happens going forward. it s impossible to say whether he ll have to get out of the race. this is a totally new world in terms of where the money comes from and how it gets allocated. but look. what we re seeing is it s a lot of regional candidates. if you looked at the map last night santorum was very strong through the mid dle of the country. romney was stronger in hate to say it moderate places but romney has won other places in the south if you count florida as not southern. three candidates represent three regions of the country and slightly different ideologies and we ll see how it goes. it is great theater for us on the president s team and the long ter goes on t longer it goes on the better. do you think they re being blown in the ear or whispered in the ear or whatever by saying, look, keep this guy gingrich in the race? that is the interesting thing about these super pacs. alison as smart guy. really smart. i met him once.
back to hardball. now for the side show. making time for the colony in space. even in the midst of super tuesday that s right. newt gingrich found room for a visit to the u.s. space and rocket center in alabama. of course there have been a lot of jokes about newt s promise of an american colony on the moon if he is elected president. remember the snl sketch that made gingrich the president of a colony far, far away. then there was this zinger from romney in a recent debate. if i had a business executive come to me and say they wanted to spend a few hundred billion dollars to put a colony on the moon i d say, you re fired. wow. well newt hasn t forgotten romney s jab. or that shot from snl. here he is yesterday at the u.s. space and rocket center. this isn t the end state of the space program. this is the launching pad for the next phase of excitement. governor romney said well if he had been in business and somebody came in with a big idea, that kind of idea he d
have fired them. i realize that he has said he likes firing people. i want to restate far from backing off i invite saturday night live to come here to huntsville to tape one of their skits. if you re taping it at the space camp. there is commander gingrich. back to the future. next up yesterday may have been an important day for republicans but president obama is getting his own jump-start on the battleground states and spoke today in north carolina and didn t pass up an opportunity to ding his potential opponents at a manufacturing plant. let s listen. since i took office, america s dependence on foreign oil has gone down every single year. you wouldn t know it from listening to some of these folks out here. some of these folks. next time you hear some politician trotting out some three-point plan for $2 gas, you let them know, we know better.
soviet empire than trying to protect freedom. president reagan is clearly failing. joe, should i go on? 1983, one more, gingrich slammed president reagan s domestic policy saying beyond the obvious social indicators of decay, the fact is president reagan has lost control of the national agenda. that is the guy gingrich has been comparing himself to on the trail to president reagan. well, and willie, you can sort through all of these quotes. you have quotes where newt gingrich while reagan was president, while he was fighting tip o neill, while he was pushing his agenda in 1983, you have newt gingrich calling reagan and reaganomics an utter failure and did it repeatedly. he also attacked his foreign policy. the man who we conservatives believe was more responsible than anybody else in liberating eastern europe was constantly being attacked by newt gingrich.
parties. i just love and admire the gingriches. i feel isolated because i m in this pac and shouldn t communicate with them. this is romney s super pac. take a look at this one. this is the ad going after your guy gingrich. newt gingrich s attacks are called foolish, out of bounds and disgusting. newt attacks because he has more baggage than the airlines. newt was fined $300,000 for ethics violations, took $1.6 million from freddie mac and co-sponsored a bill with nancy pelosi that would have given $60 million a year to a u.n. program supporting china s brutal one-child policy. don t be fooled by newt s desperate attacks. restore our future is responsible for the content of this message.