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Pizza? >> yeah. lets get a pizza. how does -- somebody tell me how this huntsman just kind of sling shots through south carolina. this is one of my concerns. im not sure i see his appeal there. even if he was in new hampshire. but, you know. >> and youre a south carolina guy so you know. listen, lets not bury the lead here. the lead is that mitt romney is not acceptable to the conservative base of the republican party according to eric erickson. and i would suggest that if anybody knew more than...

Money. >> herman cain going to hold that press conference today. going heavy into the third person last night. more and more into it. >> always a bad sign. when you start talking about yourself like youre bob dole. >> weve got some fascinating things coming up. we have bill clinton coming up. >> yes. >> joe scarborough will be interviewing bill clinton. joe scarborough in the third person. well also have tina brown and eugene robinson. on the other side, john brought this up, a remarkable red st...

Okay? i cant think of a thing. >> oh, my. >> good morning. its tuesday. >> he cant think of a thing that he would pay gloria allred for. >> with us onset -- >> it is better than better. >> the cain train, pulls through your town. >> the most -- >> how is everybody doing? >> good. >> good. >> a little cranky. >> why are you cranky? >> coffee. >> you dont have coffee? >> wheres the coffee? >> its tough. holy cow. >> just imagine you have coffee. >> visualize coffee. >> welcome to "morning joe" eve...

My guess is 20, 25 years from now you young guys in the front row here, your kids are going to turn to you and say, how did you make it through the obama great recession? theyre going to look back on these years as a very troubled time in america. and how you answer is going to depend in part on what happens about a year from now. so president obama is re-elected. you have a pretty good idea what the four years would look like. now the alternative of course is that you turn on your tv about a ye...

Romney has gained five points since october. in third is newt gingrich with 13% followed by ron paul and texas governor rick perry both with 10%. >> all right. >> lets look at a general election matchup with president obama. cain does not fare so well. >> oh, well. >> trailing the president by 15 points. mitt romney does a little better than cain trailing president obama by 6 points. obamas approval ratings remain unchanged dating back to august with 51% of americans disapproving of the way he i...

Very bright spokesman for that philosophy. >> and the important thing, tina, about the eric erickson post this morning on red state is that he is now saying publicly what conservatives have been saying quietly over the past week or two. when they figured out that herman cain was going to end up like michele bachmann, like sarah palin, like donald trump, like rick perry, that there is going to be nobody coming in a white hat to save the conservative movement. >> absolutely. there was such as gene...

>> he is at 44%, which most incumbent presidents this far along would be very nervous about and yet he is pounding every republican candidate, which, again, just confirms how weak this field is. >> exactly. hes beating them badly. given our economic climate its remarkable, a poll that shows 75% of us think the country is going the wrong way, still believes that he should be president next time around. >> the question is, the conservative republicans, do they stay home assuming romney is the nomi...

Minds, that john this morning brought this -- you said it was the most incredible post youve read from eric erickson. >> yes. i read eric erickson every morning. >> and eric does speak for true blue conservative -- >> he does and in a very articulate and passionate way. whenever you think about his views, he is a very good representative of a certain part of the republican party. this is a demolition job on mitt romney that basically says, he says hes been sitting, reading 200 pages of opo from ...