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Started. mark haleprin, the question is out of florida. and we ve been talking a lot about the negative ads. but newt also hurt himself with two debates. he had two flat debate performances in a row. i think all of us that have followed these guys can understand how you can have one flat debate performance because it is such a brutal process, but expecting to come back that second time, and he was just as flat, just as bad. what are you hearing? what happened? he s clearly tired, and part of what february s going to be about for him is getting better rested. politicians make mistakes when they re tired. he s just he likes to fancy himself as someone who can go all day. he was tired he s 68. and the other thing is, the romney campaign got in his head discombobulated him. he lost badly, but imagine having lost worse given he had about ten days of zero good moments. does newt not have a trusted ....
Competitive with president obama. that s another reason i don t think president obama s path is as easy as others do. i think republicans between these outside groups and between business leaders who are frustrated with the obama administration can essentially make the fund-raising battle a wash over time. that s a much different calculation than people thought six or nine months ago where they felt maybe obama could raise a billion dollars between his campaign and other campaigns run by his friends that used to work for him in the white house. so i think romney is obviously well-positioned in the short-term. you can t completely count out newt. and what newt needs is he needs the anti-establishment conservatives to officially rally around him. he would really need and in short order, sarah palin, rush limbaugh, other conservative leaders that don t like washington conservatives to basically all gather around and say he s our guy. he s the official alternative. jim, he s got sarah ....
That. willie mocked joe long before i piled on. and there s a lot you can work with over there, yet look at you. you re thurston howell. since this is the age of romney and in garb now, i m going to start running $18 million worth 30-second attack ads against mika. we ll finish her off. i m not piling on because i need a ride back to greenwich later. very good. what happened in florida? a week ago, we all heard the press talking about newt s momentum, the polls show newt was ahead, what happened? this was not inevitable. even in an unpredictable year, you run a lot of negative ads, you get the momentum back. romney entered south carolina with more money and with a better organization. he didn t have the momentum in the message. by the end, he had all four. ....
Go back to the night after south carolina. this changes very quickly. romney won new hampshire and he was inevitable, and then south carolina, newt wins and suddenly people think he can win. so, yeah, romney won florida, ran a lot of negative ads. let s see what happens in nevada, ohio, what happens in arizona. i got 20 oh, i ll take it. i m not betting on newt. but it s possible, you since joe s going to lose, i ll take it for him. mitt romney has to close the deal. absolutely. you may want to bring this up, i don t know if it s a human resources issue, the behavior of mike allen in south beach, here s a photograph right here. suspension without pay. we have reporters with edge everywhere. that s tip drill on the right. he was seen what are you saying? i would bring it up in the ....
But a newt surrogate right now. not so with rush limbaugh, though. correct. and a lot of people have been mistakenly saying that rush has gotten behind newt. he s not going there. and i think newt gingrich did more to hurt himself with people like rush limbaugh and other bedrock conservatives with those silly bain attacks a couple of weeks ago. i think we need to e-mail one of our reporters e-mailed rush limbaugh yesterday before the vote and limbaugh said he was undecided on who you re going to vote for. so you re right, if he ended up voting for romney, that would be a huge surprise and big blow to gingrich. gingrich, i do agree damaged himself with the way he went at romney and gave some of these conservatives real pause. and the anti-establishment conservative movement is so spread out, there is no real leader other than maybe sarah palin and newt gingrich and a few others, and that s what ....