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Doing well in early states. we should note that. that are out this week. what about the perry campaign coming out and saying, not saying definitively that they are not going to play, but noting that 16 debates over 12 weeks coming up are a lot of debates. then what he said about debates on bill oreillys show. >> i have sympathy for him. we are a little over 60 days to the iowa caucuses. debates are a big waste of time when you want to be on the ground and meet with voters. you have four early st...

What that entailed. i dont see where the prep part came in here. >> joe, going back to your column it says cains flim flap flam or naivete confirms the pizza man is over his head and makes it time for another spin of another spin of republican wheel of misfortune. clearly he is in over his head. >> irony. >> your thought is okay, hes the latest bubble candidate like michele bachmann who runs up in the polls and trump who got good numbers before he admitted he was never running for president and ...

Government posts over the past decade. 921. all totalled, those appointees gave a staggering $17 million to his campaigns and perry collected 6.1 million from the 155 people he appointed to be regents of state universities in texas. are there no restrictions? >> there some, but perry has been really brilliant at putting the state up for sale. he raised about half of all his money from 204 dont ors. the author calls them the central committee. its a bureau way of running a government. the 204 don...

Retract into the collar like a turtle. he doesnt seem to like being there physically. >> you know what this is, chris, its the strategy, its the rope-a-dope strategy without the rope. >> i like that. >> john is absolutely right. you hang a lantern on it. if people are concerned youre not quite ready for primetime, the answer is to give them some reason that you think you are. the answer is not to stop showing up in primetime to prove their points. >> lets do tactics. people tell me theres a coup...

u.s. oil companies, are raking in near record profits, so why are they still getting huge taxpayer subsidies? im wolf blitzer. youre in "the situation room." he skipped the last presidential debate and sidelined himself in iowa saying he wants to focus on the first of the nations primary state. jon huntsman is betting almost everything on new hampshire, but is trail ng the state while romney is enjoying a substantial lead and now, huntsman is joining some of romneys sharpest critics ...

Debates. a campaign spokesman tells fox news that the texas governor will decide on a case by case basis. this comes after the governors admittedly poor performances in recent debates and a sharp drop in the polls all with less than 10 weeks to go before the iowa caucuses. doug mckelway is live in d.c. tonight. doug, skipping the debates. this should come as a big shock to nobody. after all he said he wasnt any good, adam. >> thats true. conventional thinking suggests that maybe it is understand...

>> you know, hes trying to make light of that. on tuesday, perry said maybe doing the debates was a mistake. lets listen, he keeps moving in this direction. >> these debates are set up for nothing more than to tear down the candidates. its pretty hard to be able to sit and lay out your ideas and concepts with a one-minute response. if there was a mistake made, it was probably ever doing one of the -- ever doing one of the campaigns when all theyre interested in stirring it up between the candida...

>> you know, hes trying to make light of that. on tuesday, perry said maybe doing the debates was a mistake. lets listen, he keeps moving in this direction. >> these debates are set up for nothing more than to tear down the candidates. its pretty hard to be able to sit and lay out your ideas and concepts with a one-minute response. if there was a mistake made, it was probably ever doing one of the -- ever doing one of the campaigns when all theyre interested in stirring it up between the candida...

Retract into the collar like a turtle. he doesnt seem to like being there physically. >> you know what this is, chris, its the strategy, its the rope-a-dope strategy without the rope. >> i like that. >> john is absolutely right. you hang a lantern on it. if people are concerned youre not quite ready for primetime, the answer is to give them some reason that you think you are. the answer is not to stop showing up in primetime to prove their points. >> lets do tactics. people tell me theres a coup...

>> yeah, absolutely. and remember the refrain from the critics of these polls is rudy giuliani, fred thompson were ahead in the national polls that the time. they never even, you know, won any of the early states, didnt even place high in many of them. so, you know, national polls are going to go up and down and as herman cain gets more and more scrutiny, youre going to see his numbers get wobbly, i think, unless hes able to really provide substantial answers to the questions about foreign polic...