new york times today, i know this is a liberal rag of a magazine but it is still also of a newspaper. it s still all the news put to print. here we have fundamentally this kind of, this question about can this primary with romney, who ought to be a michigan kind of son of michigan, this is his last stand and he can t make this stand in this moment. sort of is this the end of a romney cam pan and the beginning of a santorum campaign? good question. the irony is that santorum is making the better blue collar argument to those auto workers. he is. recognizing the first sentence, yeah, you re going back to work. i m happy for that. now let s talk about what happens next. whereas, romney is stuck with the overhang of his rhetoric from earlier about michigan and has not figured out a way to counteract that. i mean, it s still literally feels like the 1% argument. it does.
as much as we ve been talking about the below the belt politics out of the santorum campaign, as he s walking around michigan, there s some of the religious discourse and that kind of thing going on, but there s the i m the blue collar guy and i understand ordinary people. to your point, melissa, the key thing that people don t realize, if you listen to santorum s speech, about 95% of that is about the economy. about putting the workers back to work. the social issue component makes up a small portion. that gets the bigger play. he s been making very consistently an economic blue collar argument in places like michigan, ohio and elsewhere. michael, aren t you personally responsible for the fact that rick santorum might end up being the nominee and i m not how did that happen? because as aren t the chairman, you helped to change and fundamentally shape the new rules allowing for a long gop primary. tell me, is this what you expected on the other side of that? it is exactly
vetted before the obama campaign has a chance to take him on. let s watch. i am a middle class. my dad was an army officer. i grew up in middle class background. i have middle class values. and i find powerful rich people rigging games very distasteful. you think what you ve done once the super pac is done, he s going to become less electable or viewed as less electable? i don t know. but i think the time to find out is now. the last thing republicans ought to do is nominate somebody who has not been thoroughly vetted and then stlit watching obama and axelrod destroy them. he sounds like my dad who was a cloth coat republican who voted republican almost every election but was upset during the ge price fixing scandal years ago because he thought they were manipulating and abusing the free enterprise system. newt gingrich makes a blue collar argument. it s a cloth coat republican argument. we believe in free enterprise. we don t like people who are banded.
let s watch. i am a middle class. my dad was an army officer. i grew up in middle class background. i have middle class values. and i find powerful rich people rigging games very distasteful. you think what you ve done once the super pac is done, he s going to become less electable or viewed as less electable? i don t know. but i think the time to find out is now. the last thing republicans ought to do is nominate somebody who has not been thoroughly vetted and then stlit watching obama and axelrod destroy them. he sounds like my dad who was a cloth coat republican who voted republican almost every election but was upset during the ge price fixing scandal years ago because he thought they were manipulating and abusing the free enterprise system. newt gingrich makes a blue collar argument. it s a cloth coat republican argument. we believe in free enterprise. we don t like people who are banded. so use this system to basically make a lot of money but not create any wealth for the
here he is defending his attacks on romney by saying the republican nominee must be vetted before the obama campaign has answer cla a chance to take him on. i have middle class values and i find powerful rich people rigging games very distasteful. you think what you ve done once the super pac is done, he s going to become less electable or viewed as less electable. i don t know, but the time to find out is right now. the last thing republicans ought to do is nominate somebody who has not been thoroughly vetted and then sit there watching obama and axelrod destroy them. he sounds like my dad who was a republican but was very upset during the ge price fixing scandal because he thought those guys were manipulating and abusing the capitalist freedom. newt gingrich makes a blue