it's run by the republican party, itself. so the iowa state republican party makes its own rules about how to run things tomorrow night. they could have decided to do what republicans in the iowa legislature have been pushing for the whole state this year. they could have banned any caucus-goer from voting unless he or she showed a government issued photo i.d. which of course not everyone has. the party decided for its caucuses it would not require that. see, in the state of iowa in a general election, you're not banned from voting if you don't show a government issued photo i.d. in iowa you can show a non-driver i.d. card or student i.d. or something else that proves where you live like a bill or piece of mail. if you have none of those things, another registered voter can vouch for you, say you are who you are. that's how it works including in iowa for statewide elections. vote is your right as a citizen. there are not supposed to be arbitrary or prejudicial bureaucratic barriers to exercise that right. if you're elderly an

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year be sort of a curse for the republican party. this year, though, it might be a blessing or at least a welcomed distraction. why that is coming up. >>> back in the republican primary in 2000, arizona senator john mccain ran into trouble in south carolina when somebody started a smear campaign against him. the charge, utterly baseless, but politically potent. it was that senator mccain fathered an african-american child out of wedlock and was now posing her as one of his adopted children. a classic whispering campaign making his first run for president. somebody decided to stoke evangelical fear of mr. romney's religion in south carolina by mailing out bogus holiday cards that quoted a book of mormon passage about the exceedingly fair and white holy virgin and another endorsing polygamy. it was paid for by the boston massachusetts temple, as in mormon temple. romney campaign said they had not sent these cards and this kind of trickery has no place in american politics, and, of course, it doesn't except every four years in south car

mitt romney has just been declared by the iowa republican party the winner. but look at this vote total. he defeats senator rick santorum by 8 votes out of 60,000. 60,000 between them, 120,000 all told. and coming up in third place, just behind him, ron paul in a strong showing here with a fervent, passionate support. he goes on. newt gingrich coming in fourth. texas governor rick perry, michele bachmann, and jon huntsman bringing up the rear there. but what an extraordinarily close race, just minutes ago here in des moines. the chairman of the republican party made the announcement. >> but i can report with 1770 precincts reporting, governor mitt romney received 30,015 votes. senator rick santorum received 30,007 votes. congratulations to governor mitt romney, winner of the 2012 iowa caucuses. congratulations to senator santorum for a very close second place finish and an excellent race here. and congratulations to congressman paul and all the other candidates who competed in the 2012 iowa caucuses. thank you very much and have a good night. >> 8 votes. abc'

>> there's a fight within the republican party. you have the rise of the tea party and the establishment making an argument, and your former running mate, sarah palin, posted something on facebook. she rights i have a great concern about the gop establishment trying to apoint in a candidate without the blessing of the grassroots. you do have the split in the party. does that guarantee that gingrich could stay in and this could go on quite a while? >> i think it could go on a while and it would not be to our benefit. if we would have hung on in 1995, we could have -- the libertarian party could have won the next election. to say we should have hung on a little longer is remarkable. but the point is -- listen, by the way i love sarah and i agree with her. she may have had different experiences with newt than i did in 2007 when president bush showed great courage and started the surge and that's what saved us in iraq, at least militarily. and it was irrelevant and inadequate is what newt said. he attacked ronald reagan in 1986 when we

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hamvi was not allowed into the republican party, what did you do? >> well, i-- i personally praised the leadership of the broward republican party -- >> wait what? >> i spoke out against him. i put together fliers and i had them distributed at the meeting. >> oh s so it was kaufman, the anti-bigotry crusader who called ham very a terrorist. >> what is the name of your group again. >> americans against hate. >> right. >> and what is your definite nation of against. >> what is the definition of "against" >> yeah. >> going against something that you believe is wrong. >> we just used the same word. >> i know, but i don't exactly have the dictionary in front of me to figure that out. >> but you don't need a dixary to see why mamvi doesn't belong in the republican party. >> well, he is the local head of care, the council on american islamic relations, an organization that was started by a terrorist group overseas. >> yes, care, the nefarious muslim civil rights group lead by director nihada wad, a man no republican would ever associate with. but kaufman's

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no matter what the republican party said about the big dumb rule they broke. that's why everybody's been saying that florida is winner take all. they are planning on that. they would like it to be so. however, there are rules and as reported, nobody really knows how florida is going to allot its delegates in the end. quote, all it takes is a registered florida republican to file a protest with the rnc and the party's contest committee would have to consider the issue when it meets in august just before the convention. so, bottom line, florida wants to be winner take all in terms of its delegates. they want to be seen that way. they want you to say that about them. they're sort of not supposed to be able to say that. and it maybe won't be decided until august how florida allocates its delegates. anybody who tells you that it is a settled issue had as much time as i have sprained their blessed eyeballs reading republican national committee arcane delegate rules. there you have it. >>> next up, true or false, republican presidential candidate mitt romney says cat

now it's the head of the republican party. he goes on television this weekend and compared president obama to a man accused of manslaughter. >> in a few months this is all going to be ancient history we'll talk about our own little captain schettino, president obama who is abandoning the ship here in the united states and more interested in campaigning than doing his job as president. >> what did you just say, what did you call president obama? >> i called him captain schettino. the captain that fled the ship in italy. that is our own president who is fleeing the american people and not doing his job and running around the country and campaigning. >> the captain of the italian cruise ship faces criminal charges in the deaths of at least 17 people. he is accused of abandoning the ship even people within the republican party said he was out of line with the comments. but he defended himself on fox news today. >> this is ridiculous, megan. analogy was made and analogy of leadership in a time of crisis, in a time of crisis this pr

my guest tonight says that romney is the hope of the republican party. that's funny, because he's also the hope of the obama campaign. please welcome david frum. [cheering and applause] thank you very much. hey mr. frum. david, good to see you again. thanks for coming back. >> thank you. >> stephen: all right, all right. you are no stranger to this show. you know i'm going to bring it hot and hard, and you know i got some problems with the things you're saying right now. >> i'm ready for it. >> stephen: back in november you wrote a little article for "new york" magazine that said, "when did the g.o.p. lose touch with reality." >> yes. >> stephen: okay. first of all, why is it a bad thing to lose touch with reality? have you seen reality lately? it's terrible. >> it's pretty bad. and a lot of people are suffering pretty badly. and what happens in a democracy is parties should be competing to offer solutions to the problems that people have. >> stephen: they are. they are. the republicans are competing to see who can do the biggest tax cut. >> workable sol

is this the republican party that you expected to be courting? >> i've always been a constant republican. i've worked for three republican presidents. i haven't varied or wavered. the republican party as a backdrop is going to change every now and again. we've had abraham lincoln's party. we've had teddy roosevelt's party. we've had eisenhower's party, nixon's party, reagan's party and beyond. it is always remaking itself based upon leadership, and we don't have a whole lot of leadership right now today, and i think that's part of the problem. so you get the ron paul foreign policy based on complete isolationism, you get the mitt romney foreign policy based upon the cold war mentality. i'm not sure either one of them is the way forward, and that's the reason this selection is so critically important, not only for the high stakes for the american people but for the definition of the republican party going forward. >> there is a saying there is no greater burden than high expectations. do you feel frustrated at all? >> no. because all you can do is

party, nor does the national republican party. any big money super billionaire who chooses to do so can pull money in any campaign state-wide or national campaign, mind you much of the money is secret and hidden, the candidate may have one agenda, may see an ad up says i don't agree with that, too bad jack, they have the money. a second way is wait a minute, maybe this is not such a good idea including among republicans and conservatives. so much so i wouldn't be surprised to see if not in the next congress, very soon, republicans joining to say the supreme court has spoken, this is now the law of the land we can't change it not immediately let's at least see where the money comes from. somebody's name should be attached here, keep in mind right now, contribute all kind of secret money and your name may never be known that it's coming from you. >> do you think there is enough negative sort of blow-back against candidates from off message statements that are nevertheless supposed to be toward their benefit that candidates are more

how big a tent is that with the republican party? only time will tell. >> we've got some first numbers. >> no one cared. no one knew he was doing it. running as a republican puts him in televised debates and people talk about what he thinks. that's why he's doing it. >> let me interrupt for a moment. we have a couple of our first numbers, very small numbers but here is what we've got in terms of our iowa results thus far. 9, 4, and 3 are vote totals right now 43%, 19%, and 14% the division of labor between ron paul, rick perry, and mitt romney. this is only 1% of the vote in so extrapolate from this at your peril. at this point the nbc call on this is still that this is too early to call and that the three candidates contending to win in iowa tonight are ron paul, mitt romney, and rick santorum. i want to go to chris matthews in des moines. chris, on the issue of whether or not ron paul's supporters are available to be courted by any means in the republican party or if they are seen as a species apart. what's your view on that? >> we

does the tea party exist? is the tea party an actual force in the republican party? like everybody has been saying for 2 1/2 years now. are aren't they? a group called national tea party alert.com sent out an e-mail from newt gingrich, it had the subject line, "do you want to stop mitt romney or not." in the e-mail he writes there is no more time for talking about stopping mitt romney, we're going to do it next week in south carolina or he's almost certain to be the republican nominee, whether conservatives like us want it or not. mr. gingrich asks for money to "defeat mitt romney and the republican establishment next week in south carolina." the entire republican establishment is now piling on newt gingrich right now. to try to stop -- to make him stop attacking mitt romney, specifically for mitt romney's business record. don't run the when mitt romney came to town attack ad about his economic record in the private sector, stop saying things and get on board. private equity executives our kind of people, shut up, newt gingrich. this is the test. is there an anti-est

i'm not so sure that the republican party. i feel that the establishment of the party is disrespectful to him. >> because they like their version of big government. i don't believe there's two parties. >> jon: don't look at them -- >> jackson, remember him? >> jon: whenever you turn and look out i'm like oh, (bleep) something bad is about to happened he's going this country was founded -- >> we have one big government party. it has a democratic wing that likes war and taxes and individual welfare and a republican wing that likes war and deficits and corporate welfare. only somebody like ron paul believes that the government should leave you alone, tax you minimally and that government is best which governs least. you believe that, jon stewart, don't you. >> jon: you don't know i believe it but now that you say it i weirdly want to hug you. freedom watch. it's the judge andrew napolitano. [cheers and applause]

parties, the rockefeller republicans and the reagan conservative republicans. the battle is between those two republican parties tonight. tonight, the reagan republicans won. >> michael reagan, a good night for all reagan conservatives i would imagine. andrew, nice that you and i pamped things up. andrew, thank you for your yinlts shun, too. >> thank you. >>> just ahead, the truth about mitt romney, the capitalist and the guy who wrote the book about him. uh-oh. [ male announcer ] when diarrhea hits, kaopectate stops it fast. powerful liquid relief speeds to the source. fast. [ male announcer ] stop the uh-oh fast with kaopectate. >>> mitt romney is taking a lot of heat over his corporate career. with me now is michael and scott, authors of "the real romney." and carol roth, business strategist and author of "the entrepreneur equation." michael and scott, you wrote the book on mitt romney. on the face of it, he has a brilliant resume to be president. and yet at the moment, this message is being translated into he doesn't understand the cares and concerns of ord

will he leave the republican party and mount a third party challenge? i think he won't and it destroys the future of his republican senator's son. this is the biggest and most important question when you give consideration to the general election ahead. who knows the answer. >> the unemployment rate in iowa is 5.7%. in new hchl shirt 5.2%. in south carolina it's 9.9%. >> there is a market for populism, aspect mitt romney populism. that would replace it. >> if they intend to pursue that, south carolina can be very interesting, but i think what the established order there for the governor demint going where they are going, romney gets more strength than one would think and he comes in 2-0. the two factors that we keep saying will be paul and i think he will be just as much of a problem in the tent for the republicans as he will be out. i think that you are sleeping on romney's message tonight. i think it will help energize the moderate independence and the democrats. he is running on appeasement and cannot get anywhere after bin laden and all and running

the republican party has always wanted to conserve power and wealth where it already was. and as we know from most of our nation's history, it was with the rich whites in america. and if you go back to william buckley who was the godfather of modern conservatism, he was very much a racist. he came right out and said that black people were inferior people, and so we did not deserve the same kind of policy considerations as others. he said that. it's documented. >> professor hendricks, thank you for your time tonight. >> my pleasure. >>> scott walker leads the nation in job loss, but south carolina senator jim demint wants him to be president. psycho talk is next. your mascara may be voluminous but will it last 'til the end. it will is it's new lashblast 24hr with anti smudge power. [ male announcer ] through dining dancing drama break ups and make ups. the anti smudge formula holds on. who knew lashes this big and beautiful could last this long. [ male announcer ] new lashblast 24hr from covergirl. [ sofia ] don't you wish all endings could be this easy breezy beautiful. if

the republican party has always wanted to conserve power and wealth where it already was. and as we know from most of our nation's history, it was with the rich whites in america. and if you go back to william buckley who was the godfather of modern conservatism, he was very much a racist. he came right out and said that black people were inferior people, and so we did not deserve the same kind of policy considerations as others. he said that. it's documented. >> professor hendricks, thank you for your time tonight. >> my pleasure. >>> scott walker leads the nation in job loss, but south carolina senator jim demint wants him to be president. psycho talk is next. ♪ [ male announcer ] a simple gesture can spark romance anytime. and when it does, men with erectile dysfunction can be more confident in their ability to be ready with cialis for daily use. cialis for daily use is a clinically proven low-dose tablet you take every day so you can be ready anytime the moment's right, even if it's not every day. [ man ] tell your doctor about all your medical conditions and medicat

come to the republican party. we are the land of opportunity and the party that believes in people and the opportunity to lead to their lives. >> in addition to being the chairman of the republican party, you are also a cpa. the president talked about the 30% minimum tax running on economic populism. the buffet role and whether or not people who may be middle- class pay a lower middle class -- lower tax rate. do you take it is fair what the situation is now in the tax code? do you think the candidates are doing a good enough job on taxes, particularly mitt romney in defending his tax returns that came out? tax returns are completely irrelevant. when i talk to my neighbors and folks i go to church with and folks my kids play with, they do not care what their neighbor pay in tax. we are focused on our lives and raising our families. that is class warfare. we have a tax code that needs to be reformed. it is complicated. there are loopholes for any number of people. our corporate tax is too high. a lower tax rate will

you need to know this whether the republican republican party likes it or not willard mitt romney is going to be the nominee the anti romney establishment hope that this weekend's debate doubleheader might change the game in new hampshire they hope that rick santorum fresh off his tie in iowa might step up to be the guy the anti mit's can rally around they hope that newt gingrich who pledged to destroy romney with truthful negative ads would beat up the front runner so badly in front of television audiences that romney's solid is rock twenty five percent support might begin to disappear they hope that someone anyone could turn this into a race but as we stand here tonight one night ahead of the new hampshire primary none of that happened sure the romney rivals got their hits in sunday morning's n.b.c. debate targeting romney as a failed governor a career politician a corporate raider and a divider. his record was so great as governor of massachusetts why don't you run for reelection i mean if you don't want to even stand before the people of massachusetts and run on your record that

, it is the republican party. nixon used to call it the mink coat party and the cloth coat party. >> that's exactly right. and being at some of these rallies for newt gingrich, not only in south carolina, but also in florida, these are folks in tattoos, they're chanting, usa, usa! >> and they're newt people. >> i think he's running the same argument against romney that he is against obama, which is to say that both of these folks are outside -- >> what's his solution to the fact? what's his populism about? newt's? >> i think his populism is about romney and obama are not one of us. they're not regular americans. they don't get the sort of experiences that newt gingrich frankly experienced when he was -- >> but doesn't newt. i don't want to argue the politics here, but doesn't newt support the same kind of tax breaks for the rich that romney does? >> he does, but i think the benefit to him is that romney embodies that tax bracket much more so that deny. >> what do the voters think's different between the two groups