they are very successfully making santorum look like the washington guy that played with the liberals. they have been told you should be more angry at this guy than me and they flood that so the anger is just guided another way, only because of money. no matter how much you would question him or chris would question him he would not attack citizens united because that is who is winning the race for mitt romney outspending everyone he can tell you i know you re mad you should be mad at santorum because he s in bed with the guys you re angry at which may or may not be true b if you hear it enough and he can t rebut it because he doesn t have the money the anger is misplaced. the romney super pac hit santorum on raising the debt ceiling. that is tea party anger stuff. ear marks, and so you can see with that kind of money he could drive some anger, angry voters
help a candidacy like romney s if he comes out on top. it will show his strength. but it can also destroy. i watched ted kennedy and carter destroy each other. it works. if you want to destroy the other guy, you can. i think it s partly based on whether there s a true, genuine difference that they are arguing about. correct me if i m wrong. i think this is the dawn of my covering stuff. teddy kennedy versus carter. the differences weren t really fundamentally that great. it was a personal thing. and it turned into a personal thing about the kennedy legacy and all that and it struck people as personal and vindictive. this is somewhat similar. i don t care about mitt in the old days. mitt has gotten with the program. he knows where he has to be politically. it s newt s position to call him a liar about that. they are questioning each other s veracity because that s what they are arguing about.
embarrassing gabs. so the embarrassing time. he pretended someone grabbed him from behind, that was pure mitt. when it was the kardashians or a reference to big foot or to lucille ball, that was the staff thinking up that stuff, is that what you re saying? yeah. i was standing next to him when he did that thing with the waitress up there in new hampshire and that was very genuine and sort of painfully awkward, so you could see that. certainly, kim kardashian is not something that is part of the mitt romney lexicon. we can assume that stuart stevens or somebody whispered that line to him and, you know, he delivered it reasonably well, even if it was predictable. let me go to erin. you covered this guy, you were embedded with him for i guess the last campaign. how does it get to most candidates have script writers, he has a really good one. stu stevens wrote malaria dreams, my wife loved that book about africa, he s real wit. i don t think of romney as a real wit.
stuff against the other you ve seen. thank you john and howard. i m allowed to say nice things. coming up, how some reports have mitt romney outspending newt gingrich four to one in tv ads. and almost all of it is negative ads. something like seven out is of ten are negative. if you live in florida, you probably don t think much of newt gingrich based on what you have seen on tv. you can t escape it. you re watching hardball on msnbc. [ male announcer ] wouldn t it be cool if you took the top down on a crossover? if there were buttons for this? wouldn t it be cool if your car could handle the kids. .and the nurburgring? or what if you built a car in tennessee that could change the world? yeah, that would be cool. nissan. innovation for today.
it is by my standards. it s hawkish. let me go with a couple points with you. if your candidate has something to sell, why doesn t he sell it? why does he use the money he s got, something like $16 million, to level the opponent? kellyann has a decent point. what s wrong with asking, where s your beef? what do you have to sell? all you can do is trash newt gingrich. where s your candidate s processes. i have been getting the ads and watching the ads. the mail pieces. i will tell you i m in a tv spot for governor romney. it s a positive spot. i m proud to do so. the reality is that you have positive ads and you have contrast pieces, which i think are fair. here are the statistics. of all the ads being run in florida that we ve been watching, 68% are anti-gingrich.