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senator rick santorum. let's go to cnn's joe johns right now. he's joining us from des moines. i think rick santorum believed in himself. not a whole lot of others, joe, did. but it's been quite amazing over these past few days how well he's done. >> reporter: that's true, wolf. you know, more than half of the republicans who participated in this process the last time around viewed themselves as evangelical christians. born again christians. so it might be a little risque to compare this process to a seduction, but rick santorum has gone a long way. he says the other candidates in th...

Most interesting of the morning thus far. >> i thought i made some great ones. >> mike's point about his suggesting to voters an instability, we had a conversation and you've had this conversation ongoing on the show about electability. i think the electability question around gingrich has emerged in a poignant way. >> right. >> republicans view it and you've said it many times. this may be a unique opportunity to win the white house with the president's numbers where they are. mike, you quoted some numbers this morning on "way too early" that are interesting. republicans are gaining. i was su...

Time debate before iowa caucus january 3. the biggest loser might be the sound, the ding. we eastern won on that. the panel, fred barnes of weekly standard. juan williams, columnist with the hill and david drycker, roll call. besides the user of the ding. we had to use so it much and the candidates disregard it. we might have to have a fog horn or something. dade, your thoughts about the debate and how it played out? >> i'm a big fan of the electability question. it appears unseemly to useless to only talk at winning you can't govern or do anything. it might make me a d.c. insider but great wa...

Romney, can't stand mitt romney. there he was. he's the guy. he's supposed to be the nominee. he's the one in with waiting, l mccain was, the one you're supposed to go for and 75% of republican voters said no, no, under no circumstances. who else have you got? michele bachmann. right up to the polls. okay. that's not going to work. who else have you got? herman cain. and now newt is that survivor of who else you got thing. and they simply are prepared and they are predominantly a christian group, these voters. christian religion guides them to forgiveness. christianity was invented for forgive...

Inconsistencies in his record. >> had you not been to iowa in four years, in iowa and parts of new hampshire and other primary states, the bulk of the people who are for newt gingrich are for him for one reason and one reason only? they believe that of all the candidates he can roast barack obama? they so detest the president of the united states that they think this is the guy that can get in the ring with him and cut him. >> maybe, mike. if i'm a republican voter and i don't want to see the president reelected, i'm interested in not the candidate who can roast him. i'm interested in the cand...