with debates and no real campaign mechanics, he s conducted a surge when you want to have one near the iowa process. though i d be very surprised if he s the nominee. ed gillespie, what is the theory of the case for an anti-romney candidacy? what is the package you ve got to put together? i think it s, for those who are concerned on the conservative side of the primary electorate, which is the vast majority of the republican primary voters, that governor romney is not consistently conservative enough. so if newt gingrich can demonstrate that he would be conservative on these issues, more conservative than governor romney would be and he could consolidate, you know, the perry vote, and the bachmann vote and the others, that that would be, you know, could give him a shot at the nomination. i think it s a legitimate theory. one thing about it, though, this process is different for republicans this time. in that we re going to have proportional delegate allocation throughout a lot of o
i do not agree with the way he handled it for the following reason. no, that s a different one. dee dee, if foreign policy were the dominant issue for republican primary voters that may be, you know, the end of the campaign. it s not. he s still hanging in. well, but his support is declining in the reuters poll. he s down eight points. these things sometimes take awhile to catch up with voters. but i think the sexual harassment charges opened him up to deeper scrutiny. these kinds of things, i think, are ultimately disqualifying. you cannot have a president who says things like i m going to be elected to lead, not read. as if you don t need to be able to read and to listen and to do all the things presidents can do. i think he s his 15 minutes have now passed and newt gingrich has ascended. but his 15 minutes only lasted what, like four weeks, five weeks? so that tells us it s entirely possible we could be on to the next republican by the time the iowa caucus is on january 3rd. a
third place finnish iowa. any kind of secret campaign is now not so secret. but the hand is still on the throttle and with perry diminishing, if the ads don t buy perry back, romney may not be able to invest all the way in iowa. new hampshire senator ayotte key endorsement there. dee dee myers, want to ask you about occupy wall street. we talked about these pictures out of davis in northern california with protesters being hit by pepper spray by the police. and of course, just you ve seen the movement from new york and around the country. is there an identifiable movement still? is there a message that s actually going to resonate for democrats in 2012? i think the movement is amorphous and unclear where it s going. i think there is a message coming out. all of a sudden we re talking about the huge growth in inequality in this country over the last 30 years. how all the benefits for 30 years have gone to the richest of the rich. the top 1% have seen income growth 300% while the bot
the politics on both sides, for republicans and for the president, had to take a hit after another failure. no? i think probably. i think, you know, approval rating for congress will go down. the approval rating for the president will go down. i think this will be seen this will reinforce an era of a lack of leadership on the president s part. he literally phoned in a call to the chairs of the committee, was not engaged at all, and i think they both take a hit on this. pushes the debate into the presidential election where it probably belongs. let s look at our trend tracker here. gingrich brushes off baggage. he s got that new website that we talked about already. the iowa religious forum. and it gets to the point about whether mike murphy, mitt romney, is going to make a play in iowa. governor brand says he better. governor brand needs him to. we ve got to keep the franchise of the iowa caucus alive. i think there s one number in the race which is important, rick perry s nega
process works. my point is, you know gingrich. do you think he can get the nomination? i don t know whether he can. and i think one of the things that this demonstrates is that you do have a group of republican candidates who are united around one principle, and that is that another four years of barack obama as president would be very harmful to this country. i want to ask you this, the occupy wall street movement, and protests around the country, have become a political issue. and as we talked about, income inequality, we talk about america s debt, this was the scene in northern california, u.c. davis, pepper spray being used an protesters. newt gingrich was very critical of this moment. i want to play something he said and ask for your view on it. this was newt gingrich in iowa. all of the occupy movement starts with the premise that we all owe them everything. they take over a public park they didn t pay for. to go nearby to use bathrooms they didn t pay for. to beg for foo