seen herman cain up there in new hampshire at all? i ve seen a lot of romney posters. i was hanging out with poor jon huntsman today who is just amazed that s two of you. there were 55 of us, but i think a lot of them were paid to be there. but poor jon huntsman, two times a governor, ambassador to china, terrific resume and record, and he s being topped by the pizza man. he can t believe it. when you mentioned peter sellers, i was thinking of being there, the movie. i was thinking, this guy has just talked himself into something big. over the weekend, cain took heat for these comments about an electric fence running along the mexican border. he later said he was joking, but you decide. let s watch. we ll have a real fence, 20 feet high, with barbed wire, electrified. with a sign on the other side that says it can kill you. well, maybe that should be on the sign of his presidential campaign. yesterday he asked about those comments that first he again said he was jokin
poll numbers, is demanding to be viewed as a credible contender for the gop nomination, cain s greatest peril is that primary rivals journalists and the political world broadly will grant that wish. very little in recent days suggests that cain is adequately prepared for the coming test on his understanding of foreign policy, on his advisers, and the origin of his most provocative ideas. and not to put too fine a point on it, on whether he has a factual command of issues equal to what would be expected of the typical congressional candidate. dana, i was stunned and i will remain stunned, how somebody running for president of the united states in the wake of this disastrous war in iraq would not know what the phrase neocon or neo conservative, it was a great tribute to david gregory, our colleague, to put the question to him. it was no tribute to him that this guy has not been listening to the american debate over the war and the philosophical argument for that war from day