no. while it is available, i think we would be those of us who covered this day to day would be stupid not to avail ourselves to it. one of the ideas thursday night with b reporters, younger reporters, ones who didn t necessarily live through early 90s and 2000s, friday night more of the a lister types. hunter you did not go to either of them. you like more of an outsider approach. i would totally rejebt the notion this was not a group of handpicked people meeting with the campaign. it was a group of handpicked people meeting with the campaign. if you were invited, would you have gone? i would go. i do like coming from the outside. i m from brooklyn. i don t report from d.c. i feel like that kind of keeps me away from some of the group think you can get when you re sitting in a group fed talking points and sort of agreeing on them over pasta. hold on. you think they were agreeing over pasta? i do think in my experience there s a lot of reporters who communicate in packs.
of south carolina. plus south carolina s powerful evangelical voting bloc. who will win the lion s share with reverend brad adkins and bob jones iii. everything is up for grabs in my estimation. i m candy crowley. and this is state of the union. over 100 leaders in the social conservative community met in texas for two days and emerged with a single name, rick santorum for president. it is a blow to texas governor rick perry, a born again christian whose political grounding is fiscal and social conservatism. tony perkins, head of the family research council and a major player at the meeting, says perry checks all the boxes except one. the group doesn t think he can win. what they wanted to do is to make sure that the candidate that had the best chance of going forward, securing the nomination, and winning the general election was the candidate they put their support behind. governor rick perry joins me now from myrtle beach, south carolina, where you re telling me
future. romney supporter senator john mccain on the perils and promise of south carolina. plus, south carolina s powerful evangelical voting bloc. who will win the lion s share? with rev right hand brad adkins and bob jones iii. everything is up for grabs in my estimation. i m candy crowley. and this is state of the union. over 100 leaders in the social conservative community met in texas for two days and emerged with a single name, rick santorum for president. it is a blow to texas governor rick perry, a born-again christian whose political grounding is fiscal and social conservatism. tony perkins, head of the family research council and a major player at the meeting, says perry checks all the boxes except one, but he doesn t think he can win. what they wanted to do was make sure that the candidate that had the best chance of going forward of securing the nomination and winning the general election were the candidate they put their support behind. governor ri