she has been sinking ever since. down to 3% in this poll. perry guy to watch. he cannot afford another debate performance like the one that, the way you were in charge. he performed poorly. romney doesn t have to do anything. he can stand back now. significantly for him he didn t gain from perry s drop or picked up one point. i think sometimes it s a two-step process. if a leader will lose ground and later get to somebody else on the bounce. that may happen to romney. bret: on governor perry s performance in the last debate, his wife came to his defense at an event in iowa, saying this. he has never had a debate class or a debate coach in his life. he s going to be better prepared next time. well, that s i m not sure that is really a good comment for her to make. it sounds like she is saying he was not prepared which is
she has been sinking ever since. down to 3% in this poll. perry guy to watch. he cannot afford another debate performance like the one that, the way you were in charge. he performed poorly. romney doesn t have to do anything. he can stand back now. significantly for him he didn t gain from perry s drop or picked up one point. i think sometimes it s a two-step process. if a leader will lose ground and later get to somebody else on the bounce. that may happen to romney. bret: on governor perry s performance in the last debate, his wife came to his defense at an event in iowa, saying this. he has never had a debate class or a debate coach in his life. he s going to be better prepared next time. well, that s i m not sure that is really a good comment for her to make. it sounds like she is saying he was not prepared which is
michele bachmann need to do to stay in the race? and bring perry down a notch? joining me, michelle bernard and pat buchanan. let me start with pat on the front-runner. i want to get to this perry guy. he has to fill in the blanks. should he invoke the ronald reagan rule of thou shalt not speak ill of a fellow republican as a smart first move to cut them off at the pass? no, because he may have to do some real fighting before the night of over, what rick perry should do, chris, when he goes in there is he s sitting there and got them sort of locked up temporarily, he wants to come off as a tough, strong, conservative leader, but as johnny cash said, rick, don t bring your guns to town. don t bring that texas swagger, but stand up there and solve one of the problems you got, which is a lot of people say he s a terrific guy and a terrific candidate, but is this guy a president. i think he s got to come off as presidential, at the same time, tough.
talk about, quote, taking him out, silence. not a word. every media outlet. actually, jake tavern at abc news did something on it. but nobody else. it s been interesting to watch everyone immediately con textualize it, but not to excuse it saying the president wasn t there, he was saying it in response, hoffa was, to other war language used by the tea party saying he s willing to take on this war. a lot of people trying to justify it a little bit. what do you think as a linguist specialist? let me say this, you know who jim hoffa is, a fiery guy, a regular guy, a plain spoken guy. if you invite him to introduce you, he might say something about it. this isn t just jim hoffa. this sabt hoffa, i like hoffa. this isn t about him or joe biden. this is about the president of the united states.
the bigger picture is jobs, right, right, right? can you imagine what would happen? you know what happens? we re the targets, right? you talk about taking somebody out? that was the language that i think was take those sons of bitches out. that s hard to justify that. there aren t a lot of interpretations. let s go to willie geist. he s our linguist specialist. he s back not from a vacation but a sabbatical. oh! almost literally, months. sweet thing. it has been a month. professor of political discourse yeah, he s been at that college where that guy is teaching. we talk, we criticize republicans all the time they come out, michelle bachmann says horrible things or sarah palin has targets and all of the press joins in. it s a big ole party.