen Colbert is a better comedian -- and he's an excellent one -- than he is a constitutional scholar. And in fact the Supreme Court has held over and over again that money is indispensable for the dissemination of speech, campaign reformers constantly argue that, a, there's too much political speech in this country, b, they know the right amount and, c, they want to criminalize speech in excess of that.
Reformers spend so much of their time, George, regretting their reforms. Super PACs are a consequence of driving money away from candidates, away from campaigns and away from the parties. Do we have too much money in politics? I'm astonished how little money there is in politics considering the stakes of our politics in allocating wealth and opportunity. In about four weeks, George, people will begin doing in America what they do every year, spending about $2 billion on Easter candy. We spend less on politics. Send to a Friend | Permalink
"This Week" Roundtable On Bain, The Obamas And Tebow
George Will, Cokie Roberts, Jon Karl, Peggy Noonan and Paul Krugman. Send to a Friend | Permalink
Stephen Colbert On "This Week"
The comedian on his (faux) presidential bid and his critique of super PACs. Send to a Friend | Permalink
