top now of the gop field. how far have we come on this weekend that we do dedicate the martin luther king jr. memorial here in washington? and let me finish tonight with a call to action to those protesting on wall street. get something done. we start with the rise of herman cain. david corn s an msnbc political analyst and mother jones magazine s washington bureau chief, and jonathan martin is senior political reporter for politico. gentleman, i want to know how this ends for this fellow, herman cain, who s come out of nowhere. you re chuckling, but let me raise a couple of questions here. i m going to give you a number of questions, the scenario. this guy keeps going up. he s ahead now in south carolina. he s ahead now in florida. he s ahead of the field against a guy who can t do anything but flatline. mitt romney won t get above 23. he stays right there, like a dead guy, politically. whereas cain keeps going up. my question to you, if cain can even hold second place to romney
but romney support into real campaign that actually wins caucuses and primaries? plus, here s a provocative headline we saw today, will mitt romney kill the tea party? conservatives winced at the idea of the born-again conservative romney as the republican nominee, and there s some talk of a third-party challenge to him. on the other side of the political spectrum are the occupy wall street protests, are they real? is there real anger here that can spread throughout the country? author michael lewis joins us on whether the protesters can use that anger to change american hearts and minds. and if you re like me and grew up in a time of racial tensions and riots, it s amazing and gratifying to see a country that has a democratic african-american president, and another african-american at the top now of the gop field. how far have we come on this weekend that we do dedicate the martin luther king jr. memorial here in washington. and let me finish tonight with a call to action to tho
will he win north carolina? virginia? i don t think so. but i don t think he ll be the nominee. we won t have to worry about haley s prediction. i want to go back to what you were saying. he won t be number one or number two. my argument is this mitt romney is more vulnerable than herman cain as a nominee, because he is very vulnerable with 77% of the party who relentlessly won t support him, even in the polls. he s got a problem. it might be the religion problem, i don t think so opinion i think it s the ideological problem. they don t trust him as a conservative. whereas herman cain, everything he s done has said, i am a conservative. and you think it s going to be going through the weeds of his economic program that s going to kill him. i think he can t sustain any scrutiny on his program or anything else, even for republican primary voters. let s take a look at him. here is haley barbour and what he had to say on laura ingraham s radio show after herman cain, about herman c