whether he wanted to or not, merit based system, is back to 1815 describing the system of industrial development for america is a phrase you can look up, it s a school of thought. i m in the sure the president thought about talking about it correctly. and if this internet, for example. because the white house didn t see knit that context, critics didn t either. and there is if it went viral and so on, and there are days before nbc news and the obama administration realized there is a virus or a lit under them. the tax issue. people are clamoring. the media after mitt romney. we want to see more of your taxes. is this a media driven story? i think it s media driven story and there is some
for us. good sunday morning you. good morning, alex. what else did david axelrod had to say. he distilled the theme of the campaign into a simple phrase. a fair shake. every citizen in the country deserves a fair shake and more than that. everybody should be paying their fair share. that is essentially the theme and that is the preview of the kind of campaign they ll be running against the presumptive nominee. to hear the white house say it, people like david ak elrod, out of that campaign office in chicago, mitt romney, assuming he ll be the nominee. two schools of thought when it comes to the primary fights on the republican side. they get it out of the way early, voters get used to hearing the negative charges and they re inoculated. the general campaign, in the general election. what the obama campaign is hoping the second school of thought. they tear each other down so
border. we ll tell you why. plus, we could be seeing the highest gas prices of all time here in the u.s. $5 a gallon, really? we ll explain where your money is going. i hope you re sitting back getting a little r&r this morning. we re going to start with the campaign trail in florida. newt gingrich and mitt romney have events coming up this morning. gingrich has been in stewart, florida, attending a lincoln day breakfast. it serves in about 30 minutes. as for mitt romney, he ll be holding a rally in pensacola in about an hour. florida is the biggest prize so far. it s anyone s ball game at this point. paul steinhauser is going to break it down for us here. good morning, christi. just three days away now from florida s crucial primary. it s a winner take all primary. 50 delegates at stake. that is the biggest haul so far in this primary and caucus season. you ve got former massachusetts governor mitt romney and former speaker newt gingrich campaigning in the state all we
these families are afraid out here. and these victims have been through a terrible amount. it s a slap in the face. i was a district attorney. some of them need cut loose. i haven t had a chance to check the list for my former prosecutors. so this is a significant problem. but i think we re going to get a handle on it. i think the evidence that we ve seen. he violated the constitution and most of the so-call eed pardons will be held. we ll have more on the story in just a few minutes. so much for southern hospitality. one republican presidential candidate is using the word armageddon to describe the political plight that is happening now in south carolina. the state s primary is just nine days away. several candidates have campaign stops in south carolina in the next hour. you re looking at rick perry, newt gingrich, rick santorum, all holding events there. mitt romney campaigns in florida after an earlier stop in south carolina. more violence now out of syria. you are wa
fighting for the middle class. what the bush campaign did to john kerry, tell me if this sounds familiar, they said he was an elitist, ultraliberal and he was a flip-flopper, they did all of those things and is that similar to mitt romney? i think so you know, there s a school of thought, joanne, if you try to paint mitt romney as a moderate that you know exhe is not liked by the republicans and the argument would be then because he is not conservative enough, it hurts you in the general election. right r i think that s absolutely true. i think what the obama campaign is not going to want to push s moderate. that is what newt gingrich is going to be trying to do so mitt romney has sort of discarded his competition, he thinks he is putting newt gingrich away. that was his main competitor. i think in the republican race you have that. he s a moderate, not conservative enough for us, but on the obama side, they want him to appear to be too conservative on immigration reforms, saying