november. chris: congressman, newt gingrich keeps escalating his rhetoric and his attacks against mitt romney. and let s put some of these up on the screen. he has been calling governor romney is a proabortion, progun control, protax increase liberal. last week, he started calling him obama-like and little food stamp as opposed to obama who is big food stamp. isn t that over the top? george soros who is a pretty famous liberal supporter in the country says there isn t any difference between or there is not much difference between president obama and governor romney and at the same time chris, i have encouraged people to take a look at where the candidates stood on issues when they had a vote or when they influenced public policy. speaker gingrich was balancing the budget, giving tax relief, paying down the public debt and
concerned about the very poor and the weird press conference with donald trump and didn t actually feel like a great week for romney. in the back drop what really happened is we had the jobs numbers come out. the whole general election picture has been shifting and so even as you get the sense that romney is really, you know, consolidating his support you don t feel like republicans feel all that great about him or about his chances against obama. chris: liz cheney, let s talk now not about romney but about gingrich and santorum who are kind of holding on for their lives right now. we heard santorum and as bill mentioned really counting on a strong showing in colorado, minnesota and missouri on tuesday. gingrich seems to be really hoping and holding on for super tuesday, ten states including a couple of a few you southern states including his home state of georgia. what do you think of their strategy? what do you think of their chances? i think that both of them have adopted pret
january because they were good. the economy created 243,000 new jobs. the unemployment rate dropped for the fifth straight month to 8.3% which is the lowest in three years. and that raises the question, juan, if that were to continue is it going to be hard for any republican to run against barack obama? i think it is very hard if the economic numbers continue to get better and these were as you said, chris, these are terrific numbers. no getting away from that. liz s point sounds and i think governor romney s point sounds a little bit like cheering for bad news because of the political hope that this would give you a base to beat barack obama. but you if you look at things like consumer confidence, the fact that employers are hiring, tonight when you watch the super bowl you will see a ton of ads from the car companies. these people believe that things are getting better. and in a sense that is very, very good news for president obama. chris: well, okay, liz, make the case that eve
that they have to restrict themselves to only voting on or weighing in on or using social media to affect decisions on economic matters. they care about a lot of other things. this was a good wakeup call that the cultural issues remain important to an awful lot of americans. chris: juan? bill is quackly right. from a political strategickist point of view the wedge issue abortion being the foremost one is absolutely still critical in the country and a huge divider and has been used since the nixon days to try to win the catholic votes and obama won the catholic vote last time but at the moment although he still has the lead before the whole controversy that liz mentioned broke out, now the idea is that he is going to lose the white catholic vote and what is in danger here is the hispanic catholic vote. that is the critical thing here. are if you can get hispanic catholics who are sensitive to the church orthodoxy to shift from obama to the republican
with jobs. let s produce jobs and when you talk about making changes in terms of entitlement spending and the like that is a larger discussion but you not topic one for the voters going forward for november. chris: let me bring in mit. mit. let me bring in bill to talk about mitt romney. he is running so single mindedly as the master of the economy, the turnaround artist who is going to turn around the economy. if the recovery is taking hold, if the economy seems to be turning around on its own what is the rationale for his campaign? well, there is a rationale but i think rick santorum was is right in the discussion with you. the rationale is if you like obama care reelect president obama. if you like diskrame nateing against catholic institutions, reelection president obama. if you like cap and trade, reelect president obama. if you like increasing debt, reelect president obama. i think mitt romney has been so focused on making i m a business c.e.o. who can turn around the economy