the law and have jobs, but the republican party keeps attacking immigrants. they keep saying no, we don t want to do that. we want to expel these individuals. somehow, i think that that s an awfully high hill for the republicans to climb. i think obama will continue to do well with hispanics and i don t know how people like our other guests today can change the republican party and make them less anti immigrant. danny, martin says immigration is the hot topic. it was the hot topic at the debate thursday. let s listen. and the original conversations about deportation, the position i took which he attacked was that grandmothers and grandfathers aren t going to be successfully deported. we as a nation are not going to walk in to some family and by the way, they re going to end up in a church, which will declare them a sanctuary. i m not going to go find grandmothers and take them out
nice to see you. glad to be here. the republican contenders are beating each other up so. are they potentially damaged goods by the november election? i don t think so. look. in the primary, i d rather they not beat each other up. what the super pacs is doing back and forth. my preference they talk how job creation will affect families in individual lives. attacks the throw at each other the same attacks that obama will eventually throw at our nominee, so i think we will be okay in the long run. we will have to make our argument in the general election. our vision for florida and for america. but with all of the negative tv ads, lenny, in your sunshine state there, they got ten separate media markets and mitt romney outspending gingrich by 4-1 on these ads. do you as a republican see the negative ads as just a negative
at the top would cost republicans the house seats as well. i mean, these concerns are not just from him, there are a lot of republicans who have come out with similar sayings. how do you defend against this? with all due respect to senator dole, that is just baloney. senator dole knows better. when newt gingrich led republicans to victory in 1994 we won 52 house seats, okay? look. as conservatives, we all marched off the cliff with bob dole and marched off the cliff with john mccain and now the establishment wants us to march off the cliff with mitt romney because they pick candidates who lose. romney is from the northeast in new england. they have that strategy up there let s recruit moderate candidates to defeat democrats and guess how many members of the u.s. house of representatives are from new england? not one, zero. you have three senators, two voting for the obama budget. you re citing 1994. things are a lot different now than they were in 1994. what is different? what is
of their homes and deport them. those are your words and to use that rhetoric suggests to people that somehow if you re not willing to keep people here who violated the law that you re anti immigrant. nothing could be further from the truth. there was another heated change that i m sure you re familiar with. but danny, what is the best gop message to the hispanic community? the congressman points out the republican party is not anti immigrant. there are folks that have a real concern about allowing folks who came to the country and allowing them to stay. it s not a position that i necessarily share, but it is a genuine and sincere issue and there is a distinction between legal and illegal immigrants. now, the message we would have to send as party is that we do share values in terms of cultural issues. we have a plan to improve the economy. we do have a way to be able to increase jobs and get your gets better educated.
gingrich to the moon and mitt romney to e white house. what do you think? reporter: on the campaign trail friday, gingrich continued firing rockets at romney, hitting the air with a new ad. what kind of man would mislead, distort, and deceive just to win an election? i thought it was a delightful debate. i loved it. reporter: romney labeled is desperate and some are using to sgrib establishment fears triggered by gingrich s south carolina comeback. there was almost a full line panic at the top of the republican party. gingrich is like a wild date in the primary but in the general election he s not the winning horse. reporter: no matter how rough it becomes gingrich says he s in the race to the finish line and acknowledging the forces mounting against him. if you re an staebleed republican and enjoying life in washington and you don t mind presiding over the decay, i m a threat. and you can tell who they are by how hysterical they get. the fact is ronald reagan had exactly