know, because that newt gingrich and rick perry, that s bad news if ron paul whips iowa. can that can it still keep going that long? sure, i think so look at south carolina, if, say, rick perry and newt gingrich is able to take south carolina that could then throw things off. once you get into super tuesday, you know, ron paul is going to stay there no matter what. i don t think he is going to stop. and south carolinaens always like to point out, since they moved to the front of the process, every time, i think since 80, whoever has won south carolina gone on to win the nomination. they will covet that stash. rue mesh, from the sublime, i suppose, to the ridiculous, joe arpaio, well known controversial sheriff from arizona was in iowa this morning, iowa, let me emphasize, iowa this morning and here s what he had to say. great state of iowa, was it the buckeyes what are they? what are they called? oh, hawkeyes.
h. w. bush, he favors him. however you slice that. does this establish romney as establishment and if he doesn t win iowa is it the weight of that turns and crushes him? potentially. let s not forget he rolled a lot of these endorsements or favor abilitities of bush out when gingrich seemed he was on the rise, a moment you saw the establishment collectively turning toward romney. that also tends to happen in the final weeks before the voting begins. this is a national time for that i think on balance is probably a good thing. there s no sort of one outside insurgent. what we saw four years ago is a battle between outsiders and the establishment and the insiders there s no there s no sort of dichotomy that way now. i think it probably does help. newt gingrichs a outside. we will be back, rue mesh, app and john. first, trivia time, who is the only president buried in the national cathedral in the answer, president woodrow wilson, who was born on this day in 1856. every year on de
um, didn t get briefed properly. this is not a big deal, what it gets to i think, is all of these people have their surrogates out. i got a big list from mitt romney the other day aaron shock, i m sure no one in iowa knows, a congressman from illinois, going around the state. does any of this surrogate stuff matter at all or is it just ways to fill up our pages and our websites until the vote? well, i think that surrogates tend to matter most when they say something spectacularly bad. thank you, joe arpaio. that doesn t quite rise to the level. but the candidates sure act as though it matters. you know, political scientists keep saying endorsements don t matter but the candidates sure keep wanting to get them. remarkable. in a way, we have seen mitt romney, rue mesh mentioned he rolled out endorsements, chris christie, tim pawlenty, george
words, dr. howard jones announced the birth of america s first so called test tube baby, 5 pound 12 ounce elizabeth jordan carr first successful use of in-vitro fertilization in the u.s. today, she turns 30. happy birthday, elizabeth. thank you for making me feel old. mitt romney is sounding more confident about his prospects in iowa knowing that if he wins, this republican race could be over sooner rather than later. i want do well in all the states and get a good start but i really can t set expectation a couple of weeks ago, office distant third in iowa and you just don t know what s gonna happen in this process. let s bring in our panel who always knows what s gonna happen in this process. a senior editor at the national review and columnist for bloomberg view and app kornblut is my colleague, reporter for the washington post and john stanton a staff writer for roll call. rue mesh, let s start out, it