suggest. we have will cain who is a columnist for the blaze. i like the tweed. thank you. the actual professor though is next to you and that would be the former virginia congressman tom davis is back with us. i said a long good-bye to you yesterday and i m like, oh, he s back. we loved having you. he is also the former chair of the republican house campaign committee. and he teaches political science now. and ron brownstein is the editorial director of the national journal and he is with us as well. let s move on to the state of nevada because the state of florida is over. it is next. the state caucuses are this weekend. mitt romney is going to head west with new momentum after this big win in florida. he won 46% of the vote. newt gingrich was at 32% of the vote. second place sfin anybody. 13% for rick santorum. 7% for ron paul. rick tyler joins us this morning, senior adviser to winning our future pac and former gingrich spokesman. nice to see you, sir. good morni
that s his line. i ve always had the sense that santorum was really gunning for a cabinet post. that he may have done well in iowa, but he never thought he d do that well, and he s really sort of trying to hug up against romney rather than attack him. if you ve noticed, he s eschewed almost every chance he had to attack romney. one last chance. we don t get i guess most people, i shouldn t say we on behalf of anybody, but ron paul does not look like the candidate for winning the republican nominati nomination but is simply a person who wants to get a message across to the party at the convention, perhaps either on a platform or probably more forcefully, in the words of the eventual winner. what s his goal now going into south carolina? i just got done e-mailing with jesse benton, his main guy. he was right there next to ron paul and is practically a member of the family. he claims, at any rate, that they ve raised at least $10 million in the month of january alone. they re
it s funny. i haven t asked anybody. and the reason i haven t asked anybody, i m sitting at 3% in the national polls. and i really haven t gone out andsd any united states senator, i haven t asked a single one to endorse me. but i felt like i had to earn it first. that i had to go o and prove to youknow, i losty last race. and the general consensus was, you know, we like rick, but, u kno youan t who goes from losing their lastena race to winning the presidential nominati? my answer to that was, well abraham lincoln. but other than abraham lincoln, this is not aommon occurrence didn t know he was going out on a limb to offer, having served with you, knowing your credentials,nowing your principles. again, no one s going to ll you and say, you know, gee, can i, you know, can i help your campaign? 3%. and i would have said to them, you know what, wait. because it doesn t matter. i don t really need or want washington endorsemes. that s not what i m here to do. i m here to chang
member of congress. four in the house, 12 in the senate, and yet there s nobody who served with you who s endorsed you, have they? it s funny. i haven t asked anybody. and the reason i haven t asked anybody, i m sitting at 3% in the national polls. and i really haven t gone out andsd any united states senator, i haven t asked a single one to endorse me. but i felt like i had to earn it first. that i had to go o and prove to youknow, i losty last race. and the general consensus was, you know, we like rick, but, u kno youan t who goes from losing their lastena race to winning the presidential nominati? my answer to that was, well abraham lincoln. but other than abraham lincoln, this is not aommon occurrence didn t know he was going out on a limb to offer, having served with you, knowing your credentials,nowing your principles. again, no one s going to ll you and say, you know, gee, can i, you know, can i help your campaign? 3%. and i would have said to them, you know what, wa
member of congress. four in the house, 12 in the senate, and yet there s nobody who served with you who s endorsed you, have they? it s funny. i haven t asked anybody. and the reason i haven t asked anybody, i m sitting at 3% in the national polls. and i really haven t gone out andsd any united states senator, i haven t asked a single one to endorse me. but i felt like i had to earn it first. that i had to go o and prove to youknow, i losty last race. and the general consensus was, you know, we like rick, but, u kno youan t who goes from losing their lastena race to winning the presidential nominati? my answer to that was, well abraham lincoln. but other than abraham lincoln, this is not aommon occurrence didn t know he was going out on a limb to offer, having served with you, knowing your credentials,nowing your principles. again, no one s going to ll you and say, you know, gee, can i, you know, can i help your campaign? 3%. and i would have said to them, you know what, wa