hampshire staff quit last week and they have now come out with a statement calling bachmann s national campaign advisers, rude, unprofessional, dishonest and cruel at times. what do you make of this, mike? how does she recover from that? well, she doesn t. look, michele bachmann has been a political zombie now for months. the only thing they can get out of bachmann is you have the neocon nuts that have her out there talking to their fringe politics. they re funding her only for that, ed. they don t expect her to do anything in the primaries. they don t expect her to win a general election. if you put a woman like bachmann out there, she ll say anything that the money people want her to say. so all she s doing is she s a delivery system, ed. she s simply delivering the message of the far right of the anti-obama. of the anti-obama. keep her out. mike, what do you make of rick perry, does he go full birther here?
a statement calling bachmann s national campaign advisers, rude, unprofessional, dishonest and cruel at times. what do you make of this, mike? how does she recover from that? well, she doesn t. look, michele bachmann has been a political zombie now for months. the only thing they can get out of bachmann is you have the neocon nuts that have her out there talking to their fringe politics. they re funding her only for that, ed. they don t expect her to do anything in the primaries. they don t expect her to win a general election. if you put a woman like bachmann out there, she ll say anything that the money people want her to say. so all she s doing is she s a delivery system, ed. she s simply delivering the message of the far right of the anti-obama. of the anti-obama. keep her out. mike, what do you make of rick perry, does he go full birther here? is this just part of the show? you know, right now he s backing up from it.
brand-new cnn/orc poll shows cain in a dead heat with mitt romney at the top of the gop field and cain s gain is rick perry s loss. the texas governor now a distant third. if you don t believe fortunes change in a heartbeat, take a look at this. just a month ago perry was riding high and cain polled a mere 9%. want to bring in my comrade in politics, paul stein houser, the venetian hotel at casino. hey, paul, can herman cain take these numbers to the bank or should we expect, you know, a bounce-back? yeah, i wouldn t take them to the bank yet, because, joe, this race has changed so much. listen, back in the summer we saw michele bachmann jump up in the polls, then go down. we saw the same thing with rick perry. will it happen to herman cain in maybe. other polling from our brand-new cnn polls, two-thirds of republicans say they re not 100% married yet to their candidate. they may change their mind. only about 1 in 3 republicans say i m definitely sticking with the candidate
against iran, greater action grens iran, it doesn t make sense. the chinese are staying out of this. the last thing iran wants to do is push them into cooperating with the u.s. and further sanctions. it s a very change calculous. one thing missing in the debates last night, i want to shift a little because you know this stuff. you d expect the right wing candidates last night, like bachmann and people over there it s hard to tell who isn t right wing in the republican party. i don t think romney is or huntsman. they d be pushing the iran button right now. bomb the nuclear facilities in iran, for israel, do it for us. you expect the right wing bell to ring. why hasn t the bell rung yet in these debates? romney has talked about the line in the sand over iran s nuclear program which is another reason it doesn t make sense. this is the time iran is trying to avoid more sanctions because of its controversial nuclear
sense. the chinese are staying out of this. the last thing iran wants to do is push them into cooperating with the u.s. and further sanctions. it s a very change calculous. one thing missing in the debates last night, i want to shift a little because you know this stuff. you d expect the right wing candidates last night, like bachmann and people over there it s hard to tell who isn t right wing in the republican party. i don t think romney is or huntsman. they d be pushing the iran button right now. bomb the nuclear facilities in iran, for israel, do it for us. you expect the right wing bell to ring. why hasn t the bell rung yet in these debates? romney has talked about the line in the sand over iran s nuclear program which is another reason it doesn t make sense. this is the time iran is trying to avoid more sanctions because of its controversial nuclear program. it knows that iran doesn t want to be an issue in the american presidential election. so the timing of this doesn t