he can t just be himself. he puts on jeans but you know he s got his suit pants underneath it. can you imagine the debate really out there between jon stewart and mitt romney? that would be something to watch. that s the debate i want to see. it s no secret with the michigan primary coming up in ten days now, romney is going to have to make sure we know he s in his old stomping grounds in that state. it looks like romney might have paged through his old high school yearbook before a rally last night. let s listen to him. i am just delighted to be back in michigan to see some old friends. gosh, i ve got lots of old friends here. there s another guy from my high school. and a gal from there s a lot of high schoolers here. i m just this really does bring back memories. any old girlfriends here? i have to be careful. ann s not here today. don t tell. is that for real? anyway, romney can t bank on the hometown advantage anymore. santorum might just yank michigan out from under him
is that for real? anyway, romney can t bank on the hometown advantage anymore. santorum might just yank michigan out from under him. up next, romney is spending big bucks on negative ads in michigan. he s got to run negative ads. but santorum is fighting back this time. the latest ad war with the hardball strategists. two pros. two mad men will tell us how this is done. can santorum survive the onslaught, the carpet bombing of negative ads against him in michigan? you re watching hardball, only on msnbc. now, with new simpler packaging, robitussin® makes it simple to get the right relief for your symptoms. new simpler packaging, same effective relief. robitussin®. relief made simple.
were, not wealthy, not country clubbers, regular people who vote republican, regular people vote republican. is there a rick santorum volt in the fight or is the republican party, upper middle-class and ones who will win the election? i think, irony is, first i agree with chuck todd. unless some miracle happens and rick santorum wins colorado next week, you know, there is going to be tremendous pressure on him to gou to get out. he will not have money left. he is demographically in terms of his economic message exactly where the type of swing republicans are that you are talking about in pennsylvania, in ohio, to take two absolutely crucial states. rick santorum group in the circumstances knows how to talk to those people, a republican who appeals to them on social issues. romney can t. talks like a democrat on, on economic issues. romney can t do either of those
working poor. the real frustration for conservatives is he is having trouble making it and explaining the basic precepts of conservative. that is why they like newt in a lot of cases even though newt is not a consistent tent conservatism but he can explain ideas behind conserve tim and romney can t. martha: adding to that criticism, what tucker is getting that, is he not nimble and can t talk off-the-cuff and find himself going into these sort of difficult waters at tiles when he does. alan, he says this comment was taken out of context that it does not mean that he is not sensitive to the needs of the very poor. what is your end how about trying to fix the poor? how about make it so we don t have the poor. tucker decides it is obama fault, obama will paint him as patrician. he is painting him as a pa shish patrician. he already said i like firing people. there are other words around the sentences. you don t say that stuff
suggest. we have will cain who is a columnist for the blaze. i like the tweed. thank you. the actual professor though is next to you and that would be the former virginia congressman tom davis is back with us. i said a long good-bye to you yesterday and i m like, oh, he s back. we loved having you. he is also the former chair of the republican house campaign committee. and he teaches political science now. and ron brownstein is the editorial director of the national journal and he is with us as well. let s move on to the state of nevada because the state of florida is over. it is next. the state caucuses are this weekend. mitt romney is going to head west with new momentum after this big win in florida. he won 46% of the vote. newt gingrich was at 32% of the vote. second place sfin anybody. 13% for rick santorum. 7% for ron paul. rick tyler joins us this morning, senior adviser to winning our future pac and former gingrich spokesman. nice to see you, sir. good morni