now as unimac and still have probably more than 500 employees by now. romney and bain up ended the company and gutted the workforce. now, they were ready to make a handsome profit. chris: mr. tyler, here is the problem with that account of what happened at unimac and we put up a timeline. let s show it close. bain bought the company in 1998. romney left bain in 1999. you say maybe a little later. bain sold the company in 2004. it was the new owners, the new owners the, a canadian pension fund that shut down the florida plant those folks are talking about in 2005. mitt romney had absolutely nothing to do with the shutting down of unimac. if this document right here shows that mitt romney was part of bain as late as 2001 when said he left in 1999. chris: they didn t sell is until 2004. the workers by the way, i reviewed the entire transcript
costs of manufacturing in this country versus our nine top trading partners we are 20% more expensive. there is no way that we are going be able to keep the jobs from a national security perspective because manufacturing is key to our security to be able to have products that are essential for our national security to be made here in america. but it is also key for wealth creation and particularly wealth creation for the blew collar workers in america. i disagree with those folks. we do need to have a different rate of tax to compete against the chinas and the mexicos. chris: the counter to that, the argument would be that you are picking winners and losers and you are using the tax code to establish an industrial policy. let me give you one other example of this, sir,, if i may. you have a plan as part of your tax plan you would triple the tax credit for children. the wall street journal editorial-page says this. mr. santorum is essentially agreeing with liberals who
correct. i think he is doing better than that. i think it is a sign that gingrich may have hurt himself by this. let s remember this about this whole issue about the alternative to mitt romney and who gets to be that candidate. mitt romney does pretty well among conservatives. conservatives basically like him. there is a gallup poll, an interesting gallup poll out that has been out for several days that asks about acceptability and asks republicans and it broke them down into conservatives and liberals and moderates. mitt romney led the pack acceptable to 59% of conservatives. gingrich was second at about 50% and the rest were behind that. liberals and moderates he also did 59% and everybodies way behind him on that. the idea that you have a conservative element in the gop dead set against romney i think is a fall lacy and that as time goes on the momentum factor that comes from winning even by small margins is likely to build and a lot of conservatives are going to come in his directi
is another abu ghraib and will show the callousness of u.s. soldiers in the world. it is not clear that abu ghraib made that much difference ultimately in the arab world. i think wiebe blowing it up we helped cause that difference. and also it would have been nice if the secretary of defense could have said a few things about the 99% of marines and soldieriers who behaved inn eck emlary way. this ba at iton suffered a lot of deaths and wounded in the tough fighting. instead to go on tv and criticize our own troops i don t think this is a good thing. chris: let me come at this from a different angle. the taliban which i think we all would agree has a terrible record of brutal behavior including beheadings expressed outrage at the video. here is a comment from the spokesman for the taliban. it was despicable and
the economy than the government does. rick tyler bought this film. he didn t make it. he didn t do his homework. he didn t determine the veracity of it. he continues to offer it even though it has been universally discredited. not an examination of mitt romney s record. it is simply fiction and that is the bottom line. chris: we have to leave it there. thank you both for joining us. we ll see how this plays out in south carolina. we want to note we invited speaker gingrich to come on the program today. he turned down our invitation. up next, the republican race heads south and the rest of the field tries to find some way to slow mitt romney s momentum. we will break it down with our sunday panel, when we come right back. i wouldn t do that. pay the check? no, i wouldn t use that single miles credit card. hey, aren t you. shhh. i m researchg a role. today s special. the capital one venture card. you earn double miles on every purchase. impressive. chalk is a lost medium. if you re not