talk, very struck by the shallowness of support for mitt romney. this is a crowd i thought would be pro-alum rock, the local establish in the state capital in ohio. not many were. they were open to santorum. the romney campaign is turned off. turned people in the state, as with dewine who told mike warner my colleague he never met mitt romney. switched to romney and then said i d like to get together with governor romney and talk to them a little bit. they went to a staffer and the staffer told him i don t know. maybe next time. i don t think that is why he did it. i think dewine is a principled man and he thinks that santorum has a better chance to beat obama. bret: many people are saying a bit of a stumble for the santorum campaign in that the foster freeze, the backer of the santorum super pac had this to say about contraception, and then the candidate responded. the contraceptive thing, my gosh it s such inexpensive.
santorum, negative ads. santorum is not as vulnerable as gingrich. therefore, the romney campaign should look inward and better articulate why he should be president of the united states. it would be the end of may until you could get to the number, 1144. it would likely go beyond. that the last state for delegates is utah, june 26. if santorum remains strong and let s say he wins by a small margin or comes by a close second in michigan, it would suggest a race that will go all the way in to may. bret: next up, the friday lightning round including that picture of the belgium politician daughter. you think this is offense sniff we ll be right we know a place where tossing and turning have given way to sleeping. where sleepless nights yield to restful sleep. and lunesta can help you get there, like it has for so many people before. when taking lunesta, don t drive or operate machinery
president obama backed 25 million for his re-election. ahead of a romney fundraiser in utah, democrats slammed his stewardship of the 2002 olympics as wasteful using comments from romney backer john mccain. the economic games hosted and funded by salt lake city which began in corruption and bribery is now turned in to an incredible pork barrel projec project. the first olympics after the 9/11 attack. and romney aides fired back at democrats that taxpayers money was 18% of the overall bill and used for security. when taxpayers picked up 36% of the tab. ron paul s lead has grown to 239 votes. one county that was snowed out will caucus tomorrow. but the final count has no
the vatican. i go by the constitution and not talk about these issues on which he is not in the mainstream. liz, conventional wisdom is the issue, itself. back and forth in washington has helped rick santorum. but charles is suggesting that there is a point where it hurts. there is primary and sgren. if you think ahead. if you think santorum might get there. yes. in terms of the general election, fight of the merit of contraception is not something that the republican party wants to be having. i do think in a weird way, santorum has been elevated by this in part because it allows him to appeal to conservatives who agree with him on this. i think there is a certain amount of he is getting credit for his authenticity and his willingness to put this out there that he knows isn t necessarily popular with everybody. and stick with it. i think that contrasted romney served santorum well in some ways. romney s biggest problem in this race is nobody knows what
and syndicated columnist charles krauthammer. liz, your sense of race as we get ready for the 28th in michigan and arizona? it is interesting right now. what polling we had right now shows santorum is actually leading romney in michigan. romney is now on the record saying he is not going to lose michigan. he is not trying to lower expectations there. he is trying to set a bench mark and say i am going to hold this state. and i have to say if i had to guess right now i d say he is going to. but who knows? all bets are off. santorum is certainly having a very good run at the moment. and he knows it. you can see that expression on his face standing there next to mike dewine today. he is feeling good about things. bret: the santorum campaign says they will launch strong ad buys they say in michigan, arizona, and then the state of ohio, oklahoma, georgia, tennessee and north dakota. strong six figures, bill, is what they are saying for a campaign that did not have lat of money at the be