guess is he liked it a lot better in his kennel than he would have in the car. i should have written david a note, he doesn t need tothis. just because stupid is breaking out all over america, he doesn t have to get in the party? david axelrod, the president s senior campaign strategist tweeted this photo of president obama with his dog, bo, inside the car, whoa, inside the car. axelrod s caption says how loving owners transport their dogs. come on! i think it s kind of cute. talking about politico and strippers, hey, the headline in this morning s miami herald is quote newt looks like goner in florida, but by how much? and the florida times union says it s florida s turn to pick a republican. the paper points out that more than 600,000 republicans have already cast ballots through early and absentee voting. that s a look at the papers.
and he s even said, this is a starting point. but let s talk about medicare. we got to talk about saving this program, but the two republican front-runners, one of them is engaging in mediscare in northern florida. and the second one called paul ryan s medicare plan, radical right-wing engineering. social engineering. and i ve got to say, as i said earlier, as a conservative, is this all we have? no, there s more. really? i have another profile in courage for you. really? yes. did newt come out and say i m wrong about paul ryan and this is what we have to do to save entitlement programs for the seniors of america? zh no, he s saving that. he was working on florida yesterday. so in a nod to florida s large jewish community, newt gingrich hammered mitt romney. is this about maybe moving the embassy to jerusalem? or saying no to the the right to return? i mean is that, what are we
you can remember? where 92% of the ads, i believe are romney and gingrich tearing each other up. i think it feels more negative for two reasons. i think one is, there is a saturation factor on television in a way we haven t seen in previous primaries. part of that there s just more money on the air. the super pacs have allowed, they ve expanded the budget. i m shocked we re looking at a $30 million ten-day campaign in the state of florida. on television. $30 million. $30 million. and mika, so $30 million, 92% of the ads are negative. 30-second ads. that explains why this feels like such a negative, dirty campaign. a lot of the ads, peter alexander, tap into some of the crises that we face in this country. the housing market and some of the things that you can tie the candidates to. like newt gingrich and his money that he was receiving while the housing crisis was getting under way. having said that, is it also
just have courage, step forward with it. americans will follow, they are hungry for leadership. and yet, we have mitt romney demagoguing medicare. that s one of our conservative choices. sounding like bill clinton in 95 and 96. and then on the other side, we have newt gingrich, who attacked paul ryan for having the courage to bring up medicare. it s just after south carolina, mitt romney s got to win florida, right? so how does he go about winning florida? well, it s all about tearing down newt gingrich. and not at all about any sort of positive vision of a better future that he can, that he can talk to floridians about. it s about you know, you should hate newt gingrich. and by the way, america the beautiful. that s exactly. i don t mind necessarily a good fight if there are real issues to fight over. but i also want to hear what
largest legislative landslide nationwide, we re left with these two candidates as front-runners? we ve lost the power of that message. where are the conservatives out there? it s the american voter that loses out. that s why the establishment always wins. the establishment was in 2010, that s why this is such a precarious moment for the party because it lost that energy. we re just getting started from jerry s famous deli on miami beach. stay with us, because coming up, we ll bring in dnc chair, debbie wasserman-schultz, verne buchanan, hardball s chris matthews and in a few minutes, jose diaz-ballard. and the political playbook. let s go to bill karins right now for a check on the forecast. bill? what a beautiful day you had there yesterday and it s going to continue today in florida.