i want to emphasize, the reason why mitt has the electability is because of his experience as a governor and business person and saved the olympics in salt lake city, and i think people are looking at that as a reason for his electability. if you go to the negatives for gingrich, and can newt gingrich beat president obama? i think any of our candidates can. you just showed the numbers up there. we have to stop the debates. enough with the debates, because they are driving up our candidates, all of them on unfavorability. we have had enough of that. they have turned it into mud wrestling. we ve had enough of that. and it s time to recognize who the real adversary is, and that s not each other. what about the negative advertise something this is the growth of the super pac in this race? do you condemn those as well on this side? i can condemn on all sides, and i can condemn the united states supreme court for the decision which is an outrage.
i i sure you. i m sure, but that s kind of different. i m just observing. we ll get to the meat of what we re talking about. alex, what is the sense on the ouce or is it hard to tell? i think that romney has really benefitted over the last week from an enormous paid media offensive on the air waves here. you see advertising on all sides of this race, but the romney ads are just overwhelming the gingrich ads at this point. newt needed those two debates as an opportunity to level out the playing field and i think the general consensus among republicans here, he didn t have the kind of electrifying moment he did in south carolina. he s still drawing crowds, putting in strong performances, but there isn t that sense of a run away train as in south carolina. you write that romney s surrogate john mccain says stop the debates because he s tired of the mud wrestling. if romney becomes the nominee,
2012 can be the year to take control of your finances again and end the year in better shape than you started. that is our goal, folks. stacy francis is the ceo of francis financial and john is president of consumer education at smart credit.com. welcome to the program. good morning. good to be here. john, we don t want to add more credit card debt. we don t want to end this year and go into 2012 with more credit card debt on top of the debt from the year before. how do you get a grip on this situation, your credit situation here? all that stuff you re going to open under the tree tomorrow morning, a lot of that stuff was paid for using store credit cards. retail store credit cards. the average interest rate on those cards is a whopping 24.9%. that is absolutely absurd. so as you enter 2012 the first thing you should do when you get those bills is to endeavor to attack the balance as quickly as possible because every single month you revolve one of those balances you ca
kiki, newt s on a charm offensive saying he s not going to go negative. at the same time, romney is going on his own charm offensive with the media. he s been in mass media all along. who do you think is doing a better job of being charming? well, i think charming is probably missing across the board. but this is that mud wrestling that goes on right as you get into the final lane in the caucuses in the new hampshire primary. and the reality is neither one of them are secure in their position. neither one of them are seen as leaders of their party. if they were, by the way, they d do something about what s going on with their congressional republicans, they d pick up the phone and call speaker boehner and actually engage in what s going on with the tax hike that republicans are about po put on. what you see here is a lack of leadership from both of them. it s ironic given when you hear mitt romney say president obama needs to show leadership, but neither one of them are showing it
lawnmower races. i remember some big stories. but then, of course, we had the 14 hurricanes, timothy mcveigh, the elian gonzalez case. i was posted outside his home in miami for a long time. every time he went to the swing set, it was a fox news alert. i also tried to put expenses in for mud wrestling, i didn t get them covered, did you? no, i didn t! it s a shame because it s journalism. brian has a fax machine at his house and he s trying to declare that the massapequa bureau for tax purposes, it hasn t worked. when did you say you re knee deep in politics? the depth in knowledge of politics and the way you handle that show, it seems like you ve been doing it for 25 years but you re only 19.