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in the past you could always kind of think, you know, that the establishment next in line candidate was going to win. yeah. john mccain, nobody liked john mccain in the republican party but he was the next in line. i think that that was kind of the dying gasp of that sort of, you know, way of going about business. mitt romney is going to have to be really good to win this. that s a good thought. clarence, where are you on this? i m leaning to bachmann because i think passion always ends up beating gee whiz, do we have to do it? well, yeah. and michele bachmann made a better than expected showing at that new hampshire debate. that s very important because expectations for her weren t that high. people remember her looking at the wrong camera during her address to the tea party folks and she did everything right and i think using that bracket analogy she has surged to the lead as far as the conservative base is concerned which actually
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john mccain in the republican party but he was the next in line. that was the dying gasp of that sort of way of going about business. mitt romney is going to have to be really good to win this. that s a good thought. clarence, where are you on this? i m leaning to bachmann because i think passion overalls ends up being sort of gee whiz, do we have to do it? and michele bachmann made a better than expected showing at that new hampshire debate. that s very important expectations for her weren t that high. people remember her looking at the wrong camera during her address to the tea party folks and she did everything right and she has surged to the lead as far as the conservative base is concerned, which i think is good news for romney because it
saying something very similar. he s saying it s the insiders versus the outsiders, the new hampshire bracket they call it. you re seeing the brackets there versus the iowa bracket, which is a culturely conservative michele bachmann wing. gentlemen, thank you. let me ask you, to start off, this whole fight, who is going to win that fight, first of all? will the pitch fork win or the country club win, joe cline? i think for the first time we really don t know who is going to win. you know, the tea party made a major run at control of the republican party in 2010 and the fact ta s that they are stronger than they have ever been before and in the past you would think that the establishment next in line was going to win. yeah. john mccain, nobody liked john mccain in the republican party but he was the next in line. that was the dying gasp of that