constituency. bret: which helps romney in the end. helps romney and might help perry in the end. if they split a vote as the straight tea party, he could perhaps rise above them and come in second. i mean, this is like three cushion billiards. it s hard to predict. but it depends in the end, i think on whether palin enters the race or not. if she doesn t, as you describe, but if she does it scrambles who is the big challenger to romney. bret: the big issue is who can take on president obama in the general election for most republican voters. here is what the president said in a recent interview. if next november if they feel like i been on their side, is voters and i been working as hard as i can and getting some things done to move us in the right direction, i ll win. if they don t, then i ll lose. that is not to say the other candidate is irrelevant but it does mean i m probably going to win or lose depending on
actually will. one in the new york post a couple of days ago. if she does it becomes a three-way contest to become the anti-romney. she goes head-to-head with bachmann particularly as tea party candidates. they re both favorites and they would be splitting that constituency. bret: which helps romney in the end. helps romney and might help perry in the end. if they split a vote as the straight tea party, he could perhaps rise above them and come in second. i mean, this is like three cushion billiards. it s hard to predict. but it depends in the end, i think on whether palin enters the race or not. if she doesn t, as you describe, but if she does it scrambles who is the big challenger to romney. bret: the big issue is who can take on president obama in the general election for most republican voters. here is what the president said in a recent interview.
they would be splitting that constituency. bret: which helps romney in the end. helps romney and might help perry in the end. if they split a vote as the straight tea party, he could perhaps rise above them and come in second. i mean, this is like three cushion billiards. it s hard to predict. but it depends in the end, i think on whether palin enters the race or not. if she doesn t, as you describe, but if she does it scrambles who is the big challenger to romney. bret: the big issue is who can take on president obama in the general election for most republican voters. here is what the president said in a recent interview. if next november if they feel like i been on their side, is voters and i been working as hard as i can and getting some things done to move us in the right direction, i ll win. if they don t, then i ll lose. that is not to say the other candidate is irrelevant but it does mean i m probably going to win or lose depending on