Last two men left standing. you think that is a big story tonight? action of the others, the second tier? absolutely. i mean as megyn said, this is their last opportunity. if you are rick santorum, you have been to all 99 counties and spent two months, well over 100 events. michele bachmann slightly less, but not a lot less. you just haven t been able to break out of single digits. this is your last big opportunity to attract iowa republican voters to say i am the a terntive, the true conservative. not newt or mitt. bret: you had congressman ron paul on your show today. interesting moment to get to a line of attack and finally got there. take a listen. there was one other issue i found annoying that is he is as aggressive as the military as anybody. he supports all the wars in the middle east, 1,000 times more than i would.
what are you waiting to hear at this debate that might help you decide. as many times as i heard michele bachmann speak, i never felt likevy seen the real her. it s always a political face. i about cried when i started to seeing in the debate performance. i d like to see someone with more executive experience. he could easily go across the aisle. you don t trust him i don t trust him. debate gaffes, they matter. rick, i tell you what. $10,000. the wager offer for mitt romney in saturday debate was noticed. i bet you $5 bucks. the fact he said $10,000 stood out to me. i thought this guy who commonly bets $10,000 to his friends about things? something i couldn t relate to. candidate in the final
Hours of a referendum on newt gingrich s 40 years in public life, it s a disaster for him. bret: right. steve brown s piece talking to folks around here about what they want to see in tonight s debate, a they don t want to see. they point back to tim pawlenty when he went on the attack of congresswoman bachmann in our debate in iowa ahead of the straw poll and they said they didn t like that at all. they don t. it hurts the attacker sometimes even more than the attack. but it still does damage. that is what you see right now with mitt romney. the harder he hits gingrich, he does drive up his own negatives and reinforce it. what choice do other candidates have now? bachmann, santorum, they have to put points on the board. i think that mitt romney s ideal life would be that he doesn t have to go after gingrich a great deal. but some of the other candidates lower in the polls like santorum, like bachmann who are struggling to get some elevation, to be the alternative to romney, th
Debate showdown may be tempted to be aggressive, there is a limit. remember the prestraw poll debate and candidate tim pawlenty going after michele bachmann? it s undisputable fact in congress her record of accomplishment and result is non-existent. the way tim pawlenty went after michele bachmann out of the chute, that was horrible. right off the. desperate. off the get. lost it. the post debate deliberation? how much longer will you go? you only have three weeks left. i didn t make up my mind four years ago. voted at the caucus. you never know. in sioux city, steve brown, fox news. bret: wisconsin voters are trying to kick out governor scott walker. trying to kick him out of office. they say they are close to having enough signatures to force a recall election there. they are angry at the
governor romney in his business career created more jobs than the entire obama cabinet combined. ron paul is steadily rising in the polls. the organization is deep could propel him to upset win. we have more volunteers and a better staff now than we did before. it s coming together. we feel good about it. reporter: perry has been blasting gingrich and romney daily. he added a new attack to the air war before tonight s debate. newt gingrich increased the federal debt trillions of dollars and billions in earmarks. mitt romney raised business taxes 20% in massachusetts. insiders. reporter: michele bachmann who won the iowa straw poll this summer is competing for many of the social conservatives but he is far back in the polls. along with jon huntsman competing in the debate but not in the caucuses. another one to watch tonight