essentially the speech last night was saying i cannot win, everybody, but i will put a blow torch to mitt romney every day, i will chew him up in the debate. santorum can talk about the the economic plan. that the wall street journal gave kudos to this weekend. blue collar voters. santorum has perfect foil in gingrich. he wins by having him go after him. eric: so what happens with romney? hold it. what happens to romney if newt and santorum hit iowa? positive and negative. dana: he continues as he has been. their campaign is saying it s not like we haven t been attacked. we have been the front runner for year. of course we ve been attacked. remember bret baier asked him about healthcare one of the times we thought you re not ready for that? you are still testy about it? wait until president obama gets ahold of you. but another person we haven t talked about is rick perry. he came in fourth fifth.
andrea: hell have no fury like a speaker scorned. he is saying he is upset about what happened in iowa. essentially the speech last night was saying i cannot win, everybody, but i will put a blow torch to mitt romney every day, i will chew him up in the debate. santorum can talk about the the economic plan. that the wall street journal gave kudos to this weekend. blue collar voters. santorum has perfect foil in gingrich. he wins by having him go after him. eric: so what happens with romney? hold it. what happens to romney if newt and santorum hit iowa? positive and negative. dana: he continues as he has been. their campaign is saying it s not like we haven t been attacked. we have been the front runner for year. of course we ve been attacked. remember bret baier asked him about healthcare one of the times we thought you re not ready for that? you are still testy about it?
group of punks. andrea: his zero percent tax on manufacturers will help him with the union workers, the reagan democrats. santorum understands that demographic better than anybody. mitt romney can get the ceos, but santorum has campaigned in the blue collar districts. i would point out looking at the map today. ohio, iowa state we focused on, obama is down. he is down big-time. bob: the other thing i ll say about it kimberly: personable, though. bob: about romney, too, he does not have he has a firm base of support. but if newt attacks him too hard, two things happen. you draw support off of your candidate or reinforce what you ve got. newt is not the guy that is a reinforcing mechanism. be careful if i were him. andrea: maybe romney should extend the olive leaf. bob: i was told to take a tease and apologize to wal-mart. i wouldn t do it for a minute. what do obama and democrats have to say about the g.o.p. race? we ll tell you.
him with the union workers, the reagan democrats. santorum understands that demographic better than anybody. mitt romney can get the ceos, but santorum has campaigned in the blue collar districts. i would point out looking at the map today. ohio, iowa state we focused on, obama is down. he is down big-time. bob: the other thing i ll say about it kimberly: personable, though. bob: about romney, too, he does not have he has a firm base of support. but if newt attacks him too hard, two things happen. you draw support off of your candidate or reinforce what you ve got. newt is not the guy that is a reinforcing mechanism. be careful if i were him. andrea: maybe romney should extend the olive leaf. bob: i was told to take a tease and apologize to wal-mart. i wouldn t do it for a minute. what do obama and democrats have to say about the g.o.p. race? we ll tell you. [ male announcer ] feeling like a shadow of your former self?
for late-breaking surge. bob: he has fallen another four or five points. it s begun to catch up to him. the republican base and he is, for example, isolationists. it s something he has been all along. kimberly: they were hitting him and we saw what happened with newt. talk about michele bachmann. she stepped out and suspended the campaign. let s take a listen. last night, the people of iowa spoke. with a very clear voice. so i have decided to stand aside. make no mistake, i ll continue to be a strong voice. i ll continue to stand and fight for the country and for the american people. kimberly: i think she bowed out of this in a graceful way. this is something, she was a class act about it. instead of making it about her, she is trying to think of the good of the party going forward, which is admirable. eric: not only fantastic speech she gave. she bowed out like you said, gracefully and said for the good of the party, i m stepping aside. also for the good of america, we nee