people lock in their votes on the feeling of the economy. it s slow, but it s good, and as republicans we need to celebrate that, but then contrast with him on the issues that are important to us like obama care, epa, regulations, and gas prices as we move into november. chris: let s turn to gas prices which are now as of today $3.79 a gallon, forecast that it could go up over $4 a gallon over this summer. liz, how big a problem for the president? i think it could be a problem for the president, and obviously they re worried enough about it that you saw him talking about it in his weekly address. he s talking about calling for oil companies to improve efficiency. newt gingrich has been hammering this issue in the last couple weeks, and he s been really. chris: 2.50 a gallon gasoline. he s mocking president obama as president algae in a way that only newt can. there are some indications he s picking up movement in the polls. they re a bit all over the place, so we ll see. we ll
newt gingrich is sperratic and will have an october surprise and he does his own wash. who was that british boxer, bayonne bleeder, a jersey guy, chuck webner? i think he s the bayonne bleeder. he doesn t have any moves, and any fluency with the language, he will be stuck on his feet and i think mitt will get beaten tonight i think. i may be wrong it s not about values, it s ability right now. in terms of the issues, i think mitt still hopes he can find the american middle, which means people who know these are not good times, would like to make a adjustments. the image he projects is a middle of the roader. and whereas newt is not playing for the middle of the road he s going for the hard right.
the counter punch, he wins. romney has to idea how to do the third attack, come back to the counter punch. he s a man of limited spontanei spontaneity. newt can hear the other guy s attack and respond to the very words in real time. the other guy is a character out of the mechanical people. mitt romney can t think on his feet. newt can. so interesting what newt has to be careful is to wait for the best punch thrown at him by romney tonight, on any issue, and punch him back for all he s got and he can win the election. you think he can be the nominee? you think that newt gingrich after what he did in south carolina and the way it s trending in florida this might be the tip of the iceberg for the moformer speaker? progressives are uncertain what is going on, i know they are. the right is angry, they have a very clearly motion. the anger is contempt, anger against the president, the
what do you make of it, richard? it seems to me that romney is out of his game right now. he s in the political wilderness, he s doing things in a very uncharacteristic manner and i think it difficult diminishes him a little bit. he has been able to hide the attacks behind other people, super pac out there, he has stayed positive. now he s having to do it himself and the problem for him is that he s going after something that republicans don t care about he s trying to say newt is bad because he is a lobbyist. the republican voters voted dan coates, who was a lobbyist and haley barbour who ran his lobbying shop was one i think he s on the wrong thing. if he s testing character where he stumbled on tax returns if he s asking if newt can take the pressure, newt can take the pressure. joan, does it matter if newt
that hollowed out the middle class and represented and enriched the top 1%. newt is the face of the politics of resentment and rage that let guys like mitt do that to the economy. they work hand-in-hand. we have seen it for 30 or 40 years, ed, it s working for now. i hope people wake up. it seems a republican habit when someone says something about president obama everybody seems to just get quiet and let the words be spoken and not challenge. here is an example. santorum. an avowed muslim, my question is why isn t something being done to get him out of the government? he has no legal right to be calling himself president. well, i m doing my best to get him out of the government. richard, notice the candidate