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State of The Union?

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Judging the SOTU

This week, Jon Gabriel sits in for Peter Robinson (he'll be back next week --promise!) as we're joined by two of the sharpest observers in politics. Matthew Continetti is the Editor-In-Chief of the Washington Free Beacon. We chat with him about this week's State of The Union address, thin skinned liberals, American Sniper's cultural impact, and the romantic genius of John Milius. Then, our old friend Mickey Kaus stops by to discuss his out of the box idea for Mitt Romney to appeal to working class voters (spoiler alert: it involves Mitt moving in to Mickey's apartment). Also, does Barbara Boxer's retirement herald a Kaus Komeback? Stranger things have happened...

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  • Petty Boozswha@PettyBoozswha
    Re Mickey's comment about a Schwarzenegger type up the middle candidate competing for California Senator - are the Republicans trying to recruit anyone? I would recommend Ron Howard but any ideas would be interesting to the Ricochetti.
  • BD

    Rob Long on last week's podcast: "I had a conversation with a prominent Republican activist in November, who told me hands down, there's no question about it, it's going to cost one billion dollars to put a person in the White House in 2016. And the only Republican candidate who can raise one billion dollars is Jeb Bush".

    This "prominent Republican activist" was probably Haley Barbour. Barbour is one of the 112 people Jeb Bush is "following" on his Twitter page.

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