a vice presidential candidate to compliment themselves. depends on if they make a political or governmental decision. a political decision, in the case of romney he will probably say i want somebody from the emerging south like a marco rubio or another successful governor from the midwest. or if it s herman cain he will like somebody who has got some solid government experience, much like barack obama did when he was worried about his foreign policy credentials and picked the senator of the foreign relations committee, joe biden. but i learned in 2000, i was opposed to dick cheney being chosen because i thought it was a political mistake. we didn t need to worry about wyoming, he was an oil man, we were trying to develop the i willage of bush 43 as his own man but then bush decided to go with dick cheney, and the reason was he said the day after i made the case against dick cheney to both he and dick cheney, the governor of texas called me and said i m going to go with cheney
suspect south carolina will be pretty good for him and 23 he keeps up the fundraising pace he can be competitive with mit romney on the tube. probably too early to be up on television. i wouldn t worry about that. rick santorum has radio ads, that s probably useful for him but if you are well-known for perry or romney or cain, it s better for you not to be on television in some of the early states but to be there in person. this was a critical mistake romney made four years ago n march, april and may of 2007, before he had really introduced himself personally to the to the people of iowa, he ran a bunch of television ads and i can t tell you how many people said he is a hot dog. he shouldn t be running television ads. we would rather see him at the dinners or the candidate forum than see his ads on television. let s assume romney and cain is the nominee, and this is a board game jumping ahead, what would they look for in terms of
him in the head-to-head match-up with president obama. one of the keys, they want to know being in office and having served as governor as texas, fork, as perry did, gives people confidence when i say i am going to did did you know i will get it done because i have got ten done before. that s what serving in office, gives people a clue. i have a bias because everyone said i was just a lawyer, i won make it in tv. i didn t have a journalism degree. that s because you are an exceptionally gived person. i tease you. governor romney, going into this, he s now among many of the sort of conventions, and pundits, almost like the heir apparent. is he? i think we are premature on this. four years ago rudy giuliani was leading the pack. when do we get to that point? when the individual state polls, when we get close to voting in the individual states and people are making up their minds in iowa, new hampshire, south carolina and so forth. even then they will change.
a bunch of people in the counties that know him well enough to sign up and say i m the romney county chairman here in cherokee county. herman cain needs that apparatus in place if he is going to snake iowa. you have to if you are a challenger like herman cain, you know, look, he would be the first president of a major political party not to have held elective office. if he was elected president, he would be the first president in history who never held elective office. so if you are running uphill, you better seize the opportunities. this is an opportunity, wandering in western tennessee on a bus is not exploiting it. is that, though, the fact that he hasn t held an office, i think in this climate is to his benefit. the tea party is so sick of congress and we expect they are going to vote republican. i mean, if anything, i think it hurts more to have a background. i hear this. but we want our presidents to be people who have substance.
you can be everywhere that everybody wants you to be. and having a strong sr. got like christie or bobby gindall for perry, allows you to keep your people followed up. and christie did an e-mail appeal on behalf of governor romney. that s what you get if you have a surrogate that s willing to throw themselves into the race. and governor perry seems less enthusiastic, almost like the wind is out of his sails. man he will get a second wind. but is he less of a factor or do we go back to your original thesis it s too soon? it s way too soon. particularly what his wife s comments you can see his mental state is not good. he gave a good speech today and he has $15 million in the bank. does he have the start of an organization and does he have a message that allows him to compete in the early states in i