close between rick santorum and newt gingrich. it was very, very close, but some people at the forum, at this meeting in texas saying, it s being portrayed in the meeting as majority. everyone is for rick santorum. dave: exactly. and here is what tony perkins says about all of this. one of the leaders of this group. quote, from the outset, the stated goal of the meeting was to attempt to arrive at consensus. or a clear majority of support for a single conservative candidate. and that goal was achieved, while a super majority of those attending the meeting stated support for rick santorum as their preference in the republican primary and was made clear the conservative leaders could coalesce around any of the three presidential candidates who had strong representation at the meeting. gingrich, perry, santorum. and perry was the one that failed to get off the first ballot, but you wonder, it still sounds like they re fractured, doesn t it, guys? will it matter right now for
morning. stephen cobelbert is exploring possible run for the office. i am proud to announce that i am forming an exploratory committee to lay the groundwork for my possible candidacy for the president of united states of south carolina. finally, i m feeling excited about this. race, we get to weigh in and what it all means for the republicans and that, of course, hear about this? the conductor of the philharmonic, cell phone rings in the middle of a performance and you know what he did? he stops the orchestra. i am cheering for him. we agree with this. i love this man. we re going to talk about that and much, much more as we begin qu starting point right now. okay back. we are back once again inside the tick took diner as ashleigh and zoraida told you about. they were stosz tossing to me. making our tour through diners. i m going to need to run through the gym after this segment. today start with the oatmeal. i m having oatmeal. will is having oatmeal. you re having egg
social issues, it would alienate too many good point. i think romney has an opportunity. if people are worried about people who didn t want to get into it before but could be open to it. it could be bad news for michele bachmann if you assume that bachmann does better than tim pawlenty. our colleagues are assuming. the assumption. bachmann to the right of mitt romney on social issues could be hurt by the entry of rick perry who has evangelical support. the two biggest points are will perry perform as a fundraiser and campaigner the way people say he will, and second, can anyone keep it from becoming a two-person race? bachmann is best positioned in ways because she s got the most strength in iowa and south carolina now. but so much of her support is overlapped with perry. if he s strong, he may take people away, talking to voters out there anecdotally. at the bachmann tent, a lot of voters said i don t know much about rick perry but he has
religion which is around common symbols but to reinforce the alienation to say some people are righter than others, and have a clearer voice and vision. i m an ordained minister for more than 30 years, but look, he is from texas. a guy named jesus called him. he might have thought it was jesus and we can excuse him for feeling he was called by jesus to come to the race. matt, he invited all of the conservatives, he didn t invite me and i m a conservative. i m trying to conserve roe versus wade, i m trying to conserve a lot of things. but i wasn t invited. but is the gop kind of skeptical about this? are they upset? is the establishment concerned about perry entering this race? i don t think so. i think rick perry may be the best candidate do winter nomination. if you go down the check list for all the things you need, tea party support, evangelical
i think rick perry may be the best candidate do winter nomination. if you go down the check list for all the things you need, tea party support, evangelical support, but also main stream support. and again, he is a governor, americans like to elect governors president. like michele bachmann for example, is a member of the house. herman cain has never been elected. so you know, rick perry really is sort of the whole package that republicans really might get behind. i think he will get in the race. if he gets in, i think he ll be for real. you might be surprised but rudy giuliani said something that i agree with. even a broke clock is right twice a day. he said that republicans should get out of people s bedrooms. how do you think this plays with rick perry and the prayer