they look for candidates who speak to their issues. we know soccer moms and security moms and kitchen table moms. and santorum is just turning them off. jenna: the question is, will the president actually maintain the women vote? we did see a as andrea pointed out in 2008, according to exit polls despite having a woman candidate as vice president on gop side the president got the woman s vote last time around. that will be interesting topic we ll talk more about. wayne, andrea, for a second he want to get your reaction to another story also a big story. it has to do with the huffington post website and rick santorum. rick santorum is part of this next story as well. rick, give us the background here. reporter: sure, jenna. larry doyle former write for hit tv comedy, the simpsons. you expect his take would try to be funny. critics say he went too far. his piece on the huffington post skewering the catholic church and gop candidate
illinois. and if you look at that picture, it takes your breath away. a loft damage and search and rescue teams going in at day break. we expect the figures to change, we hope they don t but that s the initial read, six dead in illinois, one dead in missouri, and more updates as we get them. in the meantime, mitt romney wins big in arizona but the race in his home state of michigan was tight. so did democrats give rick santorum a boost there? we ll take a closer look. and a big controversy over a column on the huffington post website, it s titled the jesus eating cult of rick san tore up. provocative indeed. is it satire or something else? juan williams and andrea tantaros give us their analysis in a fair debate, next. eeeeeeeeeeeee!
former boyfriend. he has become nationally known for his tough stance on illegal immigration and he s running for congress from arizona s 4th district but they report that he wanted his ex to sign a confidentiality agreement to keep their relationship a secret. the ex refused and said he was threatened with being deported. these are photos he gave the times and he is saying he was accessing computers without permission. the sheriff denies any wrongdoing. i m here to say that all these allegations that were in one of these newspapers are absolutely completely false. except for the issues that refer to being gay. because that s the treu, i am gay. i spoke with monica alonzo, the reporter from the new times and asked her how it came to life. part of the intimidation came from they both agreed they would not contact each other. through their attorneys they would just cease all contact with them. after jose moved he got a christmas card from paul babeu even though he mov
back more broadly this is not the kind of discussion i think republicans want to be having as they go into a general election against president obama. martha: so the question is where is it coming from? steve, when you look at the pattern in all of this, we ve seen whoever has been leading against mitt romney, the guns come out against them and clearly rick santorum s most vulnerable spot are some of the stances he has taken on social issues which everybody agrees he has right to say and think obviously whatever he thinks about these issues but they re not all that popular and you ve got to get the women s vote to win. is this coming from the romney camp, do you think? hard to say. it is a strength and weakness with rick san san. one of the reasons people are so drawn to him, particularly very conservative voters precisely because he has views and principled politician and election official and presence pilled seems in his private life. somebody who has convictions, strong convict sh
someone that does have the determination and record to take on barack obama. gregg: issues as you just described thems might that alienate many moderate, key independents, the swing voters that dictate general elections? no. what we re seeing as you noted with the growing momentum with the rick santorum campaign people are starting to recognize that mitt romney is a moderate that is not going to be able to take on barack obama. gregg: yeah. rick san is is winning over independents. winning over moderates an undecided and we re seeing in polls. gregg: no, not the new york times cbs poll out today. overwhelmingly they chose mitt romney on the electability issue. let me point out one other thing, polls consistently show most voters don t really like washington insiders. rick santorum spent 16 years in washington. isn t the quintessential insider and isn t that a liability? well, 16 years fighting washington. as i said, a member of the gang of seven that coast