opponent in a less than favorable light. and the massachusetts healthcare plan, don t forget, this healthcare plan is something we learned about from the heritage foundation, a conservative think tank. even newt gingrich insisted on personal responsibility. some parts worked, some didn t, some things i changed but it was a conservative idea, not a liberal idea. i m proud of the fact we did something that worked with our state consistent with the tenth amendment. i m also proud of the fact saying i ll get rid of obamacare, i know how it s bad and how it s different than what we did and why it needs to be taken off the books of the entire nation. how do you describe yourself politically? i m conservative. if you ask me a reagan conservative. what i say is i m a conservative businessman. my background is business, i m conservative. reagan conservative, john adams conservative. i m a conservative republican.
right now we have a vote taking place in the senate. we have majority of democrats with us. democrats to watch those from the red states up for re-election next year. montana john tester and joe manchin and nebraska nelson. others who help the swing state on the ballot in 2012. claire mccaskill, bob casey, ohio brown and florida s bill nelson. add connecticut independent joe lieberman. retiring virginia democrat jim webb says he will vote to move it forward but doesn t like the plan to pay for it. i do not believe we should raise taxes on ordinary earned income. once it fails the democratic leadership will expect it to be broken up to pieces including some they would support but it s a dilemma for the president because it s harder for him to run against a do-nothing congress. we have vote totals here on fox. mike, thank you. president obama attacked the
bret: republican presidential candidate debating tonight in new hampshire. we ll have plenty of ammunition to fire at the front-runner mitt romney. new media report bolsters contentions that romney s massachusetts healthcare plan was a blueprint for president obama s national overhaul but it did not stop a g.o.p. crowd favorite giving romney his support. chief political correspondent carl cameron has that story from hanover, new hampshire. hours before the seventh republican presidential debate, front runner mitt romney announced the endorsement of chris christie who many republicans hoped would run against romney. i m here in new hampshire for one reason. america cannot survive another four years of barack obama and mitt romney is man to lead america. the first question was a texas pastor who endorsed perry last week and called the mormon faith a cult. i call for governor perry to repudiate the sentiment and remarks made by they pastor.
a moment of truth. this is a jobs bill that the economists said would grow the economy and put people back to work. in peninsula, president obama made a pitch for the american jobs act hours ahead of your vote. but republicans leaders dismissed the plan as obama s second stimulus. the legislation voting on today is many things but it s not a jobs bill. republicans will gladly vote against any legislation to make it harder to create jobs right now. supportersdy agree and suggest a political price to pay for those opposing it. if the voters think this is unfair for the majority party to say we are not going to support the president no matter what he comes up with, if they believe it s unfair make feelings known to the members of congress. although it s clear the democrats lack votes to proceed, the white house emphasized those behind it.
massachusetts. the president of the united states is raising taxes, over and over again, to pay for this plan that he still won t pay for it. what governor romney did was what he believed was responsible as the governor of massachusetts to allow people to have access to healthcare. bret: new jersey governor chris christie endorsing mitt romney today ahead of the debate in new jersey. they take a look at the poll. the newest one now, washington post, bloomberg host of tonight s debate there you see, romney 24%. cain at 16 in second. perry, paul. look at new hampshire. this is the nbc/marist poll. romney with a huge lead in this one. you can see cain and paul tied for second. look at iowa, the newest poll out there. specifically to iowa. romney and cain battling et out for one and two. congressman paul in third. back with the panel. steve, timing of this endorsement? and how big a deal is it? chris christie, mitt romney. good day for the romney campaign. chris christie is one of th