years ago when santorum was in the senate earmarks were nowhere as radioactive as they are now. john mccain has always been a consistent critic of them. the pennsylvania senator is trailing in the polls here. romney has a huge, huge lead. what all the candidates are doing today and will continue to do tomorrow into this weekend is test out now combat rhetoric. there are going to be two back-to-back debates this weekend, one on saturday and one on sunday. that did not happen in the new hampshire process in the past either. because of that they all know they ll have to look each other in the eye, face-to-face, elbow to elbow and repeat some of these charges for the new hampshire television and national debate audience. jon: a couple of big debates coming up. carl cameron, thank you. jenna: for more on the next phase of the race and will ar what it will take to advance the candidates going forward, dana perino is here. let s go big picture of what
as radioactive as they are now. john mccain has always been a consistent critic of them. the pennsylvania senator is trailing in the polls here. romney has a huge, huge lead. what all the candidates are doing today and will continue to do tomorrow into this weekend is test out now combat rhetoric. there are going to be two back-to-back debates this weekend, one on saturday and one on sunday. that did not happen in the new hampshire process in the past either. because of that they all know they ll have to look each other in the eye, face-to-face, elbow to elbow and repeat some of these charges for the new hampshire television and national debate audience. jon: a couple of big debates coming up. carl cameron, thank you. jenna: for more on the next phase of the race and will ar what it will take to advance the candidates going forward, dana perino is here. let s go big picture of what we re seeing here in the race. what message coming from the
how are you? good to see you. can you hear what he s playing there? i love that we had the subtitle showing music. it s dancing queen. newt gingrich having as his cell phone ring tone abba s dancing queen has been reported in the past. but this is actually the first audio confirmation we have had of dancing queen going off in his pocket and him having to take his phone out and turn it off. newt gingrich s cell phone ring tone is dancing queen by abba. jon huntsman, however, should be thought of less as swedish disco and more as pacific northwest genius grunge. to hear these two go at it oaf here it s almost incredible. you ve got governor romney who called it a fraud in his book no apology. i don t know if that was written by kurt cobain or not. there it is. kurt cobain, all apologies. a nirvana reference. apparently totally lost on that republican debate audience in florida. judge your audience, sir.
apparently totally lost on that republican debate audience in florida. judge your audience, sir. mr. huntsman may be wizard, but that was not a magic moment. mitt romney, in trying to humanize his rather stick figury persona, mitt romney has tried to drop some pop cultural knowledge on his peeps. last time around he blew it with a who let the dogs out thing. with a group of african-american youngsters do we have the who let the dogs out tape? do we still have that? who s got your camera, though? who let the dogs out? who, who? still awkward after all these years. mitt romney s cultural references. who, who. this time around have not been as embarrassing or bordering on scandalous as that one. they ve more just been kind of confirming him as seeming stiff and out of date. there s something special about lakes where you don t get salt on you after you ve been swimming.
they re chalking that up to the awesome fund-raising power of being accused of sexual harassment. it s not just because the republican debate audience in michigan last night distinguished itself by applauding mr. cain when the sexual harassment allegations were raised. no, the reason this is important today is because of the question that s at the root of this whole scandal. did herman cain sexually harass anybody? if herman cain did sexually harass women in the workplace in the past, consider what his campaign lawyer has just done. his attorney has just given an interview to the atlanta journal-constitution in which he says, to any other women who might think about making allegations about mr. cain and sexual harassment, the attorney says, they should think twice. so if herman cain s actually done any of this stuff, if you are a woman out there and you have ever been sexually harass the by herman cain, his campaign is saying shut up, think twice before you say anything about it.