to actually win. true that. does that if that is the con straining factor on what we can imagine about the future of the primary does that mean we should start thinking outside the box, we should think there will be a third party person, someone joining late, mitt romney seems like a bad nominee. getting worse and worse. i find it sort of touching this vision that the republican wisemen will get together in somebody s basement or something and bring jeb bush in the race and that will save the day! there is nobody out there. and there is no way, and no. it s done. i think it s pretty done but certainly is hanging on longer than i thought it would be. who would have thought the iowa caucus, that rick santorum run the iowa caucus, that was pretty good. at this point, maybe in another two weeks, maybe mitt romney will have won the republicans don t know who won.
message. economy is bad, president obama is bad on the economy and i m mitt romney, i will be better. that is the basis for his campaign. that is what it boils down to, that s why he s running. bad economy, president obama, bad on the economy, mitt romney will be good on the economy. since then, that assertion, that justification for his campaign has been tested. mitt romney is not campaigning on the basis of his times as massachusetts governor. in fact he talks about himself as if that time never even happened in his life. you have to choose someone who is not been a life-long politician. for me, politics is not a career. for me, my career was being in business and stareding a business and making it successful. pay no attention to my times as governor and all the other times i ran for office and failed. the basis for his claim he would be better at dealing with the economy is his private sector experience, right in, his time in business. his time in business was his time at bain c
forward to florida. and we essentially have a long break as we get ready for what it s sens essentially a primary. the nature of the gingrich campaign you saw last night was an acting performance worthy of meryl streep, incredible as you re watching it. but the mellowdrama around this, how will that impact the race over the next 30 days, and i think it s an open question, but for my part, i think the notion of a gingrich nomination is totally implausible, he s 100% known by the american people, has a staggering unfavorable ratio. and can still beat mitt romney in south carolina. i m looking forward to being on the v-shaped set with you tomorrow. will be an interesting night and i think it will be a long night. i think they will be counting
neutralize it? biggest strength is money, resources, john mccain campaign in the summer of 2007, campaign collapsed. he was flying on the middle seat of southwest airlines up to new hampshire. the entire campaign for john mccain was based on we have to win new hampshire primary. patience is an under-valued strategic virtue in the campaigns. we took advantage of the fight between mike huckabee and mitt romney in iowa, mike huckabee knocked out mitt romney in high wa. that slowed his momentum in new hampshire. john mccain was able to win in new hampshire, because fred thompson stayed in the race in south carolina, we were able to close out the race. but it s a very different race in 2012. romney still has a hangover of the problems from the 2008 race. in 2008, he entered the race as the conservative candidate. tried to position himself completely as the most conservative person in the race and that gave birth, i think, to
he didn t create the recession, but he made it worse. and longer. he did not cause this recession, but he made it worse. i didn t say things were worse. that was the other problem with the launch. mitt romney kept saying it was central to his message the economy was made worse by president obama. of course the economy has not gotten worse under president obama, the economy has been thrown out of a 30 story building and was lying dead on the ground when barack obama started his presidency. the economy has since sort of pulled itself back together and started to sit up. nobody would call this a great economy, but compared how it was, it is definitely not worse. when called out on that, mitt romney weirdly denied that he ever said what he plainly had said over and over and over again. i never said it was worse. except all the times i said it was worse. i never said it was worse. the launch did not go smoothly. we knew with the flubs and messing it up that was the