the anyone but romney forces have finally found their anybody it seems like. for santorum to be in this kind of lead in michigan, and against all the money, i ve got to say there s something wonderfully encouraging about seeing the money not work. if you could hope for any result in this campaign where the money has gone wilder than ever before with the citizens united decision, the super pacs, what you want to see, i think, without regard to who it affects is the failure of the super pacs. and if the superest of the super pacs can fail, the romney machine, then we have partially perhaps survived something. do you agree, lawrence, a point i made about the mud ad, the romney anti-negative ad, i think that s a turning point. i think that is a you can point to that and go, you know what? people are going to turn off these negative ads, and i think the more negative ads he runs, it s going to have the reverse gingrich effect and help santorum. and it s a liability
captions by vitac www.vitac.com we begin with the white house riri treat on a major healthcare policy battle with huge political implications. no longer will religious schools and charities be required to provide free birth control to their employees. if they don t the insurance company will have to provide that coverage. the president says it s a win/win. this is an issue where people of goodwill on both sides of the debate have been sorting through some very complicated questions to find a solution that works for everybody. with today ease announcement we ve done that. religious liberty will be protected, and a law that requires free preventative care will not discriminate against women. cnn chief white house correspondent jessica yellin and senior congressional correspondent dana bash. they re trying to to say they didn t but they botched this one at the white house, the handling of it. do they think with this compromise now they could calm the storm? they thin
lead evaporating in florida and gone nationwide. it shows a virtual romney-gingrich dead heat, a sharp change this last week before the south carolina blowout victory. those numbers could and certainly will change. for now, the trend is so worrying to romney forces, they re doing what they rarely do, taking the challenger, not through super pacs but directly. while florida families lost everything in the housing crisis, newt gingrich cashed in. gingrich was paid over $1.6 million by the scandal ridden agency that helped create the crisis. that new ad was straight from the romney campaign, this earlier today was straight from the stump. i m calling on speaker gingrich to do two things, release all the work product associated with his work at freddie mac and return the funds he made from freddie mac. i wouldn t have normally suggested that other than he was the one that said if you made money on this failed model you ought to return that money. within hours of that, the
reporter for real clear politics. okay, the stop romney forces are in full effect. jennifer, we know you re very supportive of mitt romney at this point. i m supportive of rick s santor santorum, i think cream rises to the top. picking up on your massachusetts theme, it s something i m surprised we haven t seen sooner. eric erickson is an influential blogger. only the dmc can lose twice and think they should nominate one. that was the guy who said rick perry was the savior of the republican party, so let s put his remarks in context. but i think what this shows is a realignment of a reconsideration of this very silly, very counter productive attack that went on all week, that essentially has belly flopped horribly for them, now you have rush limbaugh and
yesterday and polling that we had from the des moines registry yesterday. he now seems to be the subject of some scrutiny. how well do you think he is equipped to stand up to in tht ? what do you make of his appearance on meet the press yesterday? i thought he looked a little nervous yesterday. it s a strange position for a candidate like rick santorum who has been flying not just below the radar but almost subterranean as he s been making his way across iowa, doing the old fashioned way and getting no scrutiny and press attention. suddenly he s in the eye of the hurricane. he is still although getting some tough questions yesterday from david gregory, he s still not the focus of a lot of attacks out here. and there s a reason for that. the romney forces, which would be the moefrts equipped to attack rick santorum, they want to kind of prop him up. they like the idea of rick santorum being the conservative who emerges from iowa. they don t think there s any way