i m going so ask you both for your assessments looking at the field. is the republican party now so red hot they don t want to hear from a cool-headed middle of the road type? no, there s always a turn in the campaign people start looking at electability. already? are primary voters and caucus voters impulse voters? people we hear from now are emoting and as the calendar goes on and pool of candidates expand, they are more sensible and pragmatic. smarter to run romney? romney s making this case, and i think there s an open question as to whether perry alex, i ve heard the argument democrats love to run against the far right because they can beat them easily. carter thought he could beat reagan. is that your general view, do you accept that view? i don t know of the the next debate is in florida. go down there saying social security is a ponzi scheme,
from a cool-headed middle of the road type? no, there s always a turn in the campaign people start looking at electability. already? are primary voters and caucus voters impulse voters? people we hear from now are emoting and as the calendar goes on and pool of candidates expand, they are more sensible and pragmatic. smarter to run romney? romney s making this case, and i think there s an open question as to whether perry alex, i ve heard the argument democrats love to run against the far right because they can beat them easily. carter thought he could beat reagan. is that your general view, do you accept that view? i don t know of the the next debate is in florida. go down there saying social security is a ponzi scheme, you re going to have a hard time winning the message war in that one, chris. we ll see, i m betting perry.
i think romney is making this case. i don t think that there is an open question as to whether perry all my life i ve heard thing a umt that democrats love to run against the far right because they can beat them easily. carter thought he could beat reagan. is that your general view? i think the red-hot guy off then wins the general. the next debate is in florida. that s senior country. you go down there saying that social security is a ponzi scheme, you re going to have a hard time winning the message war on that one, chris. we ll see. i m petting on perry. i i ll see it again. i think people vote their gut. anyway, sasha issenberg, you may both be wrong. wait until you hear what i say when we come back opinion i think this will surprise people. you re watching hardball only on msnbc.
internet analysts are warning that the bad guys are winning. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. supporters and rivals always knew this day would come, when he kicked off his second presidential campaign. after all, he s pretty much been running since he lost back in 2008. today romney declared that he s ready to take on president obama. when barack obama came to office, we wished him well and hoped for the best. now in the third year of his fourth year term or his four-year term, we have more than slogans and promises to judge him by. barack obama has failed america. before romney can have a shot at beating president obama, he must face his republican opponents in the lead off primary state of new hampshire. that s where romney announced and candy crowley is there. we all listened to the speech carefully. does he sound like the front-runner for the republican nomination right now? reporter: completely he sounded like the front-runner. not a mention of any
country, not a country of these people. what we see in the obama family, that s our new normal. i want to ask you one quick other question before i let you go. tom foley, very sad about his passing. wanted to just get your thoughts on him. yeah. well, there s a great example. happened to be in my book. i went to him in 1982 ready to beat reagan. he said it was time to raise revenues going too far with cutting taxes and spending in 1981 and came back and said can we cut a deal on raising revenues? my way of writing the speech for tom. he said, will he be tough enough? i went to foley. rae again s wrong on everything but this time he s right. foley said to me, why don t we just say this time he s right instead of whacking him hard before agreeing with him and foley went on national television and wowed the country not saying he s an s.o.b. and this time he s happen to be