different. mitt romney was not a caretaker governor. he did not come into a situation and was handed a finely tuned state government machine. you feel as if george w. bush when you say caretaker governor, it sounds like you re talking about rick per. no. i m talking about mitt romney. he came into a situation in the commonwealth of massachusetts when the state was in severe recession, losing thousands of jobs every month and the budget was broken and we were spending more money than we were taking in and he turned that around and that s not the only troubled setting and he s also led in troubled settings at winter olympic games. when he took over the games, the games were mired in controversy and again, a broken budget and they were operating in the red. he turned that situation around in one of the most successful winter games. he did that in the private sector. he would fix them and turn them
added jobs and population in big numbers. david corn, if i m mitt romney, i m loving this. this is what i was hoping for. we ll talk about sarah palin s attack, too, on rick perry in a moment. i think he wants mitt romney would want sarah palin just fully in the race. right now, rick per were has leap-frogged over mitt romney. front-runner status, the tea party candidate that s getting michele bachmann and sarah palin worried. if he gets a few into the race, if sarah palin joins in, and they all start shooting at each other with that sloon music behind them, i love that in the the ad. it will help mitt romney. he ll got the noncrazy republican vote. which is not a majority, but it may be enough to help him win some contests. and michelle bernard, i guess next week the fireworks are going to begin. i think the fireworks going to fly, it will be very interesting to watch the dynamic between the candidates.
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with rick per ray running strong in the republican field some tea party types are running away from former front-runner mitt romney. freedom works is planning to protest in new hampshire this weekend, because romney is attending. an organizer said we had to defend our brand against posers, and others say romney doesn t represent their interests. we ll be right back. [ male announcer ] the most legroom per dollar of any car in america. the all-new nissan versa sedan from $10,990. innovation upsized. innovation for all.
idea first. maybe mitt romney is done forever in this campaign. make rick per maybe rik maybe rick perry is the front-runner permanently. but how do you square the perception of his plausibility as a nominee with the fact that he still has not come up with a way to deal with the biggest problem of his candidacy from the last time around? this is the one thing he has to get right. and he s doing just as bad on it this time around as he did last time. how can a campaign that fundamentally flawed, and with real competition now, plausibly win this nomination? joining us now is matt visor, who has been following the campaign of mitt romney. thanks for having me, rachel. and the romney campaign worried about the flip flop charge? do they see it as a perception that might have cost them the nomination back in 08? a little bit, yeah.