that mitt romney s greatest strength/biggest weakness is that in every single national republican primary poll that i ve seen he s somewhere between 18 and 25. he almost never goes above 25. you don t win in a one-on-one or maybe 13 a three-person race with 25% of the vote. that s always been his problem. go ahead. here s the math. i m loving the math. we re really getting logical here. if he can t get above 25, you throw a big chunk of cain s vote over to gingrich, he starts going into the mid-30s, susan. he s way ahead. he starts getting a lap on romney. right. although, remember, if cain withdraws entirely, some of those voters will go to romney. some of those voters might go to ron paul, kind of liking an iconoclast. we just think the lion s share will go to gingrich. look what happens, though. gingrich starts with a base of low 20s. you throw 10 on top of that, it s mid-30s. he s already ahead of what romney s been able to do. this has been romney s nightmare scenario, tha
nail iran for exactly what s it s doing at this moment. we know what it was doing up until 2003. will they ever say, we have a nuclear weapon and have it ready to shoot? the big issue is do they develop a capacity like the japan model and not actually build a weapon? that s a compromise, isn t it? that s a compromise and the type of thing that gives them the sense of security or power in the region but would make it much more difficult to attack because they want to test a weapon if they actually when we pull out of iraq, bob, interestingly, the president and vice president visiting in iraq today. once we pull out of iraq, they control their airspace completely. if the iraqi government decides to not give israeli planes the right to fly over there and attack iran, to go after the missile sites, how do they do it? they go through saudi arabia. it s clear at this point the saudis the saudis are terrified where iran s going.
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western conference, there s a lot of people over there who are trying to get that vote. i would put newt you have newt in the eastern conference, i would put him kind of in between. i think he s trying to get that social conservative tea party vote, too, though he is clearly a member of the establishment. he s the momentum guy at the moment. he s the next guy in line after donald trump, michele bachmann, and herman cain, the kind of anti-romney conservative. i think to the extent that there s a momentum candidate, conservatives are looking for someone who isn t named romney, who can win the nomination and be credible against barack obama, that s probably newt gingrich. i want to point out, chris. but there was a pew poll conducted last week. people who named herman cain as their first choice, their second choice split between romney and gingrich. it s not as simple as gingrich gets all of the herman cain supporters. i think they will probably go a lot of different places. but i think
that image. that s why they also keep saying, send us somebody to love. they want somebody who s got that core conviction, who cannot only take on the president, but present that image of a very strong republican candidate without a lot of extraneous baggage, without scandals popping up every five minutes, without reports that he s not really get with the program. and gingrich oddly enough doesn t really fit that bill, even though he s the front-runner right now, taking his turn as the not-mitt, gingrich does not really fit that bill. because you know so much, ron. you know too much! yes! but everybody knows this but people will find out. but in this instance, image matters. and what you have in newt gingrich is somebody who will make a bold statement and say something that is complete he ll go on the attack too. and the next week, he ll come out and say something completely different, of course. but they want an attack guy. anyway, thank you, joe williams. thank you,