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to have a candidate who stands firmly on the rock of freedom, not on the sands of an etch a sketch toy. [ applause ] all right. capehart has something to say. it s nothing earth shattering. but the interesting thing here about mitt romney, every time he wins a major victory and he should be taking that victory lap, something always happens that veers him off course and he ends up talking about something that he really doesn t want to be talking about. remember when he did the interview, and he said i don t really care about poor people. that was right after i think he won florida. ok. and there s one other that i can t remember. but if he s going to be the republican nominee, the republican voters should be a little worried that what else is he going to do during the general election. jonathan, that s a great point. imagine what the guy is going to say because you re right, he wins florida. that s huge. and he starts talking about not
tabloids, and the fan base. boy, it s going to be a big, big fun story to cover. the jets can spin it any way they want. this is not a vote of confidence for mark sanchez. the back page of the new york post, ivan says, no ring circus. jets are clowns for bringing tebow into the mix. also, the greatest jet of them all, joe namath, was on the radio here in new york city yesterday talking about this tim tebow trade. listen to what he said. i just am sorry. i do not agree with this situation. i can t agree with it. i just think it s a publicity stunt. i really think it s wrong. i can t go for it. listen, if you lose joe namath in jets nation, that s not a good thing, ivan carter. it s interesting, but the jets haven t won a super bowl since joe namath. it s been a long time. so the question is, were they that good last year? no. was sanchez that good last year? no. if tebow can help you, and he did show an ability to move the
12-point lead, and that comes on the heels of a poll taken, i think, on monday showing santorum with a double-digit lead. santorum s in good shape in louisiana, and as karl just mentioned, romney s really not spending a lot of resources there, not really contesting that. he s focused more on the next set of primaries which are coming up on april 3rd which includes the district of columbia, maryland and wisconsin where at least in the first two contests he s positioned to do very well. jon: well, we just had up your real clear politics average from louisiana where, as you said, romney i m sorry, santorum is in first place, and, you know, coming on the heels of this etch a sketch thing, another headline that says santorum wins, you know, a southern state. that s not going to be good for the romney campaign. no, exactly. i mean, the main thing about this etch a sketch gaffe yesterday is that it totally obliterated the news of, you know, romney s big win, double-digit, solid victory he
alive. they are trying to get at him and at this point they don t even know where they haven t heard from him for hours. so who knows. but give us the big picture on this story. as gripped as we are in the conversation we just had about trayvon martin in this story, france is gripped by mohammed merah, a french citizen of algerian defense. this is scary for the social fabric of france and potentially scary for the social fabric here. france is a country now of a growing number of muslim citizens of algerian and other descent. and this injects into everyone s mind the idea, oh, that person is arab one way or another, algerian, what have you, might he do something like this? this is the kind of thing that is corrosive to put it bluntly for any society. it s what s happening in france. this is a guy who was radicalized apparently by the internet. he made some trips over to the middle east, to pakistan, what have you. he comes back. and apparently, he does this