for her. and she touched my heart in a way that at that particular point in time i realized if you re going to be pro-life, you ve got to be pro-life, you can t be partly pro-life. rebecca, you re seeing that for the first time, governor perry s comments this past week in south carolina. how does it make you feel to hear that your story from the movie gift of life had that kind of impact on a governor and a presidential candidate. for a long time and that night he told me that i had changed his heart and it, it was what i would call an extra moment for me and it was one of the greatest moments ever my pro mrief ministry and for him to come out and publicly share what had privately occurred within his heart was
graphic and i want to put it up on the screen and shows that the difference between 2008, 2012 is dramatic? iowa from over 12%, new hampshire from 7 1/2% to 23% and in south carolina where you had like 3 1/2% town 13%. congressman, it s obvious that something is clicking with voters more so than time than four years ago, tell me what is it that you re saying that is causing them to pay a whole lot more attention to you? well, i think you know me well enough that my message and my speeches haven t changed too much. my answers are the same. i think the country has changed, and i think people are much more concerned about the issues i ve been talking about. like, for instance, the issue of monetary policy. the young people who are very interested in what i m doing are fascinated with this and people are coming around thinking how long should we stay overseas?
race and we certainly have our job to go out and make that case to the people of florida as we are today. and the same thing, going around the country and making the case that, you know, we re the strong conservatives and hopefully the movement will rally behind us, they did last weekend in texas and i i think we re encouraged to see more of that in the days ahead. mike: senator, let s talk about the group in texas that met, voted, it wasn t unanimous, but they voted, with the majority, a clear majority so support you. it did not seem the to have the impact in south carolina that people expected. why not? that s a good question. i would say probably couple of reasons, i heard you mention earlier, i think there was a, you know, someone told me last night. remember, south carolina was the state that seceded from the union. there was a pushback to the establishment the the way that the media handled newt gingrich and the things going on. i think there was a lot of anger out there, the
am i quoting you correctly, shut up. the shut up approach. and a candidates want to dictate to your campaign. i get impatient with it. you won iowa and romney won new hampshire and gingrich, south carolina. and everybody has a victory, you re going into florida, why should you give up? look at it the other way, romney won in his back yard and newt won in his back yard and on the the fair playing field, we won. a lot of koifts are out there, we need to get out here and coalesce so we don t get mitt romney. i have two things to say for that, we ve beaten mitt romney twice, one with certain people in the race and four people in the race, it s not like the man is a world beater than at that conservatives, there aren t there are plenty of votes to beat him. number one, and number two, i d make the argument there s one good conservative in the
yours. you can contact me at mike huckabee.com and e-mail me, click on the fox news feedback section and i d love to hear from you, tell he me what you think. should a candidate quite when somebody says so or because he s defeated. and carl cameron is joining us from tampa with the latest. carl, what s going on in the sunshine state. hi, governor, you don t win by being polite, not a lot of cordial discourse. newt gingrich runs out of south carolina, and determined to coalesce around the country around his candidacy and in order to do that, gingrich signaled very clearly on the sunday talk shows today, that he will go after mitt romney as the massachusetts moderate. with a whole litany of criticisms, suggesting that romney is not reliable nor trustworthy when it comes to conservative values and the republican party. mr. romney arrived here in florida and just a little