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focus from his secretly taped remarks, mitt romney woke up to some tough headlines this morning about a week from hell, challenges getting back ontrack, and about his comments costing him precious time. well, he s fighting back. the president s view is one of a larger government. there s a date that just came out today where the president sang he likes redistribution. i disagree. i think a society based upon a government centered nation where government plays a larger and larger role, redistributes money is the wrong course for america. i m joined now by former huckabee campaign manager chip saltsman and democratic strategist chris covinas. good to see both of you. good to be with you. are we making too much of this, chris? no. this is bad. by any objective standards i don t care whether you re democrat or republican if you re in the campaign business this has been a really tough few weeks for the romney campaign. the problem with the tape is it
reorganizes companies, there are layoffs. and the issue of the freddie mac money, gingrich says, well, i ll give that money back if you, you know, restore the jobs that you had as part of bain capital. a lot of conservatives say laying people off of companies to make them stronger is the core of capitalism so gingrich allowed himself a nice retort instead of thinking through what damage that could do. like you said he later regretded it. today i feel like the mitt romney campaign is acting like they are the front-runner. they got a huge endorsement, nikki haley, south carolina governor. she is already on this morning on fox explaining why she did it. today is the day that i am throwing all of my support behind mitt romney for president. why? you know, this was something that when i look at the focus of what every family cares about it s jobs, the economy, and spending. what it comes down to is how do we get every person a job? how do we make sure our economy gets back ontrack?