devoted and dedicated to honoring my word in that regard. you will not see me wavering on that or be a multiple choice. thank you very much. you can go back to youtube and look at what i said in 1994. i never said i was pro-choice. my position was effectively pro-choice. wow. the obama camp might just take a look at the bit of news clips. next up, pointing fingers. some confusion on tuesday night when jon huntsman became the unlikely target of a tweet from ron paul. during the iowa caucus vote, the tweet said, quote, we found your one iowa voter. he s in dug something precinct 5. you might want to call him and say thanks. there s a jab that served absolutely no purpose. later on, paul explained that the tweet was put out by a joke by his staffers. you think huntsman was amused by the pettiness of it all? he answered that one during an interview last night. you think he would have learned the perils of ghost-written subject matter by
ever heard him say anything like that. and let me be very clear about this, because this is something that s very personal to me. if, in fact, i ever heard him say anything like that, if in fact i ever thought he thought that, i would never work for him. this is ridiculous. this is absolutely ridiculous. you re in a good position, robert, to explicate him on television. i m glad you re a guest. you seem to agree that he has constitutional differences with liberals, obviously, on the right to privacy. he s more with judge bjork on that. you argue that he s not anti-gay in terms of identity. where is his disagreement with the gay community? why do they really go after him all the time? what s the issue there? because he speaks very passionately about the fact that he believes that gays and lesbians should not marry. he believes in the sanctity of marriage. he believes that marriage should be defined by one man and one woman. and that s, obviously, something that runs counter to folks
so this is an early poll, coming right out of this, jonathan. it seems to me what s going to have to happen for this to be interesting, check me on this is, romney will get 35, at least, but if he s held to the 30s, and as you say, santorum pulls into the 20s, so it s 35/25, that s a big night for santorum, right? that s probably the best-case scenario for santorum. i think mark s right. i think romney s rivals need some luck. they need romney, neither a debate or on the trail, something to happen for him, to him, rather, for him to fade. in south carolina? it can be here or in south carolina. you guys watched him as closely as i did. i was trailing him around in the parking lot out there in iowa. this guy is so careful now, first of all, he won t fall into any trap you set for him. he won t speak french, obviously, in public. you tried that. i tried that. i couldn t even get him to
taken on tuesday and wednesday shows romney leading with 41% of the vote, are ron paul well behind in second place with 18 points. santorum, gingrich, and huntsman are all way back in single digits. so this is an early poll, coming right out of this, jonathan. it seems to me what s going to have to happen for this to be interesting, check me on this is, romney will get 35, at least, but if he s held to the 30s, and as you say, santorum pulls into the 20s, so it s 35/25, that s a big night for santorum, right? that s probably the best-case scenario for santorum. i think mark s right. i think romney s rivals need some luck. they need romney, neither a debate or on the trail, something to happen for him, to him, rather, for him to fade. in south carolina? it can be here or in south carolina. you guys watched him as closely as i did. i was trailing him around in the parking lot out there in iowa. this guy is so careful now, first of all, he won t fall into any trap you set for him.
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