of these issues in turn, but one more process question about just the campaign. you said in your press conference last night that you want to make this a definitional campaign to disqualify romney in the minds of conservatives. what specifically do you mean and how do you do that? well, i think if you look at his record as governor, it s very clear. he was proabortion and progun control and protax increase, and ended up third from the bottom in job creation, and 48,000 manufacturing jobs left because the combination of romneycare and tax increases made him a very weak governor in terms of job creation. the challenge is to say do you really want to go into a fall election with a moderate candidate. the last two teams we had a moderate, we lost badly. a conservative candidate can offer a greater contrast with president obama, and offer a much bigger difference, and i am
more process question about just the campaign. you said in your press conference last night that you want to make this a definitional campaign to disqualify romney in the minds of conservatives. what specifically do you mean and how do you do that? well, i think if you look at his record as governor, it s very clear. he was proabortion and progun control and protax increase, and ended up third from the bottom in job creation, and 48,000 manufacturing jobs left because the combination of romneycare and tax increases made him a very weak governor in terms of job creation. the challenge is to say do you really want to go into a fall election with a moderate candidate. the last two teams we had a moderate, we lost badly. a conservative candidate can offer a greater contrast with president obama, and offer a much bigger difference, and i am prepared, for example, to talk about young people having the
so i think that there are very large issues at stake, and my goal is to communicate those issues and get them out there. i want to come back to each of these issues in turn, but one more process question about just the campaign. you said in your press conference last night that you want to make this a definitional campaign to disqualify romney in the minds of conservatives. what specifically do you mean and how do you do that? well, i think if you look at his record as governor, it s very clear. he was proabortion and progun control and protax increase, and ended up third from the bottom in job creation, and 48,000 manufacturing jobs left because the combination of romneycare and tax increases made him a very weak governor in terms of job creation. the challenge is to say do you really want to go into a fall election with a moderate candidate. the last two teams we had a
he arrived with a swagger fresh off his impressive south carolina victory but what a difference nine days have made for newt gingrich in florida. on this, the eve of the state s closely-watched primary, gingrich is facing an all-out assault from mitt romney formidable operation in florida. joe johns is seeing it first hand and he had a one-on-one interview with newt gingrich earlier in the day and we ll see that at the bottom of the hour. mean time, joe, 15 hours until the polls open. what s the latest? well, wolf, it has been a very hectic 24 hours for the gingrich campaign and a very different picture of the races starting to emerge since gingrich took the palmetto state by storm. this was a far cry from his big chilling in south carolina where former georgia congressman, newt gingrich, got the favorite son of the south treatment. in florida his campaign came under attack from every direction imaginable. starting with a massive television advertising campaign that gingr