of political science experiment unfold before our eyes? brian jones is a republican strategist and former communications director for the republican national committee and lois romano writes for newsweek and the daily beast. i want to start with it all began with a tweet. let s start with a tweet, august 18th, jon huntsman, to be clear i believe in evolution and trust scientists on global warming, call me crazy. is he trying to seize the truth-telling broker that tim pawlenty was going earlier in this rails before he got out? is there space in our republican primary right now for what jon huntsman is selling? that s what he s trying to do. there s obviously no room on the right. that space is already taken. going offer romney s voters, because he thinks romney s support is a little soft, and he s saying, hey, look at me, you ve got fringes on either side, i m not a nut. i can win a general election. and, brian, you have friends all over the republican party. you have friends in t
that you think is a platitude. someone in the room said and it was me you should balanced budget amendment we should spend less than we take in. the balanced budget amendment do you have a question? and let me answer your question. you had your turn, madam, let me have mine. listen, i ll give you the microphone in a moment, but let me complete. i m sorry, it s my turn. let me speak, then you get to speak, okay? that s a preview of what you can expect in this political panel. mika henderson and nathan gonzalez is the deputy editor of the rothlynnburg political report. and mitt romney rather than saying let me finish, says let me complete. who does that? let s tuck about the gallup poll, rick perry 29%, mitt romney, 17%, ron paul also
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strength of rick perry? i think that, you know, it does start with the first, iowa, and new hampshire, but it s all about momentum and if he can stay in the game, you know, stay in the game against bachmann in iowa and mitt romney in new hampshire, and get to the south where he s stronger, i think that would be key. mike huckabee even though after he lost florida and the nomination was over in 2008, he won a bunch of southern states. i want to play sound, someone last night asked mitt romney would you consider yourself the front-runner for the nomination. here s what he had to say, and we ll come back and talk about it. i m following the strategy i ve had and that we ve laid out from the very beginning. and the field is still fluid. they re going to be potentially other candidates. i heard today george pataki s thinking of getting in. i heard that potentially i saw karl rove thought sarah palin might be getting in. maybe when the field narrows down to two or three, we ll spend mo
the front runner for the nomination? just one of the guys running. just one of the guys running. my favorite part about that is the pataki boomlet, watch out for pataki. how long can mitt romney get away with this? he s been the front-runner since a year, he s been the leader in money, the leader in polling up until now. how long can he stay just one of the guys? doesn t he have to either embrace the front-runner thing or deal with the fact that he is i think he s already struggling with it. look what happened in iowa when he said, corporations are people, too, my friends and now the exchange in new hampshire which he was really knocked off his guard there. he is already struggling with the fact that he s no longer in the mittness protection program. it s fascinating to go back before i started the let me complete, mitt romney has been running for president for a long time now, but there s still an awkwardness on the campaign trail. is that fair? yes. i will say when i see