that newt gingrich shows up at the debates, the better he does. absolutely, meanwhile, somebody who is going to take a contrary view to that is governor rick perry. apparently, according to his communications director, you know he hasn t done so well at some of the debates and so while he will do the next one in michigan, he is probably going to skip a number of the next what are there about 300 left? he s going to skip a bunch of them probably to prepare for the early state. i think it s pretty bold. remember, you had a situation where governor huntsman missed the last debate. nobody is making a big deal about that. he wasn t in the top 10. governor perry knows he struggles in these debates and knows he had a 15 point lead before the debate started. that is a big risk. because some people are going to ask this question if you can t debate the other republican candidates, how are you going to go up against president obama? that s going to be the big question that i think a
and good news for mitt romney s lawn care guys. if rick perry is not going to be there, they can hire their lawn care guys back. is it a good strategy for governor perry to not do all the debates. that question as well in the meantime, paul ryan has been criticizing president obama. he says he does it with hesitation because he actually he wanted to believe that the president was being earnest when he said hope and change when he was running for president three years ago. well, now he says that he believes the president is really more in favor of sort of this class warfare logic. listen to what he had to say about it. got their plan which is let s have dirtier air, dirtier water, less people with health insurance. all right. so so far at least, i feel better about my plan. that was paul ryan yesterday
basis. let s look at the poll. latest fox news poll has herman cain on top now. the surprise there newt gingrich 12% over rick perry at 10%. what does rick perry need to do get ahead of herman cain now? you can t there will be another poll in a week, two weeks. you have to look at the long view and not get caught up in the short term polls. if you were advising mitt romney do what we re doing. be consistent, be strong. he s first or second in every poll. this is about beating president obama. it s not about tomorrow s poll. it s not about the ohio story today. it s not about this particular side issue. don t get sidetracked. be disciplined. you know, be the presidential candidate. be strong. be the ceo. not necessarily the ceo. be the manager the country is looking for. would you advise mitt romney to stay in all the debates? this morning, we re reporting that rick perry is going to step out of some of them. i like rick. he s been a friend, obviously.
tomorrow, one day closer to the white house. i really believe that herman cain will put united back in the united states of america and if i didn t believe that, i wouldn t be here. we ve run a campaign like nobody has ever seen but then america has never seen a campaign basically, he said i want mark block to be mark block so therefore, he s a smoker. so that s what he s like. yeah. he says that he doesn t you know, he wishes that he would quit smoking but i think the analogy here is that herman cain is kind of a guy who people like because of who he is. and so he s trying to make that analogy with his staffer who is just like he is in showing people that he s not going to hide the fact that he smokes. herman cain himself was on the sean hannity show. he was his first guest last night for two segments and here is mr. cain explaining that smoking chief of staff. we have a saying in my campaign, sean, let herman be herman. this is the attitude that i have when i do debates
quadrupled his ratings as well. spell that and say that four times. this is big news for newt gingrich but he s said all along the more that people get to know him in these debates, the more he will rise in the polls. when he was asked yesterday what do you make of this? he said i expect to be the nominee. so will he continue to go up in the polls? rick perry in that poll fourth place now behind newt gingrich. right. and i ll tell you what, one thing about herman cain, he predicted it last night with sean hannity and it happened today, there s an excoriating article by ex-staffers used as quotes that herman cain s camp is in disarray, they re disorganized, they have no infrastructure still in iowa. six people hired and 44 in new hampshire. and he showed no interest in doing the retail politics, only in selling his book. so this is something he predicted, perhaps? they talk about he s not showing up, forgetting to show up at a fundraiser where he was going to get $2,500 from everybody