third term that was pretty well known in that state, and romney will hit that point, and am romney has romneycare and he needs a better response than he s given so far about why romneycare is different than the president s plan and that santorum has been benefiting that, hitting that very, very hard. jon: i think a lot of republicans, obviously a lot of conservative voters, they just want the candidate that they feel is going to be best positioned to beat president obama, and in the recent polling that i have seen, again, it s a snapshot in time as of this moment, but mitt romney actually does better against the president than rick santorum. he does and i think he s been stressing that theme but santorum has been making the counter argument that we need a sharper con contrast, and between a conservative and a liberal, and i think romney needs to defend the reason that he, too, really is a conservative. he has to win those populist conservative voters who haven t been won over so
it three-man race again? his daughters are in studio with that answer. plus, we look inside the left wing organization known as media matters in this week s media mash with brent bozell. countdown to election day continues and hannity starts right here, right now. tonight on hannity you hear from mitt romney. now recent days the former massachusetts governor found himself trailing rick santorum in a number of polls and in an effort to ensure that trend continues the former pennsylvania senator released the following ad targeting governor romney s record. take a look at this. mitt romney s negative attack machine is back. on full throttle. this time romney s firing his mud at rick santorum. romney and his super pac has spent staggering $20 million attacking fellow republicans. why? because romney is trying to hide from his big government romneycare and his support for job-killing cap-and-trade. romney is tactics are going to
how important is the michigan race? santorum has to win michigan. because he needs victory to be accelerator. to make it possible for him to win on super tuesday. super tuesday is the first time money really matters in this race. because you are running in all the huge states. texas is a week later. you need money to do that. if romney wins in michigan, i don t think that santorum will have the momentum to be able to get the funds to compete. i think my feeling about this, greta, right now santorum is theoretical object. greta: what does that mean? he is not gingrich. and the voters have decided they don t want gingrich. he doesn t have gingrich s baggage. he doesn t have a flip-flop on abortion. he never proposed romneycare. but the voters don t really know him. they never paid much attention to him in the debate. he has not had scrutiny. greta: he went to iowa,
how important is the michigan race? santorum has to win michigan. because he needs victory to be accelerator. to make it possible for him to win on super tuesday. super tuesday is the first time money really matters in this race. because you are running in all the huge states. texas is a week later. you need money to do that. if romney wins in michigan, i don t think that santorum will have the momentum to be able to get the funds to compete. i think my feeling about this, greta, right now santorum is theoretical object. greta: what does that mean? he is not gingrich. and the voters have decided they don t want gingrich. he doesn t have gingrich s baggage. he doesn t have a flip-flop on abortion. he never proposed romneycare. but the voters don t really know him. they never paid much attention to him in the debate. he has not had scrutiny.
this time, romney s firing his mud at rick santorum. romney and his superpack have spent a staggering $20 million attacking federal republicans. why? because romney s trying to hide from his big government romneycare. let s bring back the panel. steve, you re an ad maker. what s interesting here, the difference we re seeing in the campaigns. rick santorum s campaign was a old-style infrastructure campaign around him. newt s campaign never came up with a real response to romney attack. as we see, we don t know if there s any real money behind this response. santorum already with a response. there s a thing about this ad that every ad maker loves is it s a memorable ad. you see it one time and you remember it. people have to see it five or