stumble in new hampshire and be gone. they re hoping that the perry campaign is, that santorum doesn t do nearly as well in new hampshire and he s weak when he gets here. dana, one of the fascinating things we saw today i call this the frenemy triangle go back in time, no love lost between mitt romney, john mccain, rick santorum. mccain made a choice here. he and romney went at it pretty good in 2008 but in a longer period of time in the senate he and rick santorum developed more bad blood. so john mccain had a choice. essentially a tie in iowa, mccain chooses romney. take us behind that one. reporter: i think it s definitely a love triangle, there s some hate but it s a love triangltriangle, no questit it with the three of them. right, romney and mccain went at it big time and they kissed and made up in the general election in 2008, and rick santorum is somebody who has always had a very, very tense relationship with john mccain. i remember covering both of them in the united st
presidential race moved into new hampshire today and became a ground war. newt gingrich arrived this morning, a fourth-place finnish iowa, opened fire on the iowa winner, mitt romney. i find it amazing the news media continues to say he s the most electable republican when he can t even break out in his own party. i don t think he ll do fairly well here. this one of his three best states. but the fact is that governor romney, in the end, has a limited appeal in a conservative party. instead of striking back at gingrich, romney arrived in new hampshire celebrated the endorsement of senator john mccain and together they concentrated fire on president obama. my friends, our message, our message to president barack obama is, you can run but you can t hide from your record. he said if i can t turn this economy around in three years i ll be looking at a one-term proposition. i m here to collect. we re going to take back the white house. romney may sound like he s lookin