principles. and that s the tension. while you still hve two out of every five iowa caucusgoershave not yet made a decision. that s really going to get down to on tuesday night, you always hear the mantra, organization, organization, organizatio the organized campaign is going to have someone in each of those 1774 precincts t make the case, t only why a candidate can beat barack obama, but why they have principles of our party that they are going to the general. remember what happens on tuesday night. there s a set of speeches that happen before the actual vote. and i think that that is why, for instance, rick santorum is mang an electabilityargumen that s the problem he himself said he was runninginto. we agree with you. he fits the i republican caucus electorate better, frankly, than any of these candidates. tter than rick perry without all of the baggage th hs accumulated. betterhan a newt gingrich. he fits it, the social conservative vaues, vry strong inside the iowa republican pa
gingrich would be the best gop presidential candidate. would you say wow, i guess newt is now the front-runner? possibly not. now i mrom the los angeles area so i don t like anybo picking on pomona. b, is iowa gng to pick the president? wl, listen, this is the quadrennialttack on the hawkeyetate and i think iowa is representative. if you look at the last four national presidentl elections, ia s popular vothas mirrored at has hpened nationally. you also have to think what our role in the process is. we re first. we re not last. we re not the decider. we start winnowing the ield. the one thing you can t discount, there are very few ings the last few presidents inhe united states have in common but their path to the whithouse did start winning the iowa caucuses. what are you looking for the next couple of days? t me it s the rick perry number. he is the wild card here. newt ihink we clearly know gingrich is on his way down and he frankly may enter single digits before it s all said
show up and that s good for romney. if it s the old-styl sort of the activists that show up, i think santorum enough momentum,ith a little bit of a wild card here in rick perry, but then santorum does get out of here with some momentum. an i think that that s what we don t know. let me stick with santorum with you, chuck. if you look insid the numbers of the poll, the last couple of days, when they were in the field, talking to folks, this is what you see thatsantorum is actlly 21% because in those last twoays his numbers actually shoot up 6%, so if you re measuring intensity, not ooking at the full range of the poll, but just the last couple of days, you see santorum s really got that buz and thatas the big thing out of the nbcarist poll. both polls almost fit together and it was sanrum and ron paul for instance that had much more intensity than mit romney. in fact, rick perry had more intense support in o poll that mitt rmney did. and that s the romney problem. he s got the, well
facilities, you bgin to dismantlehem and make them available to inspectors or we will degrade those facilities with air strikes and make it very public. u wld lay out a red line and if they pass it, air strikes. iran would not get a nuclear weapon under my watch. two evious presidents have said that. you would order air strik if it became clear yes, that s the plan. i mean you can t go outnd say, this is this is the problem with this administration. you can t go out and say this i what i m for and then do nng. you become a paper tiger. and people don t respect our r country. and our allies can t trust us. that s the problem with this administration. all right. before i let you go, back to the litics. e you going toin this thing? i feelgood. i mean that s up to the people of iowa. i ve always said that the people of iowaare the ones i put my tru in. not just ioa, new hampshire. we ve got a great team u in new hampshire. we ve got about two dozen state legislators who hav
he s running against congress. that hasorked for him in the payroll tax fight but he still has to find that message for the state of the union, for whatever his nexplatform is going to be that is obviously the next one. to tell people how the cuntr can be better at a time where his only economic message can b it s not as bad as it could have been. it s better than it was. or and republicans will mae it worse. they ll take you back. there s a really interestg question for mitt romney next week. i think it s highly lily santorum will come out hereith a lot of energy. i don t mean second first. it will settle down, that will be what the medi will want. rick will come at it from the right. if you run on the romn campaign you ve got a choice, eitherust grind it out and have a contest on the right. you s you re pro-life. the white house is going to be giggling for tee months of that. or do you know you got the organizational strength and the depth and santoru it will be ke drinking fro