fights newt gingrich, a titan, not herman cain, a businessman, not michele bachmann. if he fights and beats newt, he could emerge newt s out there saying and i doubt he actually, you know, sticks to his word on this, he s saying he s not going to go after romney, not going to dredge up all that stuff. i was fascinated, the wisdom of the crowds now has romney at less than 50% odds. i would still take the bet with romney, but it is possible. you know, i have said all along rick perry was not going to win. said it from the beginning, sarah palin would not be president. would not win the nomination. michele bachmann, rick perry, and i ve got to say right now i m not saying that about newt gingrich after the past two days. i think one of the things that underscores your point about 93, 94 versus 2011 2012 is a very different republican party.
chris christie, is he going to put his little daughter through it, his kids someone says to me, would you like to be in government? oh, yeah, under one condition, i keep my column at new york times. i pity anyone who doesn t have a column twice a week in the new york times to defend themselves. i m going nowhere without my six shooters. herman cain s got issues, problems, what not, be uh the guy feels like he s been turned inside out, ripped apart, you know, and i m not trying to defend his behavior. no, we understand. you can t look at that without just sort of saying, oh, my god what that must feel like. that s what was said about sarah palin, again. imagine having five kids and imagine having somebody move next door to you, specifically to spy on you 24 hours a day. you want to talk about a tipping point, that s a tipping point. that is. and i would say that some people s goals for getting in
base, it had nothing to do with ideology, that was the point. it was a very different party. joe said michael steele was stunningly superficial. could you not please. so mika, you also missed something else while you were in the south of france. look at these polls. i want to ask you and thomas friedman who hasn t had a chance to comment on this. look how volatile the republican party has been over the past several months. look at these polls guys. do we have the let s first off we re going to look at a new nbc wall street journal poll. this was in october. herman cain ahead, and a lot of people suggesting he might be the candidate to take down mitt romney. a few months earlier in august, it was rick perry, a guy that everybody s laughing at now had 38%. again, and a lot of people are saying he was the one that was going to win the nomination. a couple months before that in july, michele bachmann, remember
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are for that attention. so it really depends. and you look at the books being sold along the campaign trail, and people have ulterior motivesmemotive motives. back to the current batch, erick erickson, again, who is more conservative? now i ve decided this person s more conservative. i don t understand this. i don t understand why the base doesn t know already. and after you answered that question, i ve got your answer as to exactly how consistent newt is because he s been consistently arrogant and there s the latest on that. but first, why? by the way, you aren t being negative about erick erickson, were you? no, he laid out the facts about huntsman. but i don t understand why this needs to be laid out. why people don t see newt gingrich for the candidate he is, or don t see herman cain for the candidate who he is or potentially was or rick perry? i think part of it is what