and there is some family trait here and i said, well, stop yelling and let me ask, do you want to be treasury secretary and he says i don t lust for the job. neil: so that was not in the things that would be planned. guest: my guess is obama will, the president will ramp up the antibusiness stuff going into the campaign and this guy is a moderate, obviously someone who has ties to the business community. he did outreach to small businesses. and he said, he agreed with them, and it looks like this is not in the card, it will be a class warfare campaign and he does not want to be part of that. imus: that is the thing about charlie gasparino, the most powerful people in the world hang up on him. thanks, buddy. not everyone on wall street is a romney guy, and one former morgan stanley boss here and
newt s old style in that way, as you said, but he s trying to say i m the product of my experiences. he converted to catholicism after these issues and trying to put them behind him. i think there s a lot of forgiveness. look at bill clinton s, people are willing to forgive oversight. a lot that don t even remember newt this race may well be about visions of the country, which direction do we go and there s not a more articulate spokesman than gingrich. i want you to get a book plug in, governor. and it s funny. here s the i want to bring up the amazon description is funny here, and i want to read it because our nation has become one full of apologies and politically correct statement. it s time for the true map, and all right. i m reading this, and i m thinking well, then you should be a mitt guy and not eye romney guy. what i believe is the most
there and speak to people. there have been a lot of discussion about how romney doesn t come across as real. he comes across as sort of a construct, if you will. there s nothing constructed about chris christie and you got to have people speak on your behalf. sure. isn t that really what happens? when the going gets tough, you have the surrogate get out the brass knuckles. well, look. this is a very different time. you know, everybody has fun with the christie bombast. at the same time, people want him to run for president. when they see him, they re reminded about who romney is not. at this point, americans want a president who doesn t need a wingman. you know, this is the time for a guy to be doing it himself. i come across as the romney guy here. we should switch places so i can be in the middle. i m the independent. some of the here s another result from the fox news poll. if the republican nominee is would you be enthusiastic if the nominee is mitt romney. 28% of you
i think it is, they have to collect nearly 11,000 qualified signatures which means they probably need to have 16,000, 17,000 signatures in order to qualify and we ll see if that happens. all right. right now, there s an op ed out there that says that for a former member of congress, actually, who says that romney maybe out in six weeks of this race. a former republican out of new york says the bottom will drop out of romney s remaining system in the granite state as newt surges there meaning new hampshire. then a few weeks later, newt wins new hampshire. the polls have newt crushing mitt in south carolina and florida will reflect the end of romney and romney s remaining support will sink like a stone. your comment? interesting thesis and we ll see if it s borne out. it depends on five things happening. one, that newt wins iowa which today, he leads in the polls by about 12. he s likely to win iowa which is only 25 days away but the question then will be expectations. how big is his
careful and in being carefully calibrated, he doesn t excite anybody. very rarely do you run into any of them who says, yes, i m a romney guy, i m a romney woman, i love the guy. never do you hear that. you are probably never going to hear that and you might not need to hear that. until he can wrap this thing up, extremely vulnerable to somebody who can force republican conservatives to coalesce around an alternative. that hasn t happened. it doesn t mean it won t or can t. jim, aro shapiro, thank you. can cain and romney fighting for front-runner status rick perry is trying to claw his way back to the top. steve forbes is the chairman and editor of chief of forbes media. he has endorsed rick per prip good to see you. good morning. good morning. i think you just heard, you know, reboot, recalibrate. i don t think there s anybody who wouldn t agree with this statement that rick perry has had some problems as of late. what would you tell him to do to reboot and recalibrate if the