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messaging on them and then super pacs would be obsolete. the idea is that you are assisting your candidate and trying get the best guy for the republican party, i wonder if you think that the king of bain stuff that is running is not actually hurting newt gingrich. i want to play a bit of sound with gingrich and romney. sure. i said publically it out to be edited. i said publically it out to be edited. michael moore said i think that gingrich is one of the escaped members of my staff. is newt gingrich carrying michael moore s water? of course not. we have as much in common with moore as i have with barack obama. this event has not been an approach from the left, mitt romney would have you believe that somehow by holding him accountable to his job record that we are somehow attacking
you pick up the phone as soon as you re done here in two minutes. you say to newt what? what the hell are you doing, newt? you believe what i expect this from this is what saul taught barack obama and the stuff you re saying is one of the reasons we re in the trouble we re in right now. this total ignorant populist view of the economy that was proven to be incorrect with the soviet union, with chinese communism. also today, president of the chamber of commerce called the republican front-runner foolish. saying i was very disappointed with the intramural carrying on within the republican party. michael steele also scolding speaker gingrich and rick perry for their attack on romney s record at bain. it sounds as if you re attacking, you know, capitalism and the free-market system, and that s not what we re about. so to attack that to me is inconsistent with who we are and what we believe. governor perry has dialed back his rhetoric. he was calling romney a vulture
especially on jobs. governor romney enjoys firing people. i enjoy creating jobs. keeping them honest, governor huntsman stretched that one a little out of context. here s governor romney s original remark. i like being able to fire people who provide services to me. if i don t like the service, i m going to get someone else to bring service to me. that came after a long argument of the health care reform law. it wasn t about the virtues of eliminating jobs. i was talking about insurance companies. we like to be able to get rid of insurance companies that don t give us the service that we need. opponents are also pouncing on this i know what it s like to worried about whether you re going to get fired. there were a couple of times i wondered if i was going to get a pink slip. and i care very deeply about the american people. that drew from rick perry on the fratrail in south carolina. i have no doubt that mitt romney was worried about pink slips. whether he
and hey makers at mitt romney. the latest poll still shows him as the favorite but his lead over ron paul is slipping and the others have been going after him. they ve been using his own words and record against him, especially on jobs. governor romney enjoys firing people. i enjoy creating jobs. keeping it honest, governor huntsman stretched that one a little out of context. here s that original mark. i like being able to fire people that provide services to me. if someone doesn t give me the good services i need, i want to say, i will get somebody else to provide that service to me. that sentence, whether you think it s spot-on or tone deaf, came at the end of a long argument against a current health care reform law and people firing insurance companies not about long range jobs. i was talking about insurance companies. we like to get rid of insurance companies that don t give us the service we need. opponents, as you can understand, are pouncing on this. i kn