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This is a character issue for mitt romney. he pretends to talk like a tea party conservative but hes been really at the trough, hasnt he? romney is nothing but a corporate welfare hog if you look at the facts. you mean to tell me that romney didnt know about the tax breaks and the subsidies that steel dynamics was getting? he didnt know the semantics of the deal and the dichotomy of it all? come on. how can a tea party ever support this guy? one of the reasons mitt romney got rich is because tax...

"war on religion." youre in "the situation room." but first, this just coming in right now at this moment, our brand new poll shows newt gingrich leading the pack in three of the first four states to hold republican presidential contests. with less than a month to go before republicans start voting, newt gingrich has double digit leads in iowa, south carolina, and florida. he trails mitt romney in new hampshire but they still have some competition. ron paul essentially tied with romn...

Defending romneycare. a little bit weaker on immigration, because there are indications that what he said in the past overlaps a bit with what hes now attacking in the gingrich plan. i thought the strongest moment was exactly that sound bite you showed, where he basically tries to change romneycare from something that will injure him into something that shows the best side. the biggest attack on him is not the substance of romneycare, although it is a difficulty he has to deal with, its the char...

hoping to take on the candidate who may pose the greatest challenge to president obama. we are talking about mitt romney. herman cain is live with us here in the situation room this hour. we will talk about what is behind declined in the recent polls. criticism of his 9-9-9 tax plan and much more. im wolf blitzer, youre in the situation room. hes the only candidate whose been consistently at the top of the polls in the volatile republican race for the white house. that has mitt romne...

Tent to be worried about the economy and the vulnerable. women are not going to enjoy the stories about him leaving if they dont know it already. serving his first wife with divorce papers and i believe he told his second wife he was leaving her. she had been the mistress and he told the second wife over the phone, there was a character issue here that the more women get to know him the more its going to be hard to trust him. even if he was giving each and every one of us a big rock from tiffany...

out for the first time about some shocking revelations that cremated remains of american war dead were simply dumped in landfills. im wolf blitzer. im wolf blitzer. youre in "the situation room." -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com it may have been the most awkward 53 seconds of the presidential campaign so far and certainly the most widely seen. texas governor rick perrys brain freeze during last nights republican presidential debate was the most viewed video on youtube in the uni...

>> you know -- >> anything? >> thats hard for me to say. i cant say whats inside of the man -- >> but can you think of, knowing him -- youre a skeptic, so try hard for a minute. can you think of a single thing he would give up the presidency for as a matter of principle? id rather have this principle to heart than be president? >> honestly, i dont know the man. if i had to come up with one thing, i would probably say he seems like a good family man, and i think he would do -- >> well, were not a...

And i think were going to see in the next round of polls and his next trip to iowa at the end of this week whether voters are still having the same response to him that they did a week ago. >> do you think theres a character issue here, meaning, like, does it say hes a good ç guy or a bad guy as opposed to, he certainly did something that caused people to bring these allegations. would you say youre sure? is there an undercurrent of a story that reporters havent reported yet that suggests a re...

Had two full days to clear up the questions surrounding this story. and i think as you detailed just now, he has left in a lot of ways more questions than answers. so i think until we get some more clarity on exactly what kind of settlement he may have been aware of or why he first said he wasnt aware of one, then later sort of miraculous remembered that he was aware of some financial details -- >> yeq but let me get to a tougher point. let me ask you a tougher point as a journalist. i know tha...

he did. want to take sides on other ohio questions, one on health care, perhaps. hes a flip-flopper should have been more careful. his critics suggest romney was noncommittal not because he was confused, but because polls now show a majority of ohioans oppose the measure and ohio will be a critical fall 2012 battleground. to those critics, a change of expediency on par with romneys explanation of why he fired for lawn care company. now, romneys advantage in this race is real, very re...