much. for people like herman cain and rick santorum and newt gingrich, newt gingrich had a great moment beating up on the media, but the truth is, beating up on the media isn t who he s really running against. he s running against fellow republicans. when he complains about the media setting up a fight, that s what the debate is about. bill: rosen, how do you see it? do you see anybody scoring big points? i think mitt romney demonstrated something that was in doubt until last night, which is that he can effectively go on the attack and he handled his attacks on perry in a classy way, saying texas is a state with oil and gas in the ground, with a republican lecture. governor perry doesn t believe he created those things. that s a gentleman leeway to handle those attacks. perry stumbled on policy, particularly when discussing social security. he may have presented his views in a ineffective or frightening way and on climate change, i think his answer bordered on the incoherent at tim
much. for people like herman cain and rick santorum and newt gingrich, newt gingrich had a great moment beating up on the media, but the truth is, beating up on the media isn t who he s really running against. he s running against fellow republicans. when he complains about the media setting up a fight, that s what the debate is about. bill: rosen, how do you see it? do you see anybody scoring big points? i think mitt romney demonstrated something that was in doubt until last night, which is that he can effectively go on the attack and he handled his attacks on perry in a classy way, saying texas is a state with oil and gas in the ground, with a republican lecture. governor perry doesn t believe he created those things. that s a gentleman leeway to handle those attacks. perry stumbled on policy, particularly when discussing social security. he may have presented his views in a ineffective or frightening way and on climate change, i think his answer bordered on the incoherent at tim
for people like herman cain and rick santorum and newt gingrich, newt gingrich had a great moment beating up on the media, but the truth is, beating up on the media isn t who he s really running against. he s running against fellow republicans. when he complains about the media setting up a fight, that s what the debate is about. bill: rosen, how do you see it? do you see anybody scoring big points? i think mitt romney demonstrated something that was in doubt until last night, which is that he can effectively go on the attack and he handled his attacks on perry in a classy way, saying texas is a state with oil and gas in the ground, with a republican lecture. governor perry doesn t believe he created those things. that s a gentleman leeway to handle those attacks. perry stumbled on policy, particularly when discussing social security. he may have presented his views in a ineffective or frightening way and on climate change, i think his answer bordered on the incoherent at times. i
in massachusetts. texas is a great state. texas has zero income tax, right to work state, republican legislature, republican supreme court. texas has a lot of oil and gas. those are wonderful things. governor perry doesn t believe he created those things. if he tried to say that it would be like al gore saying he invented the inter internet. due cook cast created jobs three times faster. george bush created jobs three times faster than you did. trace: with us now the washington bureau chief for the chicago sun times newspaper. you get that feeling that of the eight candidates who were debating it is down to a two-man contest? absolutely. we have two big debates later this month to see if things change that was a big point last night, so much of the focus was on perry and his
in the ground. those are wonderful things. but governor perry doesn t believe he created those things. if he said that it would be like al gore saying he created the internet. michael dukakis created jobs three times faster than you did, mitt. george bush and his predecessors created jobs faster than you did, governor. martha: it row mind me of the my dad s bigger than your dad argument. good to have you. what did you think? i think they did great. it was civil and informative. it showed that the republican party has a big tent. we have 8 people giving various points of view. butting to on the key issues facing our country. we must create jobs and reduce spending and deficit