i m not worried about polls in july. if be had polls in july in 15, which we did, that matters, jeb bush and scott walker were going to be the republican nominees for president. would you take the mitt romney pledge and get out after february 26th if you saw no chance of winning? look, when i didn t see any chance of winning eight years ago, after the new hampshire primary, i got out right away. i m not go people are asking us to take enough pledges. i like mitt romney, he is a friend. i don t disagree with what he said. i think that takes care of itself naturally, politically when you can t raise money anymore and you see you are not getting votes. if that happens, i have no reason to continue to stay in a race, nor do i think most other people would. what happens if he is the nominee? what do you do? i don t think he will win. i don t think he can win against president biden. he has proven he lost to
in important early states like iowa, new hampshire, south carolina and florida, he actually took a step backwards. now i think this is going to be a new part of this campaign where romney has an opportunity and it is sort of ironic way to be more energized to go on the attack and fight for the republican nomination something he hasn t had to do up to this point. we ll see how the fight goes. stephen, it will be very, very interesting. three weeks from today is iowa. marthaas more. martha: mitt romney pledge not to go negative is earning praise from newt gingrich, his chief competitor these days. here is gingrich at a town hall in new hampshire. watch this. governor romney this afternoon said something very important which i m very grateful for. in that he was being interviewed and he said that it was very important that we not weaken any of the people who might defeat barack obama and that he would rather lose than engage in outrage just attacks on one of his
campaign. martha: look at what brit hume said about this issue on special report . i want to get your reaction to. us did he really believe what he did for freddie mac is similar to what romney did at bain? probably not. when newt gingrich feels threatened or up staged he reaches for whatever weapon comes to hand, start swinging. just ask paul ryan. martha: this is what people see as newt gingrich s vulnerable point. he says he changed. i m a grandfather. i know there is lot of stuff in my past. i tried to reconcile that. the enemies he made along the way, andrea, clearly they might not succeed because people like newt but they are gunning for him. they are gunning for him and he is starting to show he is slipping. personal attacks won t matter. what will matter what brit hume called up. when he went after paul ryan and called his bill social engineering. i think that will hurt him much more. look at mitt romney, to your question why mitt romney won t embrace the free
are they going to leave us defenseless? alabama, georgia, south carolina, utah, we have many states that are under the same situation that arizona is. and i, as governor, am not going to sit still and just let it take place in arizona. martha: you have not sat still, there is no doubt about that. it s interesting because i know you were shocked initially that the department of justice came off you with this. before the law was even implemented, before anything actually happened that would have allowed for police officers and law enforcement officials once person has been pulled over, detained for another offense to ask them by the way do you happen to be in this country legally. and they came after you. the solicitor general was after you, elena kagan, it appears she will recuse herself from this argument as it comes into the court. what do you think about that? i think she made the right decision. she did have a conflict because she was giving advice in regards
i m fascinated by this. i want to focus on what newt gingrich said about bain capital. whatever, what is bain capital? it doesn t really matter but newt gingrich, andrea, is attacking mitt romney for working for a free market capitalist organization, you know, that helped to, you know, knock down some businesses and build others. is that wise on his part? well, i don t think this rich guy against d.c. insider strategy is going to work. i particularly don t think what gingrich is doing is going to work but i also think that what romney is doing to gingrich talking about freddie and fannie is not going to work. i remember obama was a senator that took the most money out of anybody in the senate from freddie and fannie. when you see the economy he can choing like it is now, these type of attacks don t matter, take alreadily in gop primaries. you pointed out, martha, earlier that gingrich is up having in iowa. this is because romney finally decided to go on attack. he didn t want to do t