you re going to continue to hear. i think to paul s point, also, i think many of the wes from folks up on capitol hill not only on the national security side but the intelligence side, is that enough of an infrastructure to support intelligence operations related to our national security objectives there with al qaeda and other terrorist organizations around the globe. so again, this is it is i think it is a welcome step, i think, paul would as paul would argue, by a very war weary nation but does it achieve objectives. what does the president say, paul, to the criticism of the kind of arbitrary timeline? the suggestion that the president is basing the timeline for withdrawal on politics rather than conditions on the ground? buck mckeenan to the new york times saying holding this mission to an arbitrary egg timer doesn t make a lick of sense. kevin talk about senators mccain, graham, saying that his withdrawal of u.s. troops in afghanistan is a monumental
dream. bob: your father was a hardworking man but he was white. andrea: excuse me, he didn t speak the language, bob. eric: all right, guys, listening to lefty and righty assess the current situation. if the election were held today, depending who the republicans nominate, i think he might well lose in a close election. if the election today it would be a landslide loss. let me decide landslide. five to seven points. it would be big. i m telling you. shhe is toast. eric: you re huffing. bob: first, though two to make a projection of next year boggling my mind. if he says the election were held today that paul would beat romney or gingrich would beat him in a landslide no are we kidding here? eric: the cbs poll showed romney up six points last night. bob: i said rush said he
lousy markers here. if you are going to use a white board, get better markers. greg: we buy them to smell them. bob: we made this the sixth. so take advantage. 8i have romney and huntsman and paul in battle for second and santorum and gingrich in battle of fourth and fifth. caboose is perry. dana: bob, you think this could be wrong. bob: romney is not going to do as well. he is losing support of independents, as is barack obama. both of them. that is something they both have to worry about. romney will win. but the question is by a margin, we have a margin of 20. not near that. 15, maybe. more likely ten. i think the second person is huntsman. here is where i think. paul has been falling every day. i would not be surprised to see santorum go by him. dana: would you put paul in the top three? andrea: i did on kilmeade and friends.
newt is viable. with the debates, if you can get a plane ticket you can stay in the race for a long time. third reason. rules on the republican side mimic rules on the democratic side and they are proportional. bob: until end of march, right? so if you get 15% of the vote in florida you get roughly 15% of the delegates. eric: everyone has money here with the exception of one guy. romney has money, paul, huntsman has his money. gingrich and perry has his own money. andrea: does anybody drops out tomorrow? who is the next to go? i don t think anybody drops out but one is walking dead. if you look i look at this today. every one of the guy has a buy. how much money does it take to keep the staff and pay travel bill for ten days and know you have money on television directly in the case of ron paul and romney or in the case of gingrich and santorum through super
and he owns me lunch. not just one at the cafeteria. there is a mcdonald s across the street. dana: one thing you wrote in your column, if romney were to win in new hampshire he would be the first republican to have won iowa and new hampshire for how long? no matter what happens the rules are broken. we are making history. nobody ever in an open race for presidency on the republican side won new hampshire and iowa. nobody has ever come in third and fourth and recovered. nobody is going to get, you know, as little as perry will get and recover. nobody will have failed to win one of the first two primaries like paul and recovered. whatever happens, some rule will be broken. bob: another rule broken. the fact in new hampshire you have active five candidates. normally you have two or three. you have five candidates vying for this makes romney fortunate. he has the people breaking up the vote. anti-romney vote. you wouldn t normally have that. that is a good point. it goes bac