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Welcome back to "hardball." weve spent most of the show tonight talking about the republican versus republican fight, but ultimately, the winner is going to take on the guy living at 1600 pennsylvania avenue, whose team is watching everything, waiting and scheming. so lets bring in the "hardball" strategist for the first time in 2012 to talk about how the president might be gaming the big race coming up. joining me now is democratic strategist steve mcmahon and republican strategist todd harris....

Welcome back to "hardball." weve spent most of the show tonight talking about the republican versus republican fight, but ultimately, the winner is going to take on the guy living at 1600 pennsylvania avenue, whose team is watching everything, waiting and scheming. so lets bring in the "hardball" strategist for the first time in 2012 to talk about how the president might be gaming the big race coming up. joining me now is democratic strategist steve mcmahon and republican strategist todd harris....

>> sure. >> so thats where -- >> wheres he on that? wheres santorum on that? on what you just said? >> im sorry? >> wheres santorum on what you just said? did he agree with your right to do what you just said? to have your own orientation and to act on it? >> i believe senator santorum believes in that. where we disagree with is he believes, obviously, i should not have the right to marry, and i fundamentally disagree with him on that. >> no, doesnt he go further and say that you should not be a...

That, i would never work for him. this is ridiculous. this is absolutely ridiculous. >> youre in a good position, robert, to explicate him on television. im glad youre a guest. you seem to agree that he has constitutional differences with liberals, obviously, on the right to privacy. hes more with judge bjork on that. you argue that hes not anti-gay in terms of identity. where is his disagreement with the gay community? why do they really go after him all the time? whats the issue there? >> beca...

Im not working for him. >> okay, well, that said, lets take a look at the head-to-head matchups with the top tier of republican candidates.with mitt romney. basically 9 president beats newt gingrich handily by nine points. beats ron paul by eight points. there hasnt been enough polling on president obama. and rick santorum, head to head. so given all that, including the shocking fact, todd, that ron pauls within eight points of president obama, which is an amazing revolting development as we use...

And let me be very clear about this, because this is something thats very personal to me. if, in fact, i ever heard him say anything like that, if in fact i ever thought he thought that, i would never work for him. this is ridiculous. this is absolutely ridiculous. >> youre in a good position, robert, to explicate him on television. im glad youre a guest. you seem to agree that he has constitutional differences with liberals, obviously, on the right to privacy. hes more with judge bjork on that....

>> no, okay. romney is really benefiting, i think, the messages they have -- romney has everything. he has tons of money. these people dont have opposition research to say, heres something new about romney. all this stuff, new hampshire voters have heard this stuff all year. >> i was struck by something new the other day, which is that the massachusetts health care plan does include coverage for abortion services, which did surprise a lot of us. >> thats a good example. im not sure new hampshire...

Welcome back to "hardball." weve spent most of the show tonight talking about the republican versus republican fight, but ultimately, the winner is going to take on the guy living at 1600 pennsylvania avenue, whose team is watching everything, waiting and scheming. so lets bring in the "hardball" strategist for the first time in 2012 to talk about how the president might be gaming the big race coming up. joining me now is democratic strategist steve mcmahon and republican strategist todd harris....

Leadershipprove this message. >> you know, that seemalmost off message for newt, because hes so much involved in the intramural fisticuffs now with romney. its so personal, and heres an objective case for newt gingrich, when, in fact, all you hear from him is, screw romney. >> i think its a decent ad, but i dont think theres enough points behind it. its not on boston tv. theres not enough points behind it to drive a message. >> repeat performances? >> right. i thought i could say stuff like poin...

On that or be a multiple choice. thank you very much. >> you can go back to youtube and look at what i said in 1994. i never said i was pro-choice. my position was effectively pro-choice. >> wow. the obama camp might just take a look at the bit of news clips. next up, pointing fingers. some confusion on tuesday night when jon huntsman became the unlikely target of a tweet from ron paul. during the iowa caucus vote, the tweet said, quote, "we found your one iowa voter. hes in dug something precin...