where the president is now leading the republicans, if those are the areas where clinton can be very effective. do you think he s more effective going after republicans for the very reason that people doubt his love affair with barack obama? they doubt that that it s a fully requited love between these two, but they are willing to believe when he pounces on the republicans? yeah, especially when he makes the times when he s learning over the lectern and starts leaning down home and makes very simple arguments on the economy. that s when he s at his best. you know, he might stray off the reservation a little bit when it comes to talking about the president. let me ask you about the president right now. do you have a sense that that he really wants to run against mitt romney still, and really i m sorry? no. he wants to he still wants to run against newt? yeah, i think he do, and, you know, the point that you were raising before about whether a long republican camp
well, i know you ll try. but i will make the case. i will make the case for you. every university in this country is hoping that it will be them, so we have a great opportunity to choose. thanks to you where to go with the president. if he s ready, many schools will be ready to receive him. david axelrod, good luck in the campaign. i mean, that thank you, sir. joe kleine covers politics for time magazine and one of the great reporters in the country and i m always fascinated by his thinking. look at the polling. i understand through the grapevine, you don t think newt has this locked. polling is showing that newt has problems in the general but we look at our polling at the wall street journal and neeshbc. he looks really good for the nomination. we ve reached a stage in the campaign that i really love because every day you have a week s worth of events happening, and today you you re beginning to feel a little bit of ron paul boom. you had that one outlier poll yesterd
the republicans? yeah, especially when he makes the times when he s learning over the electrlecturn starts leaning down home and makes very simple arguments on the economy. that s when he s at his best. you know, he might stray off the reservation a little bit when it comes to talking about the president. let me ask you about the president right now. do you have a sense that that he really wants to run against mitt romney still, and really i m sorry? no. he wants to he still wants to run against newt? yeah, i think he do, and, you know, the point that you were raising before about whether a long republican campaign is a really interesting one because those of us who are covering this crazy primary race are kind of like locked on to one of newt s moon colonies, in a hermetically sealed world where all of a sudden people can talk about privatizing social security as if it isn t the most
how he would deal with the president in the debate on the health care issue really made his program sound like omabacare-like, and i m not sure that helped him. jon: mr. romney said there were problems with the massachusetts health care law that his administration enacted. now, he blames part of that on the legislature, but if it didn t work or elements of it didn t work, why not just call it a missnake.e. right. i completely agree with you, and frankly, i think politically and policy wise, that would have been the best thing he could have done. but he has adamantly refused to do that. and one think newt has got over romney is that he admits some of his past mistakes. not all of them, but he concedes that he s made mistakes. and the health care bill in massachusetts, while it might have been a useful experiment, the results are in. it s a failure as measured on the liberty scale or the economic scale. i mean, it s a disaster for them. and he should call it that
reporter: mr. cain, mr. cain, jim acosta with cnn. are you vowing to stay in the race? we are reassessing and re-evaluating. reporter: are you staying in the race. we re re-evaluating and reassessing. reporter: how soon will you have a in the next several days. cain appeared on fox news. we should point out he routinely refuses to come on this program. somehow de he did find time to down with fox s neil cavuto. on ginger white, why would she say she s known you 13 years, and you say nonam more russ relationship, why would she say, out of the blue, he s not fit to be president? neil, i have no idea unless the people who i believe are putting her up to this maybe that was one of the lines that she was supposed to use. i have no idea. herman cain saying he believes ginger white was put up to it. when asked who put her up to it, take a look. we have no idea who it is, but i just happen to know that the reason that i was trying to help her as a friend fin