for me because i m not your white knight. i m not coming in to rescue you. that s the bottom line most important takeaway. don t look for me to rescue this situation if you think it needs rescuing. point number one. point two, remember, within the bush family and that tea party aspect and activist wing of the party there s always been antipathy. it s grown since 2006. tea partiers do not consider themselves bush republicans. bush republicans and bush republicanism, even under george w. bush, somewhat in minimum high regard. so jeb bush is not exactly the spokesperson for that wing of the party when they hear him say that. they don t say there s something wrong with me. they are more inclined to say there s something wrong with jeb. there is a little bit of jeb was more the trusted conservative of the two. especially now. much more philosophic than w. it is fascinating how all of the most effective hits on santorum by romney at the debate the other night were for things
wrong with me. they are more inclined to say there s something wrong with jeb. jeb was more the trusted conservative of the two. especially now. much more philosophic than w. it is fascinating how all of the most effective hits on santorum by romney at the debate the other night were for things santorum supported which were bush initiatives. as much bashing as the bush administration, republican years to the santorum record. why did you support no child left behind? why did you support the bailout? this is friday. you have your new nbc battleground map of which way states are leaning. the magic number to win the presidential election is 270 electoral votes. let s start with the democrats. this shows they 18 states and the district of columbia in blue either solidly, likely or leaning democrat. electoral votes out of the 227 right now. put that down. 227 for the democratic side as of now leaning or likely or there solidly. now to the republican side. this is the red map.
there s he opposed president obama s bailout of detroit, while at the same time arguing that the bailout worked. because the president did exactly what romney said he suggested all along. here s romney taking a step at that argument at wednesday night s debate. i wrote an op ed in the paper and i said absolutely not. these companies need to go through a managed bankruptcy just like airlines have and other industries have. go through a managed bankruptcy. and if they go through the managed bankruptcy and shed the excess of cost put on them by the uaw and their own mismanagement, then if they need help coming out of bankruptcy, the government can provide guarantees and get them back on their feet. well, just the proof that he had that audience stacked out there. they applauded the word bankruptcy. no audience in america applauds the word bankruptcy unless they were cued to do it by a bunch of whips now the the audience. which is what he had going there. anyway. steve rattner was the
debate of this campaign season. one more and the debates will be able to drink legally. mostly to forget about the terrible things they ve heard. in these debates. newt gingrich who throughout the night articulated a worldview that made him sound like he d grown up during the great depression, several world wars and had the bubonic plague. virtually anywhere in the world could be in danger at virtually any minute. we re now looking at an abyss. all of us are more at risk today, men and women, boys and girls, than at any time in the history of this country. all right. after all that, i m almost afraid to hear gingrich s one word for himself. cheerful. well, maybe newt gingrich is cheerful because he likes it when things go bad. think about that, jon. next up. what a difference four years makes. arizona senator john mccain may
and the tourists are back. i was born here, i m still here and so is bp. back to hardball. now for the sideshow. first up, strategy session that may have sounded like the most straight-forward of questions when the four gop candidates were asked to describe themselves in just one word. still some of us were thrown when newt gingrich went with cheerful. here s jon stewart weighing in on the debate and newt gingrich s description of himself. let s watch. the 20th debate of this campaign season. one more, and the debates will be able to drink legally. mostly to forget about the