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But that isn t the reason john mccain lost the race. john mccain lost the election fundamentally because we lost the middle of the electorate. and at the end of the day, if you look at the president s poll numbers right now in the mid-40s that middle of the elector vat up for grabs and i just think it denies lodgic that newt gingrich would be the person that would be able to appeal into the middle of the electorate, given his record, given his do you need the activists? don t the activists make a big difference? at the end of the day what will drive enthusiasm among those activists is is for a candidate that will defeat president obama and when john mccain stepped out onto the stage at the republican convention, he was greeted with enthusia enthusiastic, loud, robust applause, as will mitt romney if he is the nominee of the party. and i think at the end of the day, what will excite people is the prospect of being able to take back the white house. and so, i don t think on the n ....
Romney and that newt gingrich can be the guy who can win why couldn t he be the guy who coalesced them? personally i don t think newt can win the south as well as santorum could because of the conservative base and his track record. i mean, these ads we were talking about earlier, i mean sooner or later newt is going to do a newt. a lot of that stuff that was in the super pac ads, it s baggage stuff. but moving forward for santorum, this is great news for him tonight. now will the capitulation of a couple other conservatives help? would the old conservatives who hold a lot of money embrace rick santorum? they can t stand romney. he told me not mitt now or ever. there will be a constituency of people out there that rally around the alternative to mitt romney. you saw it absolutely in 2008 with senator mccain. ironically a lot of those people were rallying to mitt romney and endorsed him as the conservative. didn t make a lick of ....
And here is the democratic party and president obama speaking about income inequality, talking about the middle class, the working folk of america. who s doing that in iowa? rick santorum. rick santorum is talking to the economic issues of the people of that state and i think that s one of the reasons why what he is doing mitt romney doesn t embody it but he tries to talk about t. well, he can t. he is richer than the bushes that ran or john kerry or john mccain or john edwards. i mean, this guy is at 0.001% of the wealthiest people in america. he runs around talking about how he is unemployed. he runs around talking about how, you know, i m from the middle class. who is he kidding? he runs as a business executive. but see, i think that the real thing, going took steve, i agree with him, that the republicans and mccain lost because they lost the middle, which is why i say it s a good night for democrats, because as long as a santorum is in this race, ....
Of 2011 whether there would be a coal echl scing around somebody not mitt romney. how does it actually work when they make that decision? we talked earlier about what it takes to pressure a candidate oust the race. who brokers these things? no one. presidential campaigns end when they run out of money. if they re going to have that conversation as howard said tonight with michele bachmann it is fundamentally going to be on the back of a dollars and cents equation. we don t have the money to pay staff. we don t have the money to buy airplane tickets. it s time to wrap the set. is that true anymore though in the era of dark money? what you could do is say okay. we ve got, there is a billionaire who wants it to not be mitt romney and the billionaire is willing to put, you know, $750 million on any one of our campaigns on whoever is going to be the nominee. you can t actually move a candidate that money. if you can walk to south carolina you can let, you know, that hundreds of mill ....
Whatever she does. if she changes, pulls out. i do think her endorsement is valuable. and that she has a passionate group of supporters. other than ron paul, i would say the most personally passionate supporters of all the voters taking part in the caucuses tonight were michele bachmann who just ended up not being very many of them. i would agree. on the stump she just lights into newt gingrich, to mitt romney, to ron paul. she basically compares to fidel castro almost. so santorum would certainly be the most likely. i was just watching tamron hall giving us the report. it s great when you see confirmation of what you see. when you go to a ron paul rally and everybody is under 35, everybody is, when you go into a romney event and everybody looks like slightly better off republican, he s doing okay. a business person. a successful person economically. and why are you laughing? i m not. i m just thinking about at the romney rallies i noticed so many ....