amazing rise and fall. what happens to the perry orter? does the rry supporter who walks in on caucus night who is also a social conservative, do they stick with him? how committed to him are the or do they end up buying the santorum argument that says, you know what, i mhe consertive that can come out of here, that can win, that can keep going on? and where that what happens to that? anby the way, mitt rom fly, he needs a strong rick perry. he needs rick perry just stro enough so that perry will go to south carolina. does the field narrow after the results are in well, i think it will narrow in the n the actual does the actual playi field narrow? maybeby one candidate, maybe a bachmann. newt has no inservive to get out. perry, let s see what he does. perry is at 15, he stays in and goeso south carolina. if he s closer to 10, i think then he may pack it in. that s nottood for mitt romney, by the way. he needs a few re conservatives to hang around so he can stealouth carolina.
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 from a fire hose for him to try to
owa caucus. so think they would love to beat santorum, but if santorum beats them, they re still in the top two and there s great clarity. there s no way romney comes t of here loser if he s in the top two. now he knows who his opponent is going to be in new hampshire, which is not social conservative territory at all, and will roll the process out. i think the romney people would ke a win. i m not sure they need one. part of that analysis is hey, santorum s good for us, we keep it expanded, take thatield to south carolina, he ll go after rick perryf perry can stay in the race, bet are for romney. if the issue is who is the stalwart conservative, did ri santorum help himself this morning in the final push? i think he had a convoluted answers to two your question one about his support for mitt romnefour yes ago and also on rape and incest exceptions to ortion when he was running in president. right now i see two buckets of scenarios. scenarios that are great for mitt romney and scen
people in pomona, california. imagine your reaction to seeing a sto saying that a plurality of people in pomona thought newt 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 c
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 have signed on to our campaign. county attorneys, sheriffs, ve got a great team up there and we re going to have