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Rick santorum made a point of saying, i was here in 2008. but come to think of it, i was here many years before that. he was there when he was a senator of a blue state and he was endangered in every election he ran in. mitt romney, was not at c-pac before 200 6. before he gave up on being governor of massachusetts, gave up on the idea of winning in that state. he is saying, im a conservative from massachusetts. >> in 2006 he saw the possibility of him running for president. think thats one of t...

The question is whether he can get above 55%. a real question is now as you mention with sue lowden, a big rural county which is ron paul country came in big for paul and some other returns ive seen. its looking like newt could actually finish in third no matter what kind of spin sue lowden puts on that, that is devastating for him, chris. >> for most people, they go to nevada, las vegas to have a good time and clean fun. some people have another kind of fun. of course, reno is a country that ha...

When -- >> the chief hedging his bets, suggesting he would be as happy with romney. meanwhile, newt gingrich needs some cash to get from here to march 1st. >> about two weeks ago romney called sheldon and he didnt just take the call, he actually talked to romney on the call and even offered romney a bit of strategy and advice. this speaks to howards point. this is someone who is republican and wants to see the republican beat obama. and will be happy to get behind romney if hes the ultimate nomi...

>> jonathan, will he have to pick fights now, serious yard behavior to get mitt romney into a fight as soon as he can in the next several days? >> they are focusing more on obama than they do romney. >> but doing some contrast with romney but having a more solutions-oriented message. look, they realize that hes angry during the course of the last week starting in florida and going through this week. they want to get a more upbeat forward-looking solution for newt here for the next few weeks. the...

Venetian and talked about where they were going to go. not with newt in the room. he has let it be known, adelson has let it be known he gave the money and he didnt get his people out there working for newt gingrich. >> the other guy is trimming. >> and we know, chris, that the hardest thing for newt gingrich to do is to last through february. he cant raise enough money and we know that theres one debate between now and february 29th

Candidate is going to help him. theres not going to be any free debates, right? >> no debates. howard? >> how does newt gingrich try to get attention? how does he get free media during this time? hes going to go to the conservative political action committee meeting near washington in the next week. he and all the other candidates will be there. newt will try to create news in some way. hes down to thats the problem. thats a problem for him. this has always been the problem for mitt. he can only...

The medicare part-d bill, that will add $7 trillion to our national debt. he is the enemy of the republican establishment in washington, d.c., a lot of people will start lining up to kill his campaign that are established republicans in d.c. they can make that argument as well. just like i said last week after new hampshire, gingrich and the rest have to kill romney in south carolina, and now the shoe is on the other foot. newt cannot win coming out of florida or they are all in trouble. that $7...

That, but you have california, indiana, new york, new jersey, oregon and pennsylvania who have filing deadlines that will not have passed until after the florida primary. >> he makes a very good point. >> he makes a great point, but this is not about what the establishment wants. has anyone paid attention to what is happening in the primary. the grassroots activists are making up their mind when they want. they seem to want to coalesce around newt. we dont know whether or not that will really ha...

Tonights debate becomes ever so much more important. with we know that gingrich will come on with a beat up the media strategy. that has worked for him on msnbc, and cnn and on cnbc, he keeps attacking the messenger. >> im a bigger fan of the gallop ratracking poll than mos people. i think its a good approximation of what is going on. this is more about newt going up and yes, romney has dropped but newt is really, really, really surging. when you have a candidate with a 25% favorable and 50% unf...

And the fact is that this housing collapse has absolutely devastated floridas economy. you look not only at the ral realtors you look at the entire industry that helped fuel a remarkable rise in the economy of the bush years. when the cash came, it hit everyone. unemployment hovering around 10%, that is a devastating ad and its devastating if mitt can get newt lined up with bill clinton on what the meaning of "is" is. newt can say what he wants he was paid over a million, and every voter in the ...