mark was talking about earlier. what kind of leverage rick santorum, newt gingrich and ron paul have. the flip side is it will be their responsibility and it will be mitt romney s biggest diplomatic mission to get rick santorum and to get newt gingrich to work hard for him if he s the nominee to bring the con venge together, make the convention a reconciliation of all of the various factions and parts of the party that mitt romney didn t win on his own originally. if he can engineer that, then this will be useful to the extent that people like santorum and gingrich will have credibility with the conservative base that romney will have to hope they can help to transfer to the nominee. mark, it seems to me that things have been said in this campaign that cannot be taken back. i do not see how newt gingrich can go out there and campaign for nominee mitt romney. you know, you are right,
what kind of leverage rick santorum, newt gingrich and ron paul have. the flip side is it will be their responsibility and it will be mitt romney s biggest diplomatic mission to get rick santorum and to get newt gingrich to work hard for him if he s the nominee to bring the con venge together, make the convention a reconciliation of all of the various factions and parts of the party that mitt romney didn t win on his own originally. if he can engineer that, then this will be useful to the extent that people like santorum and gingrich will have credibility with the conservative base that romney will have to hope they can help to transfer to the nominee. mark, it seems to me that things have been said in this campaign that cannot be taken back. i do not see how newt gingrich can go out there and campaign for nominee mitt romney. you know, you are right, lawrence. that s kind of contrary to what we have seen over time.
romney as the nominee. yes, i am. he has things he has to do to reach out to blue collar families and latinos. bill: what we have spoken about this for weeks and you have never gone this far. it bothers me to see a president who made wrong decisions being able to pretend to be above the fray while they are taking shots at our candidates. we need to shoot back at president obama. newt and rick and ron paul have run excellent campaigns. but let s look at the future of this country and not just the future of next state s primary. we need to get behind mitt romney. we ll put this question to them
mika? what do you think? t.j., can you put it up, please? oh. let s see. no, the other one. let s try the other one. so let s go to mark. and set that up while mark answers. what s the deal here? you know there s either a spoken or unspoken deal between mitt romney this is the sort of thing nobody in the media likes to talk about. it happens. everybody in the game knows is going on. is ron paul hoping his son gets a job. and who cuts the deal? is he hoping his son is going to be what s going on here? there s a deal between these guys. have you done one of those? here s the interesting thing. it s not just santorum. if you go back, ron paul has been a devastating attack dog against first rick perry, then newt gingrich, and now santorum spending millions of dollars with, i think, the most effective negative advertising
contraception and other things. i can t remember the specific thing he said. but he said, look, i m a man of principle. you can trust that when i say something i believe it as a veiled shot at mitt romney. there he is saying i went against my principles. i go along to get along, i took one for the team. politics is a team sport. that s probably the most shocking clip in the entire debate. harold, let s switch subjects now to the one thing that went unspoken but everybody knows and that is that mitt romney and ron paul have formed an alliance. it is such an obvious alliance that mitt romney would do well to just come out and admit it. i don t know what he s promised ron paul. i don t know if ron paul is hoping his son gets in the administration. let s go really honest here. for all people, for ron paul to