what s the other definition of best and strong if it s not electability? well, i think it s not just electability. it s their record and their stand on the issues. i think people respect what governor perry has done as governor of texas, in creating jobs. they look at newt gingrich as an idea person. they see rick santorum as having solid conservative record. they see ron paul as somebody who is consistently voted against increasing the federal debt, manipulating the currency. so they see some strengths in all of these candidates, but, in the end, they have to choose the one they think is best and they think will be the best president for our country. so it s an important responsibility. iowans take it seriously. i m expecting we re going to see a great turnout at the republican precinct caucuses tomorrow night. what do you make of the surgery rick santorum? no one in the race has spent less money and arguably until he went up in the polls, nobody got less attention.
awful things about newt gingrich without any signature. i mean, i think they ought to put bowling shirts around these ads so you really know or little league ads who is actually pay forge them, which we don t know. the voters don t know. when you read the paper, hear some of the folks there, a lot of them are muting these ads. they ve had it. there s been too much. they ve been inundated, all that money that s been spent. but if there is a lack of enthusiasm, chris, dow think small numbers will come out for the caucus? what dow think is going to happen tomorrow night? reporter: well, it s very cold, windy. it s a challenge go out at night, a challenge during the day here. it s iowa and it s january now. so you have go outside at night, you have to go out and spend some time out there, you have to vote. it s not like going out in the day with the sunlight. i thil the evening will depress some of the moderate vote that 0 would perhaps go to romney. i think you ll see tremendous e
best and strong if it s not electability? well, i think it s not just electability. it s their record and their stand on the issues. i think people respect what governor perry has done as governor of texas, in creating jobs. they look at newt gingrich as an idea person. they see rick santorum as having solid conservative record. they see ron paul as somebody who is consistently voted against increasing the federal debt, manipulating the currency. so they see some strengths in all of these candidates, but, in the end, they have to choose the one they think is best and they think will be the best president for our country. so it s an important responsibility. iowans take it seriously. i m expecting we re going to see a great turnout at the republican precinct caucuses tomorrow night. what do you make of the surgery rick santorum? no one in the race has spent less money and arguably until he went up in the polls, nobody got less attention. maybe nobody had lower name
if i were neuwelt, i would not be comparing myself to john kerry. i thai s not eye good idea in the first place. second of all, i do happen to remember that it was the swiftboat veterans for truth so, again, newt s on the wrong side of that metaphor as well. it sounded good in the beginning but my guess is he wishes he hadn t said that. the issue for newt is it, how long can he keep dog this? one of the things we know about newt, when i was press secretary, communications director on the political side when he was speaker is that he truly believes that most people who have a good idea but fail, fail because they gave up too soon. and we ve seen that already here. we saw it from 1982 to 1994 when he started plotting to take over the house. he didn t know what year it was going to happen, but he has a long view of these things. i don t think he s going anywhere. he ll be nipping at the heels until he flat runs out of money or he just overtakes the whole campaign. steve, is is that wh
and his bus and going around door to door. he spent almost no money there compared tolt other kacandidate that s true and it appears it will have worked here fleece to get him in the top three. the problem for santorum is that he doesn t have six months between here and new hampshire. he doesn t have six months between new hampshire and south carolina and between south carolina and florida. so the question everybody is asking is, if he does very well here, as steve says, if he has the kind of surge it looks like, how does he monetize that and how does he extend that through the rest of the month? there are four of these events within 28 daze. that s a high hill to climb for someone who s been living ost land. i m going to skip ahead to tell the control room, i want to skip ahead since we re talking about rick santorum. one of the interesting things that s come up is who he endorsed for president the last time around. let me play that little clip for you. senator santorum was kind