updated 4/7/2009 3:42:30 PM ET 2009-04-07T19:42:30  Guest: Frank
Gaffney, David Corn, Charles M. Blow, Alan Gottlieb, Clarence
Page, Chrystia Freeland  High: North Korea launches a rocket
some say could be used as a weapon against the United States.
Spec: Politics; North Korea; Weapons; Middle East  DAVID
SHUSTER, GUEST HOST:  Who is the real nut case, North Korea‘s
Kim Jong-Il or any conservative who wants to bomb him?  Let‘s
play HARDBALL.  Good evening.  I‘m David Shuster, in tonight for
Chris Matthews.  Leading off tonight, nuclear war games.  So
what are we to make of North Korea‘s attempt to send a satellite
into space?  Even though the launch failed, the North Korean
rocket did travel some 2,000 miles, twice as far as an earlier
North Korean rocket.  President Obama called it a provocative
act and wants new U.N. sanctions.  Former House Speaker Newt
Gingrich says we should have bombed North Korea before the
launch.  Is Gingrich crazy to talk like that, or is it dangerous
to hope that sanctions will do