going to be romney s problem. out there in the clear with one true blue conservative candidate he s got problems. yeah. i mean this is going to be a challenge for him and i think you re right. it is a little bit like the food fight and we haven t figured out who is blue toe, the john belushi character. i know he gets out unscathed. who knows? this is an ebb and flow thing. primaries are never pretty. rick santorum has all the momentum right now going into a lot of delegate-rich states over the next two weeks. i think there s something like 400 or 530 some odd delegates between now and after super tuesday and a lot of proportional states in there and a lot of states that look good for santorum except maybe virginia. i m pretty sure romney will win virginia, but romney has to make this stand. i think you re right in one of his home states which is michigan. if michigan goes down if santorum wins michigan he probably won t have a great super tuesday. let me go to my friend joan on thi
sprung a leak. are they a governing party or a permanent protest party? that s our question tonight. finally, let me finish with a word about a friend of this show and a colleague of mine for years. pat buchanan. we begin with the fight over birth control and how republican men may be reaching for trouble. especially woman trouble. michael steele was chairman of the republican party and joan walsh is editor of salon. both are msnbc political analysts. i see the smile on my colleague s face. although she s wearing green a month ahead of time, which is appropriate for my friend joan, here s your chance. speak loudly and clearly about what the republicans are doing to the potential of getting even a little bit of women s support in the next election. they are decimating their chances. this has been one of the best things they could do for president obama. you know, the democrats lost certain groups of women in 2010,
true blue conservative candidate he s got problems. yeah. i mean this is going to be a challenge for him and i think you re right. it is a little bit like the food fight and we haven t figured out who is blue toe shall t, the jo belushi character. i know he gets out unscathed. who knows? this is an ebb and flow thing. primaries are never pretty. rick santorum has all the momentum right now going into a lot of delegate rich states over the next two weeks. i think there s something like 400 or 530 some odd delegates between now and after super tuesday and a lot of proportional states in there and a lot of states that look good for santorum except maybe virginia. i m pretty sure romney will win virginia but romney has to make this stand. i think you re right in one of his home states which is michigan. if michigan goes down if santorum wins michigan he probably won t have a great super tuesday. let me go to my friend joan on this. looking across the aisle, across the middle politicall