ordinary folks, when you throw in the fact he has a different religion and he can t relate to them either in their faith tradition, it just adds another obstacle. you might be right but i looked at some of the exit surveys for tennessee in particular where three-quarters of the folks were saying i need somebody like me when it comes to religion to vote for them. i say it s not a theocracy, it s a democracy i think a more skilled politician could pull it off. he should have confronted this spot on in the midst of the con interetraception debate. show a little courage. say it s a little out of control. let me show you the new santorum super pac that seems to go after both opponents. how can mitt romney or newt gingrich beat barack obama when on the vital decisions they re not much different? like obama, gingrich supported individual health insurance mandates and lobbied for freddie mac. mitt created romney care. what do you make of it? i think it s an effective attack.
trying to get the top spot. reporter: herman cain got more votes than mitt romney and rick perry behind. perry and romney were in a close third. some are calling this a fluke. of course not cane he says it s time that people stop viewing this as a two-man race. in florida these were delegates making the call. they were making the call based upon who they saw as the person with the most substance in their message. that s why i believe that i m resonating, and the establishment and awful these other people, sooner or later they ll have to get out of denial and recognize that my message is what is resonating with the people who are going to actually cast the votes. reporter: today the perry campaign is on the attack put out a new web video pointing out romney s position on health insurance mandates and how romney changed the wording on
of the unpopular pieces, for example, health insurance mandates, taxes on businesses, some of those positions that they don t like and they know some democrats don t like as well. and maybe they can try to take it apart bit by bit. the other thing is building a political argument. obviously, 2012 isn t that far away and they want to keep building momentum, to build opposition to this law, and that will help fuel their efforts to try to win the senate and the white house in two years. jon: a lot of democrats are saying publicly and privately that they think republicans are going to shoot themselves in the foot by this focus on dismantling health care. is there any worry about that amongst republican? well, certainly they don t want to overreach. one of the arguments against democrats, when obama came into office, is that they spent so much time trying to pass health care reform in the first place and that really there were other things to worry about. obviously, economy is not where p
they used to nibble around the constitution. now they re stabbing at the heart of it. right now, a lot of what motivates me to be here is the recent constitutional violations, the health insurance mandates. there is no justification in the constitution, nowhere in the constitution does it give power to the federal government to bail out companies that are deemed too big to fail. a right unexercised is a right lost. rights, like muscles, atrophy if not used. so fringe or part of the bigger picture of disconnect and distrust? with me tonight cornell voucher, gloria borger and in atlanta, erick erickson of the popular conservative blog redstate.com. most of those in attendance leaned right. they would say they were part of the right or center of the community. but their disdain for george bush and the bank bailouts,
debating health care now. in idaho, the very first state to pass a law against proposed health insurance mandates. specifically, the new law requiring the state s attorney general to sue congress if it passes a bill that requires everybody to buy such insurance. now the state s governor saying it protects folks in idaho from turning over a part of their life to government control. but, the state director for aarp says it will not help the folks in the state who are really hurting now. quote: as many as 37 other states are considering similar legislation, legal experts say it s mostly symbolic because federal laws supersede state laws. well, three minutes left to weigh in on bret baier s exclusive interview with president obama.