he might have to drop out. he is gaining in the polls. he is raising more money as a result of his problems. the next couple days are supercritical for rick perry. do people stick with him. yes, this is human nature gap. doesn t represent the totalitity of his candidacy or will this be a scenario, people are like, last strike, last life teen, you re lifeline, you re out. martha: when this happens it sucks all the air out of the room in terms of conversation about everything else that happened. i want to take a look at what most of the pundits and most of the folks that watch this stuff saying was an treex extremely good moment for mitt romney and get your thoughts on that. watch this. married to the same woman for, excuse me, i will get in trouble, for 42 years. i ve been in the same church my entire life. if i m president of the united states, i will be true to my family, to my faith on to our country and i will never apologize for the united states of america. that s my belief. [
still, there is this attention on newt gingrich after some positive media, including a wall street journal editorial that said he could win the nomination. martha: interesting. let s play a bit of romney because he was fighting for attention in a way with everything else that was going on, but this is seen as one of his best moment last night. let s check it out. i think people understand that i m a man of steadiness and constancy, i don t think you re going to find someone who has more of those contributes that i do. i ve been married to the same woman for excuse me, i get in trouble. for 42 years. i ve been in the same church my entire life. i worked at one company, bain, for 25 years. and i left that to go off and help save the olympic games. i think it s outrageous that the obama campaign continues to push this idea, when you have in the obama administration the most political presidency we ve seen in modern history. they re actually deciding when to pull out of afghanistan bas
find anybody with thomore of th attributes than i do. i ve been married for the same woman for 42 years, i ve been in the same church my entire life, i ve worked at one company, bain, for 25 years, and i left that to go off and help save the olympic games. i think it s outrageous that the obama campaign continues to push this idea when you have in the obama administration the most political presidency we ve seen in modern history. they re actually deciding when to pull out of afghanistan based on politics. so mitt romney, looking so dominant. you know, i remember talking to a senior republican in the party who said you cannot underestimate the importance of having run for the presidency before. and mitt romney is a candidate who looks like he s done this before, and he s learned from it. these debates in this cycle which have had such a big impact have been very, very strong for mitt romney. the constancy he talks about is
the park last night. he was so strong from the beginning of the debate to the end of the debate. and now, you know, rick perry being very human with this gaffe overshadows romney s really spectacular performance. let s go to mitt romney. and the first thing that he defended himself on as one of the key things that people talk about with him, and that is flip-flopping. here s what he did. john, i think people know me pretty well, particularly in this state, in the state of massachusetts, new hampshire, close by, utah where i served in the olympics. people understand i m a man of steadiness and consistency. i ve been married for the same woman for excuse me, for 42 years. i ve been in the same church my entire life. i worked at one company, bain for 25 years and i left that to
prevail. although really, on the books, he s got a lot of what would ordinarily be fatal weaknesses. you know, there used to be a phrase in the rules of boxing, you don t hit below the belt. i m not sure where the belt is anymore. look at some of these attacks on gingrich right now. the first attack on gingrich was religion yesterday in that romney add, highlighting romney s consistency in his faith. take a look at this surprisingly, i think, serious mistake by romney, venturing mistake by romney, venturing into the issue of religion. i think people understand that i m a man of steadiness and constancy. i don t think you re going to find somebody who has more of those attributes than i do. i ve been married to the same woman for 25 oh, excuse me, i ll get in trouble, for 42 years. i ve been in the same church my entire life. i worked at one company, bain, for 25 years, and i left that to go off and help save the olympic