we just reported that. he s ahead of the guy who has everything, including those jeans he s wearing now, rather uncomfortably. what s going on? hasbeen beating romney. i think i agree with you. i don t think he s a hasbeen. i think he s a comeback kid story. he got wiped out in pennsylvania in the 06 elections, as did a lot of republicans. but he s always been a fighter for the social issues that are important to people in our party. he s been a strong spokesman. and like i said all along, he s been the happy warrior. a lot of people are attracted to somebody who knows who he is, what he believes, and not afraid to talk about it. let s talk about that right-wing sweet spot he keeps on hitting. last night on fox, rick santorum brought up the reverend wright again, that old story when discussing president obama s faith. let s listen. he went to reverend wright s church for 20 years. you can question what kind of theology reverend wright has. it s a christian church.
of their attack against the obama presidency on the economy. this is a guy who doesn t know how to make the economy work, the famous mitt romney line he s never signed the front of a check, only the back of one. if the economy gets better it s tough. i would say gas prices, because it s so personal, chris. the issues i think hit home and are persuadable, when you fill up, i filled up it was $52. that is 8, 10, more dollars than normal. that is a potential problem because it s very personal. this side of $5 for regular, this side of $5 for regular can he get beaten on gas prices alone, jonathan? look, if you re seeing gas prices up to about five buck as gallon, the stock market being at 13,000, unemployment rate falling those things matter but if folks are feeling it in their pocketbook once every couple days, spending $60, $70, it will be tough.
islamists world? it s sinister what he did there. he s saying that the muslim world calls barack obama its own. then by saying that the muslim world is slaughtering christians around the world due to president obama s inaction, he s trying to say that president obama is in some way implicated in a direct way in the slaughter of christians around the world. talk about a dog whistle. that s a horse whistle. that s on top of the mountain top and screaming out as directly as you can. it s mendacious and pernicious. it s not based on any evidence. i think it s also dangerous and obviously wrong. here s another shot across the bow against another candidate for president. alex, you asked graham about mitt romney s faith. let s watch this response. what about mitt romney? i like him.
house of representatives and get yourself re-elected in a bad economy. there was bad for all of the elected officials. they may find out that that s still the case. i mean, no, and we ll see next year. but i think they seem to be betting that they can do this, that they can get away with this and if the numbers are bad enough, you know as you know, next year they have an imbalance in their favor in the number of seat the that are up. more democratic seats are up. more democrats have retired. so they re just betting, hey, if we keep things bad, it will be good for us. and bad for him. now, there s a the polling for the president isn t great. his favorability stuff isn t good. but the place where it gets strong for him is when you go into one-on-one matchups with republican candidates. the president beats mitt romney 46% to 44%. the president beats herman cain 49% to 38%. as of today. the president beats rick perry best of all 51% to 39%. at the same time, you have other polls co
generic republican candidate without a name, the president can lose in some of these polls to the republican without a name. as soon as you put a name on the republican, the president wins. yes, well, quite clearly the republicans, let alone the rest of the country, doesn t want to eat the dog food, right? they re not interested in any of what they see, with the possible of exception of romney. the number you cited there, a two-point lead. it s margin of error. he has a shot. there s no question. he s the most dangerous candidate for the president. but as for the others, i mean, they re sort of entertainment candidates. the white house is rooting for the others. they would like to go against that. they were hoping chris christie might go, too, just to see sthem tethem tear each othe. i think, you know, the president has an argument to be made on his behalf. i which i could see him go out and do it more. the clips you showed, great. i am happy when that guy shows up. he needs to s