doesn t face any of these punitive things that might happen? my understand is the release she signed was with the restaurant association. they would have to consent to that. a poll out today shows herman cain with a lead. at the very end of that poll covered the time after this all came o if he tanks as a result of this, karen, which candidate gets his 30% or 20%? it won t be romney. he has not moved out of the 20s and i don t think anyone likes him. it won t be perry if he keeps doing the drunken master impersonation. this is a tough thing. i don t think herman cain is going to tank. i think it helps him with his base. his ratings are going to go down and it s only going to benefit romney. romney s been slow and steady. he s stayed in the mid-20s. it will absolutely benefit him. might get him over 30. but if herman cain goes down and
heard of neo conservatism and a three-digit number for domestic policy. by contrast, jon huntsman, governor, ambassador, the man who in a normal political environment would be the most qualified and formidable candidate in the race wasn t even on stage. a system that rejects jon huntsman in favor of herman cain isn t a process. well, he wasn t on stage because he chose not to be he chose not to be. but michael steele, jon huntsman is the most qualified to be president of the united states. and for whatever reason, he s not up there. and that s fine. that s up to the republican voters to decide. unfortunately, when you match him next to the number of unqualified candidates that have been in the lead over the past year, it raises significant questions about this primary process. well, it does. and it goes back to the point we
said about herman cain s indefensible statement before the show. for any kand date to say that they would release the prisoners at guantanamo in exchange for a hostage would be absolutely contrary to the historical nature of the united states and what we do in our policy. that s naive. we cannot do that. the united states has done well because we have an absolute policy. we don t negotiate. i said that i believe in the philosophy of we don t negotiate with terrorists. i didn t say i would never agree to letting hostages in guantanamo bay go. no, that wasn t the intent at all. so afterward, anderson cooper asked him about whether he meant it or not. and he said, oh, i misspoke, i misspoke. but the problem is, he was asked a question beforehand. yeah. and it just shows, michael
under his plan. i love you, brother, but let me tell you something, go to new hampshire where they don t have a sales tax and you re fixing to give them one. they re not interested in 9-9-9. the state tax is an apple. we are replacing the current tax code with oranges. so it s not correct to mix apples and oranges. herman, are you saying that the state sales tax will also go away? no, that s an apple. we re replacing a bunch of oranges. and i m going to be getting a bushel basket with apples and oranges in it because i m going to pay both taxes and people in nevada don t want to pay both taxes. you said that mr. cain s plan would be a harder sell than he let on. how so? well, you just watched it. that s a great comment from newt. also, i thought mitt romney s point that he was now going to have a basket of apples and oranges, taxes, state i thought that was a great point. the only thing i m wondering,
he nailed he completely mitt romney completely debone d herman cain s 9-9-9, made him look like an idiot. and no doubt, he got newt. finally admitting, yes, i did support an individual mandate. he was incredible. he was really good. i won t call it incredible, but he showed focus. i wouldn t call it fabulous either. it was all right. sam stein along with michael steele in washington. and joining the table, editor in chief of newsweek magazine and the daily beast, tina brown. why was it not fabulous, joe? i think it showed competency. and most of the people on that stage are not confident debaters. i thought he did very well. michael steele, let me ask you as former republican chairman, do you agree that mitt romney had a great night? first of all taking down cain s