This message is to Rachel.

Per your Friday show, the reason you don't 'get' repub interviewees is that you ask fair & but substantial questions based on facts and if the answer is a misstatement (AKA lie) or a dodge, you follow-up patiently but persistently. (See Rand Paul interview).

This is not the model followed on any of the Sunday yack shows (including that hosted by you own colleague) which specialize in softball questions with no followup no matter what kind of nonsense comes out of the 'guest's' mouth!

Quests like this model. This assures these shows will always get guests because they provide the guest a propaganda launch platform with no troublesome followup questions!

But I assume you already knew this.

I have to ask, WHAT IS WRONG WITH THESE PEOPLE (gop). The other day when I heard romney "repeat" I love car's the first thing that came to mind was the movie rainman, I'm I the only one that got that ?????????????????? Do they think we are all that "STUPID".

@duke-rules

Propaganda runs deep in our free enterprise system. Unlike the State Run Media in Russia and China who have nothing to lose by their broadcasts, we in the "FREE REPUBLIC" have to worry about Corporate Sponsors. This is what we call "Freedom of the Press."

U.S. Constitution, Article VI, Section III:

"The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the Members of the several State Legislatures, and all executive and judicial Officers, both of the United States and of the several States, shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution; but no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States."

No wonder Republicans running for public office never run on their real agenda, never revealing that the only reason they're running for public office is to impose a Constitution-busting "religious test" on other American citizens, but especially American women. Who would trust anything any Republican candidate says, since all the evidence indicates that they'll say one thing while running for any office, only to reverse direction once elected? How many Republicans, for instance, campaigned as anti-abortion, anti-contraceptive, anti-birth control "religious test" Republicans? Are all these Republicans fanatical Constitution-violating Monica Goodling "religious test" clones?

Hey Rachel and Bill. Got a question that has been bugging me for a while.

Can you tell me why Mitt Romney walks with tiny mincing steps most of the time?

Oh no Maddow had a broadcast in which something involving gays was mentioned. I expect to hear outrage over this in 3...2...1...

/snark over

Oh my God! How clueless can you be? You are so fixated on the gay-marriage issue that you have lost your perspective. Why do mega-rich hedgefund managers support Mario Cuomo's battle for gay marriage and also support Mitt Romney? The answer: it has nothing to do with gay marriage. Let me help you connect the dots.

Mario Cuomo II is governor of NEW YORK, which coincidentally is where WALL STREET is. Your three "zillionaires" support Cuomo's pet project because it will do two things: (1) guarantee Coumo's incumbency for the foreseeable future, and (2) indebt Cuomo to his benefactors for guaranteeing his position as King of New York.

Attack your question from this angle: what do Coumo and Romney both have to offer their common zillionaires? Answer: A hands-off position towards the financial industry. The truth is, hedgefund managers don't vote for Republicans because they're anti-gay marriage. They vote Republican, because the R's are anti-regulation. They don't give a fiddler's fart about gay marriage. They care about influence, and that's what they're buying in both cases.

You're so fixated on identity politics, that you analyze this question like it were a game of checkers. Think chess, and the skys will clear.

The question is why do they always smile? It doesn't matter what they talk about, they are "always" smiling.

Regarding Mitt Romney's references to the height of the trees in Michigan, there is this to consider. Before the devastation of Dutch Elm Disease in the 1960s and '70s, Detroit had a vast green canopy from spring to fall formed by Dutch Elms, their curving trunks creating cathedral-like avenues through city and suburban streets.

I worked summers at Chrysler's Mack Avenue stamping plant while in college and took my lunch to the factory roof six stories up. From there one could see the top of this green canopy stretching out in all directions to the horizon, pierced only by factories or church steeples or distant downtown skyscrapers. This effect was common all over Michigan because Dutch Elms were prized as fast-growing shade trees.

Anyone growing up in Detroit in the decades before the worst of the disease would have fond memories of the city's Dutch Elms, especially in fall as the leaves were quite fragrant when burned in large piles which every street had every autumn. (See the link below to a 2001 Detroit News historical article on the city's elms.)

Mitt Romney may be a joke as a presidential candidate, but if he was referring to Dutch Elms in his childhood memories, they would well worth remembering.

http://apps.detnews.com/apps/history/index.php?id=9

My husband wants to know, why romney wares levi's sense he has never worked a day in his live.

Rachel: Regarding the Pennsylvania ultrasound bill - please see this article that has more of the requirements (like recording whether or not the woman watched or listened and placing that in her medical record) but note this response from Republican Todd Rock regarding a transvaginal probe:

"I guess it is a little more invasive, but the idea is to take measurements to determine the gestational age, and you have to do it this way to get that kind of detail," Rock said of the transvaginal method. "I don't think that's much to ask if the life of a baby is hanging in the balance."

Also, this sudden rash of bills is clearly coordinated Here's the possible source of these bills:

The anti-abortion group Americans United for Life has created model legislation for ultrasound policy that, according to the organization, has influenced some of the recent state bills, including Texas’

The model legislation has a misleading name:

Women's Ultrasound Right to Know Act

Congrats to all the cities that have gotten the Welcome back Heroes parades under way! We in California cannot even get CalTrans to consider using their electronic billborrds throughout the state to flash a welcome home sentence. I think it is CalTrans.CA.gov.

Great show tonight Rachel. The GOP definitely is in disarray and dat array. Not sure what they are trying to accomplish this year by behaving in such a hateful way. A Facebook Friend of mine (a classmate from high school had an interesting project he kicked off last week; and, I think everyone could benefit from what came of it. You see the topic was conversation and what it is. He gathered a group of associates and met over coffee to try and define what a conversation is. How this relates to what is going on in the GOP primarys just hit me. I threw in my 2 cents (he's in Seattle and I am in Austin), he and his friends defined what an ideal conversation should consist of --- of course they were right in their own respect; however, I brought up the point of how the dynamic changes when the new character comes along and is trying to impress everyone with their bravado. I pointed out how the new guy/gal just starts saying whatever they think they need to say in order to impress the others ---- conversation becomes a oneway venue for them: I mean they are not listening to the boos of the crowd. I hope this makes some sense to you in describing how easy it is for these GOPEERS to stray. Than again, it may be that tyhey are just G) Peeing on everyone else and are distracting themselves. I always try to use a bit of humor in my writing, it helps get me by.

This is for Rachel,

Great show but I have a question. Why are you allowing corporations that want to mine the Canadian Tar pits to advertise on your show? You talk about money politics - what about money TV? Your show has a ridiculous number of ads - you are loosing my view. Leaning forward is the first action taken in standing up.

Why are you taking ad

Call me a cynic but I don't understand the confusion Rachel and Mr Rich have over politicians beliefs and the game of election politics.

When it comes to nominations and presidential elections a vast majority of politicians will portray their beliefs and views on what will get them the job. Billionaire contributors and corporations understand this.

Yeah will if what Kaz says is our reality: Why bother to vote, Why have a political party? Why insist democracy is so great? Why think elections are important? Why even have a country? As usual we are all using words of non sense.

Rachel Maddow keeps on talking about the post-CU world but since it's so popular to speak of how it gave power to corporations, it's mightly confusing how it would help a PERSON, billionaire or not. There is a reason (having to do with the definition of "corruption") but you never hear it talked about. Just a bunch of talk about corporations being people. I find this aggravating and leads to ignorance. Please Rachel, have someone like Rick Hasen or Zephyr Teachout (on Chris Hayes) talk about the "corruption" issue and what we can do about it.

I keep wondering why M Moore hasn't addressed all that Benton Harbor mess??

Yes, great show, Rachel. I thought I'd add to the list of states that are increasing the waiting periods for abortion (Utah--not surprising).

http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/politics/53586874-90/abortion-abortions-decision-eliason.html.csp

Hey, What happened to the St Lawrence University baseball cap in the background/ The color made a nice touch.