that that s what i was supposed to be doing versus you re out of touch, you fire people and then on winners. unclear as to where that s going to go, but you re right. it is funny to have a targets within the republican campaign coming at him. that s what he s saying about that. bring it on. listen to speaker gingrich here. he claims this issue essentially is mitt romney on your side. will he stand up and fight for the middle class as a defining moment in the republican race. oh, i think anybody who believes that a republican candidate is going to get through september and october without axelrod and obama spending a billion dollars on them, if somebody s going to crumble, they better crumble before the nomination. you don t want to end up in september with a nominee who s been untested and can t stand it. that s essentially saying ronald reagan had the 11th
easy to attack. i want individuals to have their own insurance. that means the insurance company will have an incentive to keep you healthy. it also means if you don t like what they do, you can fire them. i like being able to fire people who provide services to me. if someone doesn t give me good service, i want to say i m going to get somebody else to provide that service to me. seven of those words, i like being able to fire people, knocked front-runner romney back on his heels. jim acosta joins from us bedford, new hampshire. i get the bigger context. not so controversial if you listen to it all and hear it out. isn t he supposed to know better? you would think so, john. i was in that room with governor romney when he made those comments. the people listening to him, it was granted a chamber of commerce audience. they didn t really notice this as any sort of gaffe or stumble. but in the context of the narrative that he has been in in the last 24 hours, these were no
charlie crist will keep trying to prosecute this argument but he hasn t found a way. he probably didn t do it soon enough. he should have had others do it. so far, rubio has survived this and has people raising money on his baffle. we re told that as soon as charlie crist becomes an independent, that money is going to pour into marco rubio, even more, because people want to get in his good graces, now that he s clearly the republican candidate. we re told a lot will be big checks, couples maxing out. when a lot of money is pouring in, they have to stand out as best they can. politico s mike allen, thanks for that. we know the 11th xandment, thou shall not attack another republican. do you think crist has been holding back and he s going to attack? he has to attack. it s best if you get somebody else to do the attacking for you. if you do the attacking on another republican, it backfires on you and it s done that to