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John kerry went through this in 2004. president obama went through this in 2008 during the primaries, so i think these experiences will forge a stronger candidate but there is no doubt this is not the type of week you want to have. a week ago the consensus conventional wisdom among every political reporter, person that works in republican politics, mitt romney would win the south carolina primary and the race would be effectively over. and this has entirely changed over the course of the week and it is hard to imagine scenario where seven days ago you could have pictured having a worse week th...

Neutralize it? >> biggest strength is money, resources, john mccain campaign in the summer of 2007, campaign collapsed. he was flying on the middle seat of southwest airlines up to new hampshire. the entire campaign for john mccain was based on we have to win new hampshire primary. patience is an under-valued strategic virtue in the campaigns. we took advantage of the fight between mike huckabee and mitt romney in iowa, mike huckabee knocked out mitt romney in high wa. that slowed his momentum in new hampshire. john mccain was able to win in new hampshire, because fred thompson stayed in the r...

Not because mitt romney is the front-runner, because mitt romney was ahead or mitt romney had a good campaign. mitt romney winning new hampshire was a foregone conclusion because historically speaking, new hampshire couldn't have been won by anybody other than him. because he's the guy from massachusetts. the guy from massachusetts, whether a republican or democrat, always wins new hampshire. in 2004, john kerry, in 1992, paul songas, michael dukakis, henry cabot lodge, john f. kennedy. when a massachusetts politician is running for president it's a safe bet they will wine in new hampshire. th...

His wealth. >> i like being able to fire me people who provide services to me. corporations are people, my friend. rick, ten thousand bucks. $10,000 bet? >> i'm not in the betting business. >> oh, okay. back in 1967, your father set a ground breaking standard in american politics. he released his tax returns. he released them for not one year, but for 12 years. when he did that, he said this, "one year could be a fluke, perhaps done for show" when you release yours, will you follow your father's example? >> maybe. you know, i don't know how many years i'll release. i'll look at what our docume...

You like to respond to that" the answer was no, duh! seriously, that is how you put it to him? someone will ask him the competent about his arch arch c. i hope this campaign never ends, finds a way to disrupt the space-time continium and go on forever and ever. joining us fresh off the plan from south carolina is gail cullins. you want this to go on forever? >> i sort of want this moment in the south carolina contest to go on forever. i feel like somebody were either in hyper speed or time has stopped, because so much is happening all at once and each thing feels like it's epic, each thing tel...