right. bill: and then the conservative tea party people who tend to like cain right now. yeah. absolutely. it s a split between the realists or practicing ma test insists on the one hand who, as you rightly say, support romney. and the purists on the other hand, who unconvinced, won t be happy until ronald reagan rises from the dead and hits the campaign trail. those people say that mitt romney is not a principle executive. and they re right. he is not a principle conservative. bill: he s not an idealogue. he s not a principle conservative either. you can make a case that he s not a principled politician given all his flip flops, but the realists, they follow the bill buckley school and that is they want the most conservative viable candidate, somebody who can win. if anybody cares, i m in that camp. the others i have a question for my purist friends out there.
continue to go down, it would destroy our economic capability and as a result, we are now looking at how much in defense we can cut. that s destroying it. you think liberals seek to do that, that that s their mission to destroy the economy? that s the conclusion that i have drawn. bill: also a very interesting look back. mr. cain made a video in 1991 promoting his livelihood back then. pizza. imagine there is no pizza i couldn t if i tried eating all the tacos or kentucky fried bill: definitely an album coming up, you know it. check two. our condolences to the family of race car driver dan weldon, killed in las vegas yesterday.
romney right now. right. bill: and then the conservative tea party people who tend to like cain right now. yeah. absolutely. it s a split between the realists or practicing ma test insists on the one hand who, as you rightly say, support romney. and the purists on the other hand, who unconvinced, won t be happy until ronald reagan rises from the dead and hits the campaign trail. those people say that mitt romney is not a principle executive. and they re right. he is not a principle conservative. bill: he s not an idealogue. he s not a principle conservative either. you can make a case that he s not a principled politician given all his flip flops, but the realists, they follow the bill buckley school and that is they want the most conservative viable candidate, somebody who can win. if anybody cares, i m in that camp. the others i have a question
question really is, if herman cain were to be nominated, he d have a lot more than $5 million. i just think that the money contest says a lot more the real comparison is between him and romney because it seems to me it s fair to wonder whether cain isn t running a kind of tempting campaign in which he has the surface trappings of a real campaign, he s on the debate stage every week with equal billing with the other candidates, equal billing with the supposed front runner, mitt romney. he seems a great guy. he has interesting things to say. but he s not campaigning very much in the early state. he hasn t been in iowa since anybody can remember. i think it s not clear that this lead that he appears to have in the polls, which are to some extent a popularity contest, that s what they re about, will hold up when it gets down to a state by state race where romney looks stronger. bill: can herman cain, in your opinion, build an organization that is in new hampshire and south carolina and
that s the point. if there was one sign with a racist sign, why did they put that in? because it did fit their world view that conservatives were bigots. as a matter of fact, the main street media went for weeks and weeks with a story about how tea partiers allegedly shouted, you know, the word. bill: racial stuff. at black congress people as they were going to vote on health care. so this is not a this is not a shred of evidence to say this happened. here is evidence, we ve just seen evidence of something that we know exists. i d like to see it on the air in some main stream media outlets. bill: you re not going to see it. brit hume and i were discussing the herman cain situation and people say look, mr. cain not a serious player because he s not setting up the infrastructure that he needs to win. others say you re crazy, he s a populist, he s going about it in a different way. but there is a split in the republican party. yes, there is. bill: between the traditionalists