some respects foreign to the american experience type of philosophy. i wish this president would learn how to be an american. it s not an american administration. it is a european socialist administration. our president doesn t have the same feeling about american exceptionalism as we do. stst not about you. it s about some phony ideal. some phony theology. not a theology based on the bible, a different theology. i don t think he understands why our economy is the most successful in the world. i don t think he understands america. so there s romney and the gop leadership questioning his knowledge of america. he s different, he s other than us. clearly dog whistle tactics by the whole republican establishment. and it s at the expense of dividing this country. well, reverend, i ve heard about driving while black in new jersey and how that is a statement how people are abused
conservative, and i watch these debates and i m wondering, it s a little troubling sometimes when people are appealing to people s fears and emotion. these appeals to fear getting more shameless by the day. just check out what rick santorum said on the glenn beck show. i understand why barack obama wants to send every kid to college. because they are indoctrination machines. do we make it another four years with barack obama? i think this country would be a fundamentally different country at that point. we will have lost the i am not saying it just to you. i think we will have lost the very essence of what america is about. what? the president s re-election would somehow destroy america s essence? those comments capped a week filled with the lowest kind of attacks on the president. this is what the president s agenda it s not about you. it s about some phony ideal.
good evening, everyone. i m erin burnett. it is an absolutely gorgeous night here in the high desert. high stakes in the high desert, because we are live in mesa, arizona. in just one hour, the candidates will face off in what could be the everyone hear that bird? i m sure you hear it too. must be excited to go outfront. well, it has been a bruising and surprising primary season, and it s going to be a really big debate tonight. what a difference from the last time these men shared a stage. take a look at january. just before mitt romney s landslide victory in florida. he was riding high, but tonight, a very, very different story. a lot has changed and the former massachusetts governor knows it. he is feeling the heat from rick santorum, who surge shows absolutely no sign of abating right now. he won, colorado, minnesota, and missouri. and just today, another national poll shows him leading mitt romney 35 to 26%. in the two states voting on tuesday, arizona and michigan,
doing the things he believes the american people elected him to do. to take every measure and every action he can to grow the economy and create jobs. the controversy started saturday at a christian forum in ohio. it s about a phony ideal, a theology. not based on the bible, a different theology. the president himself used the fade phony religionosity after the political debates. we can benefit from turning to our creator, listening to him. avoiding phony religionosity. administration officials noted the president started with the phrase we, including himself in the warning, not attacking opponents. though later the president suggested republicans are wrong on taxes but alluding to the bible supporting his push to make the rich pay more. for me as a christian, will
we re in mesa, arizona, tonight s cnn arizona republican presidential debate. it s been about a among since they last faced off and since then even more upheaval. rick santorum is now the surging candidates and the one for mitt romney to beat tonight. both men we are campaigning down to the wire and may have given each other press ammunition. he s here with us, going through the details. what s the latest? for the top two candidates, the devil is in the debails. two potential flash points. tonight mitt romney s new tax plan and rick santorum s faith-based brand of politics. he made what could be a risky move, a plan that could come under fire. i m going to lower rates across the board for all americans by 20%. it will last setting the top bracket for the wealthier earners at 28%, and cut the corporate tax rate to 25%, lower than the 28% proposed by the president, but higher than his gop rivals. romney would offset some of those cuts by limiting popular deductions for th