from that point forward to see if we can t actually win the nomination. reporter: ron paul who finished second four years ago was counting on a first rate ground operation to compel him to a win. he now acknowledges romney is beginning to look unstoppable. i would say that statistically right now that might be the case but every once in awhile he gets himself into a little trouble, too. who knows what is going to happen. reporter: for rick santorum his worst finish yet. last place in a state he admittedly spent little time and less money. losing the conservative vote to romney. we weren t out there advertising and driveing that message. it is one thing to give a speech. another to try to drive and penetrate that message. reporter: santorum has a new rabeen trumping a new rasmussen poll that shows him as the only candidate that could beat obama head to head in november.
to lift up the middle class. i think it was taken out of context. from time to time every politician says things they wish they could have said a little differently. president obama is a guy that accused people of clinging to their guns and religion. i think there will be plenty of things in november. who can win and overwhelmingly the people in the republican race are voting for mitt romney because they think he can beat president obama and i think he can, do. chris: an interesting development in the exit or entrance polls actually before people went into the caucuses not only did romney win among the groups he was winning with before but beat gingrich among strong tea party supporters and people who identified themselves as very conservative. chris, i am shockd that any candidate running for president would say i am not concerned about the poor. that i think gives us a good indication. chris: in fairness he did
going back to work republicans can run on the economy? i think there is nobody who is cheering for bad news. i think it is good news for all americans when you see good jobs numbers but i think it is wrong to assume one month of this kind of jobs numbers takes care of the fundamental underlying problem which is the massive debt which is in large part caused by the entitlements crisis and president obama has been unwilling, more than just unwilling to deal with that. digging the hole deeper and deeper and deeper. we learned just last week we will have another trillion dollars deficit. americans still face a fundamental choice h this november about whether we go down the path of europe, whether we face a massive debt austerited ye aah tarity numbers we are seeing in europe. it is not just one month. it is all positive and when you talk about the underlying issues like debt i think americans are more concerned
column that would be a huge victory for republicans. chris: get into the thing that liz wanted to talk about and that is the fact that the obama administration decided that it is going to as part of the healthcare say that catholic institutions, not churches but charities and schools and hospitals must offer health insurance that covers contraception. the catholic church very upset about this and so apparently is liz cheney. they are fighting back. the catholic church is fighting back. the government ought not be in a position where they are forcing the catholic church to fund things fundamentally contrary to catholic beliefs. at the end of the day you will see republicans and democrats across the board, catholics and noncatholics standing up against it and if the catholic church fights and pushes up against it i think it will win. it goes to the core of who we are as americans. if the federal government is telling people that they must in fact pay for contraception and the morning
column that would be a huge victory for republicans. chris: get into the thing that liz wanted to talk about and that is the fact that the obama administration decided that it is going to as part of the healthcare say that catholic institutions, not churches but charities and schools and hospitals must offer health insurance that covers contraception. the catholic church very upset about this and so apparently is liz cheney. they are fighting back. the catholic church is fighting back. the government ought not be in a position where they are forcing the catholic church to fund things fundamentally contrary to catholic beliefs. at the end of the day you will see republicans and democrats across the board, catholics and noncatholics standing up against it and if the catholic church fights and pushes up against it i think it will win. it goes to the core of who we are as americans. if the federal government is telling people that they must in fact pay for contraception and the morning