to handle. it helps her, but also hurts her. it protects the rest of the field. right now everybody wants to say what is the latest bad thing about perry or romney or bachmann? if palin gets if the race she like a lightning rod. she will get all the flak. and these other folks can advance relatively, unmolested. greta: is it fair to say she is unpredictable? we apply conventional wisdom when we make analysis of her, with her we just don t know. i think s true. we certainly don t know about her intentions. you are closer to her than almost anyone else. greta: i don t know. dick i have no idea. i ve asked her every time she has been on the air, i have no clue. you are one of the only journalists who is always fair to her that gives you an inside track, because nobody else is. but, my basic point about her is that i think that had
she better win in eye to be able to survive past south carolina. greta: governor romney, he s now got the new business guy he has to compete with governor perry who just joined the racism now he has to worry about romney trying to steal his business votes i mean perry has the business about all the job growth in the state of texas and he s also hammering governor romney about massachusetts health care. how does he make what is his path to victory? what romney has to do is inject a new idea into this race. which is to say, what do you want? a governor who presided over the creation of jobs in his state or a businessman who actually got his hands dirty and knows how to create jobs? merely having a president where it happened on his watch, or a governor where it happened on his watch, general policies encouraged it is not enough. you need to understand the specifics of business.
wicked storm comes through. we switch gears to the road to 2012. it is really tricky to figure out the right strategy. a candidate s strategy is dependent on polls, money, place of birth, prior jobs, gaffes and even spouses. everything is in the mix. right now 12 republicans in the race. joining us dick morris former adviser to president clinton. i wanted to talk to you. tell me the different strategy for the different candidates. let s start with governor perry. what is his path to victory to get that nomination? first of all it feels weird to be talking politics with this disaster unfolding. i hope the viewers forgive us. rick perry is fighting a two-front war. on the one hand he s opposing bachmann for votes of the evangelical religious right. on the other hand he s fighting romney for the votes of the club for growth economic conservative job
wicked storm comes through. we switch gears to the road to 2012. it is really tricky to figure out the right strategy. a candidate s strategy is dependent on polls, money, place of birth, prior jobs, gaffes and even spouses. everything is in the mix. right now 12 republicans in the race. joining us dick morris former adviser to president clinton. i wanted to talk to you. tell me the different strategy for the different candidates. let s start with governor perry. what is his path to victory to get that nomination? first of all it feels weird to be talking politics with this disaster unfolding. i hope the viewers forgive us. rick perry is fighting a two-front war. on the one hand he s opposing bachmann for votes of the evangelical religious right. on the other hand he s fighting romney for the votes of the club for growth economic conservative job creating people.
those are very different constituencies. they overlap in their ideas. but as main voters they are different. what perry has got to do make inroads into bachmann s al conservative vote. not easy against a woman. and to make inroads into romney s fiscal conservative vote. his big test is he has gained enormously after announcing. probably artificially. when people actually see him performing for an hour and a half or two hours, three times during the month of september, they might have second thoughts about him and what he has to guard against is a drop that would deflate his momentum and have people feel that he s a has been. greta: now representative bachmann who who won the straw poll in iowa. she has to worry about governor perry trying to steal her religious vote. someone new to the race going to try to rip-off those votes.