i thought it was funny he had five or six attacks he wants to make and he put them out there at the beginning, got it over with and moved on. like check the box, okay done. efficient. it s so much like the rest of his campaign. lacking in passion and personality and yet he does it. newt, we ve heard is complaining because the crowd was not raccus enough. do you think he has a point not having the crowd baying against moderator, he likes that? he does. there s nothing neutral about neutrality. you can set the rules in advance. i don t think there s any evidence that any of these rules were made to hurt newt. they do hurt newt and they hurt any candidate who wants to play heavily off the audience. we know barack obama and his
conservatives who are lukewarm to vote for him to be up there in a defensive crowd and be unable to release taxes and defend his wealth sends a subtext message, and maybe he can t be obama, and that s kryptonite for obama. and romney has to make the race back and tweak his message and do full offense on gingrich. there are no firewalls in primaries. tax releases, does that help now? put it to rest? well, yeah, i say made a suit made out of your tax returns and defends it and make your argument because that s what people need to see to win. they have to go into florida hard and they have to hurt newt. it s a message thing. let s talk about message, katty kay, because joe has been talking about this all week long, and it s the politics of
unable to release taxes and defend his wealth sends a subtext message, and maybe he can t be obama, and that s kryptonite for obama. and romney has to make the race back and tweak his message and do full offense on gingrich. there are no firewalls in primaries. tax releases, does that help now? put it to rest? well, yeah, i say made a suit made out of your tax returns and defends it and make your argument because that s what people need to see to win. they have to go into florida hard and they have to hurt newt. it s a message thing. let s talk about message, katty kay, because joe has been talking about this all week long, and it s the politics of grievan grievance. listen to newt gingrich last
the last five days, he lost his message and for a guy like romney who has done well getting conservatives who are lukewarm to vote for him to be up there in a defensive crowd and be unable to release taxes and defend his wealth sends a subtext message, and maybe he can t be obama, and that s kryptonite for obama. and romney has to make the race back and tweak his message and do full offense on gingrich. there are no firewalls in primaries. tax releases, does that help now? put it to rest? well, yeah, i say made a suit made out of your tax returns and defends it and make your argument because that s what people need to see to win. they have to go into florida hard and they have to hurt newt. it s a message thing.
leads newt gingrich by a very small margin. rick santorum is in third place. ron paul in fourth. and your candidate, mr. perry, doesn t show here. eric: can i clarify that? i always liked rick perry. i still like him. but i think you really have to figure around a way about what he is doing with the gingrich attack. this is going to kill him and it will hurt newt, too. bob: dana, assume of all the states mitt romney has to worry about, south carolina has a lot of problems for him. not the least of which, the religious component, evangelicals he lost in large number in iowa and new hampshire. a lot in south carolina. what happens if he loses south carolina? dana: well, one of those things where you probably don t answer a hypothetical, right? but if he loses in south carolina, the next week he wins in florida. so i guess in i guess i would have to ask you in terms of the number of delegate as you hit going toward the