gingrich s super pac reloads for florida. can that level the playing field and the second thing i think when i think of florida is think of the 2010 primary season, one of the things of the movement was the florida gubernatorial primary. rick scott had a ton of money and he was the tea party candidate and he beat a candidate who in a lot of ways was mitt romney. mitt romney has been on air for a while and a lot of money on air. no one at this table or anyone in this country can imagine the free media that newt gingrich will win. especially if he wins the decisive victory. the amount of air time will swamp we re giving him some freeary time right now. we ll be back after the break with more. coming up newt gingrich has designated his daughters as the defenders of his ex-wife s claim about abopen marriage. this is not going away. does newt gingrich need a plan b? we ll discuss that and so much more next on now.
journalistic cover thing, i think it happened just totally spiritless. i see there are piles of money. i ll put my money where my mouth is. newt gingrich will win this primary and i think it s a question that he ll win by double deblgities and it is an astonishing thing. i was with romney last night and to your point, maggie, about vibe. romney s event with nicky haley, about 200 people, tiny, spiritless, generic, weak in every way. gingrich on the battle ship in charleston harbor last night was very tired, but on fire and predicting victory and predicting victory in florida and getting confronted by a heckler who i m convinced they thrashed the heckler that in the end they would vote for them. it was the performance that projected confidence and
space. i do want to pick up on that and talk to the panel here in florida. i have stats out here and romney s cam camp has spent 3.3 million in florida and the super pac has been 4 million and the only other person that spent money is rick santorum at $325,000. if gingrich does pick up south carolina he ll have to work double time to get the kind of money and infrastructure or compete with mitt romney. he s not going get enough infrastructure to compete and there s early voting in florida. that starts today. and so this is actually not coming at a good time for mitt romney in terms of when early voting could be coming and he s never going compete in resources as newt gingrich where the super pacs and we actually talked about this on the show the other day, and super pacs and their importance. i would actually argue a different point the other day. newt gingrich has been the biggest beneficiary of super
on rick perry and there s an incredible restaurant in charleston that is called mccreighedy where you have seven courses and it s $150,000 and i had it friday night and i ll keep the rest to pea my bill. a man who knows how to play the odds. i m putting all my money on newt gingrich. i ll buy a 12-point spread so why not go big and go home and then i ll put my money the herman, the hermanator and rick santorum. that s money you won t see. except until next florida. coming up, bruised and battered, the south carolina primary is not for the faint of heart. how will it compare to 2008? we ll break down the parallels and paradoxes when alex stewart joins us next on now. [ snorin] [ indistinct talking on tv ]
needed to have a couple of things. huckabee s very foolish decision to campaign in michigan and spend money there that he wasted millions of dollars up there in a race he could never win, but if romney had won here you would have seen the same thing happen, but what happened this time is the blueprint. the conservative evangelical and tea party vote is coalescing around gingrich. santorum had not been able surprising me to me was totally able to capitalize on the endorsement out of the social, conservative leaders and allowed gingrich through the debates to lock it up. and i agree with everything he said although rec san tour up was not in this race, so to that extent you have the split, social conservative feel and if romney wins tonight he is the john mccain feel. just quickly, the interesting