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 back. [ male announcer ] the 2012 m-class continually monitors blind spots, scans the road to reveal potential threats, even helps awaken its driver if he begins to doze. so in the blink of an eye it will have performed
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
months and that was a far more serious and egregious one. why are they harking on the risk? there is always a double standard in the media. we live with it, the sun rising in the east. that is going to happen. it doesn t help santorum when he is on this rise. it s not a rocket rise, but he is doing really well. ahead of romney in michigan and nationally. his chief supporter to be stumbling on the stupid things. but it isn t a stray issue. the reason it might have any resonance at all is because santorum is known for fairly extreme opinions about contraception and sex, having spoke even in october about it should be within the marriage pro creation alone. pleasure is okay. going on to stuff you don t want to hear about the presidential candidate. i don t know why he simply doesn t say i m a catholic, i believe in teaching and nothing to do with the torel, public policy and will no more affect me than it did jonathan kennedy. i don t take instruction from
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
weatherford who s a romney backer. i think this is an interesting outlier as far as what s going on. the backlash, the sense that perhaps the tea partiers in congress have not served the parties that well and perhaps the beginnings of a revolution or at least a movement to damper their power in congress, an interesting move, i think. or not. or not at all. or totally boring. interesting in florida. and certainly a question of will the tea party be an electoral force the way it was in 2010. in 2010 they were a negative force for republicans in some races because they i lekked people who could not be elected. they missed out on a chance. the election being fought over the question of is the democrat and those in congress big spenders. i think one of the challenges is try to make the election outlive