so are you like me wondering how newt gingrich is going to hand a fourth place finish in iowa? take a listen to conservative hero my man rush limbaugh on newt versus mitt. newt is not getting out. newt is in this to destroy romney now. newt may be more motivated to destroy romney than to especially win this. who does that benefit? santorum who is going to be sitting there on the other side, you know, doing the mr. clean routine. newt already has a full-page ad in the union leader comparing himself to romney. he s possible that romney might have to endure newt going for the jugular in the debate. the gloves are coming off. eric: and well, they are coming off kimberly: they re off! eric: were you wondering what is going to happen to fourth place? next thing you know he is fourth. is there a fourth ticket out? andrea: hell have no fury
essentially the speech last night was saying i cannot win, everybody, but i will put a blow torch to mitt romney every day, i will chew him up in the debate. santorum can talk about the the economic plan. that the wall street journal gave kudos to this weekend. blue collar voters. santorum has perfect foil in gingrich. he wins by having him go after him. eric: so what happens with romney? hold it. what happens to romney if newt and santorum hit iowa? positive and negative. dana: he continues as he has been. their campaign is saying it s not like we haven t been attacked. we have been the front runner for year. of course we ve been attacked. remember bret baier asked him about healthcare one of the times we thought you re not ready for that? you are still testy about it? wait until president obama gets ahold of you. but another person we haven t talked about is rick perry. he came in fourth fifth.
like a speaker scorned. he is saying he is upset about what happened in iowa. essentially the speech last night was saying i cannot win, everybody, but i will put a blow torch to mitt romney every day, i will chew him up in the debate. santorum can talk about the the economic plan. that the wall street journal gave kudos to this weekend. blue collar voters. santorum has perfect foil in gingrich. he wins by having him go after him. eric: so what happens with romney? hold it. what happens to romney if newt and santorum hit iowa? positive and negative. dana: he continues as he has been. their campaign is saying it s not like we haven t been attacked. we have been the front runner for year. of course we ve been attacked. remember bret baier asked him about healthcare one of the times we thought you re not ready for that? you are still testy about it? wait until president obama gets ahold of you.
another four or five points. it s begun to catch up to him. the republican base and he is, for example, isolationists. it s something he has been all along. kimberly: they were hitting him and we saw what happened with newt. talk about michele bachmann. she stepped out and suspended the campaign. let s take a listen. last night, the people of iowa spoke. with a very clear voice. so i have decided to stand aside. make no mistake, i ll continue to be a strong voice. i ll continue to stand and fight for the country and for the american people. kimberly: i think she bowed out of this in a graceful way. this is something, she was a class act about it. instead of making it about her, she is trying to think of the good of the party going forward, which is admirable. eric: not only fantastic speech she gave. she bowed out like you said, gracefully and said for the good of the party, i m stepping aside. also for the good of america, we need she did it. she said we need to make sure
in the time there. he work and it paid off for him. victory for him in that regard. but is he going to be able to court the conservative base to the point they will show him the money he needs to have legs going forward? as everything is brought up in new hampshire, he has to try to move it to get momentum. eric: important observations from iowa. mitt romney got 25% of the vote. that s all he has gotten from the beginning. every poll they took nationally, iowa here. with the exception of new hampshire, he is at 25%. so clearly, 57% of the g.o.p. voters don t want mitt romney. santorum steps up. does a fantastic job. newt gingrich this is more important for newt gingrich than rick santorum. personally. because it paves the way for newt. bob and i had a discussion yesterday on air whether or not if mitt romney wins iowa and goes ahead and wins new hampshire, you said it was all over. bob, i disagree with you.