romney did his job making santorum seem like a washington insider and he decided and also tried to do some of his own biography but was also helped by a crowd that was clearly on his side. we were talking about this issue before of religious conscience and protections but this is the whole reason this issue is alive is because of the bill that you drafted in massachusetts, romney care, which was the model for obama care and the government takeover of health care. wait a second. but if romney struggled to sell himself and his own vision and his worst moments of the night were when he talked about his own record if you don t balance your budget in business, you go out of business. so i ve lived balancing budgets. i also serve in the olympics, balance the budget there, and served in the states and in all four years i was governor we balanced the budget. yes, governor, you balanced budget for four years. have you a constitutional
candidate turned their back, even said let detroit go bankrupt. not him. well, let s bring the panel. robert costa, malika henderson. it wasn t a direct attack on romney, went at the whole republican party. yeah, it did, but i do feel like they re getting in there, trying to make the pay in that race, get some democrats to come out and vote in that primary, maybe vote for santorum, of course. i think the democrats want santorum to stay in this thing for as long as he can. to make mitt romney spend more money and drag it out and bloody him. but i think, you know, this is in some ways he s playing that strategy. michigan, both state parties have played games in the other s presidential primaries. jesse jackson won thanks to republicans in 88, george wallace, john mccain won thanks for the democrats.
making frankly the case at all. let s talk about some of the things senator santorum is campaigning on versus what he supported. it got exposed a lot last night in the debate where santorum himself said sometimes he didn t follow his principles because politics is a team sport. factually i understand the facts the factual argument he was making but a conservative voter who is frankly upset with washington, what does that answer do to somehow convince him that santorum is going to be a change agent? well, i think it s interesting. you know, i can tell who s ahead and who s got the momentum because all three of the other candidates were targeted directly on santorum. romney s big gun of his money now on tv ads is targeted toward santorum. and it s very easy for someone who has not voted in the past such as the governor to go to cull through thousands of votes and find something somebody
congress has a role of allocating resources when they think the administration has it wrong. i defended that at the time. i m proud i defended it at the time because i think they did make mistakes. i didn t follow all of that but i can tell you this. i would put a ban on earmarks. i think it opens the door to excessive spending. while i was fighting to save the olympics you were fighting to save the bridge to nowhere. and on the auto bailout santorum tried a line of attack he has used on the trail but romney had opo at the ready. he supported the folks on wall street and bailed out wall street, was all for it, and then when it came to the auto workers and the folks in detroit, he said no. i believe in markets not just when they re convenient for me. nice try but now let s look at the facts. senator, you voted in favor of the bailout of the airline industry after 9/11. that was the right thing to do. it was an emergency. you also voted for the bailout of the steel industry. i
it and any time you cut marginal tax rates in the country going back to what, 1921, we resulted in a huge amount of economic growth. job creation the rest of it. well the bush tax cuts didn t do that. the bush tax cuts didn t do that. we got pretty good prosperity during the bush years. i don t think there is an instance where the government has cut marginal taxes across the board without trying to pick winners and losers which what is senator santorum s plan has done where we haven t had growth. do you think it s important that governor romney identify exactly how he said something about an adviser said somebody in the top 1% would see some of their tax bill go up. does he need to identify that before the election? he s actually been, i think, pretty specific about how he would how he would reduce spending for example, i mean, what he said is he s going to get additional revenue because of the tax cut, going to have