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Here, fights, plays offense and convince people the values in the political party -- >> that would be rick santorum because hes the only one whos been on here. early on herman cain was here. rick santorum got on here and talked about manufacturing and creating jobs. look, you have to face it. the republican candidates go to fox news. they go to safe haven. they dont want any confrontation whatsoever. >> its hurting them. >> why is it hurting them? >> its hurting them, ed, because a lot of republ...

Pretty apparent that herman cain is in a fix here and, of course, newt gingrich is in no better position, no superior, morally, position, to reprimand him, but at the same time, i think whats interesting here is newts philosophy is get all your stuff out, put it on the table, let it be transparent. you have to celebrate that. i think in herman cains case, as with many republicans and many conservatives, there is the ha veneer of a moral perfectionism but its undercut by all of our humanity becau...

Years. these are the guys who arent paying their fair share. we should restore the old rate. thats my feeling. and if the payroll tax cut expires, 100 million households would see a tax increase. today the republicans finally woke up and said theyd go along with a tax cut for the middle class, but theyre still protecting the .2%. >> i think at the end of the day, theres a lot of sentiment in our conference, clearly a majority of sentiment for continuing the payroll tax relief we enacted a year a...

Offense. the one thing our focus group told us last night they are tired of, theyre tired of hearing like pundits like you talk about how no conservative has laid a glove on mitt romney. they want someone to lay a glove on mitt romney. they feel like if you wont stand up for mitt romney when its in your best interests then you wont stand up for the ed schultz of the world when its in our interest. >> the reason no one has laid a glove on mitt is because mitts support is basically stable at 20% a...

Enough? i have my suspicions that the first story about the accusations was probably planted by one of those party elders because they wanted -- or they understood cains candidacy was very soft. >> does that matter? i mean, you have a line of women that are coming out with accusations. this is the answer that cain gave yesterday about possible future allegations. >> you go through life and you believe that you have some people that are friends and when someone that appears to be a friend turns a...

Pretty apparent that herman cain is in a fix here and, of course, newt gingrich is in no better position, no superior, morally, position, to reprimand him, but at the same time, i think whats interesting here is newts philosophy is get all your stuff out, put it on the table, let it be transparent. you have to celebrate that. i think in herman cains case, as with many republicans and many conservatives, there is th veneer of a moral perfectionism but its undercut by all of our humanity because n...

Enough? i have my suspicions that the first story about the accusations was probably planted by one of those party elders because they wanted -- or they understood cains candidacy was very soft. >> does that matter? i mean, you have a line of women that are coming out with accusations. this is the answer that cain gave yesterday about possible future allegations. >> you go through life and you believe that you have some people that are friends and when someone that appears to be a friend turns a...

>> that would be rick santorum because hes the only one whos been on here. early on herman cain was here. rick santorum got on here and talked about manufacturing and creating jobs. look, you have to face it. the republican candidates go to fox news. they go to safe haven. they dont want any confrontation whatsoever. >> its hurting them. >> why is it hurting them? >> its hurting them, ed, because a lot of republican primary voters, and this is not a knock on fox news, but in general, a lot of re...

All the breaks over the last ten years. these are the guys who arent paying their fair share. we should restore the old rate. thats my feeling. and if the payroll tax cut expires, 100 million households would see a tax increase. today the republicans finally woke up and said theyd go along with a tax cut for the middle class, but theyre still protecting the .2%. >> i think at the end of the day, theres a lot of sentiment in our conference, clearly a majority of sentiment for continuing the payro...

Was bound to go as soon as there was problems. >> i think the quest for that story, itself, is a shallow approach to a broader political landscape. so to speak. so, yeah, i think sam is absolutely right that they wanted that story, that narrative thrust. that trajectory was going to be circumvented by a couple things, first of all, that herman cain wasnt that deep and secondly, he dismissed the necessity to have the experience the president needed like uzbekistan or whatever that is, and to dism...