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Issues and pretend all the other candidates are kind of like santorum and gingrich and perry and bachmann and all the rest of them. it's only if you ignore what ron paul stands for that you can see a non-romney consensus candidate emerging. wish ron paul away in order to do that. joining us, michael steele, former chairman of the republican party. it's great to see you. >> good to be back. happy new year. i see you're a fire brand as ever. i would take exception to a few of the things you're saying. >> tell me. >> just on two points very broadly. number one, with respect to the abortion questi...

If you take ron paul seriously and his followers seriously, and i do, and if you take rick santorum seriously and his supporters seriously, i newly do. the idea republican voters will eventually coalesce around a non-romney candidate powerful enough to unseat mitt romney is hard to see. the santorum people and paul people are not going to find common ground. except on banning abortion. that's it. it's only if you frankly ignore ron paul and you ignore his issues and pretend all the other candidates are kind of like santorum and gingrich and perry and bachmann and all the rest of them. it's onl...

Just different but completely opposite positions. if you take ron paul seriously and his followers seriously, and i do, and if you take rick santorum seriously and his supporters seriously, i newly do. the idea republican voters will eventually coalesce around a non-romney candidate powerful enough to unseat mitt romney is hard to see. the santorum people and paul people are not going to find common ground. except on banning abortion. that's it. it's only if you frankly ignore ron paul and you ignore his issues and pretend all the other candidates are kind of like santorum and gingrich and per...

Candidates are kind of like santorum and gingrich and perry and bachmann and all the rest of them. it's only if you ignore what ron paul stands for that you can see a non-romney consensus candidate emerging. wish ron paul away in order to do that. joining us, michael steele, former chairman of the republican party. it's great to see you. >> good to be back. happy new year. i see you're a fire brand as ever. i would take exception to a few of the things you're saying. >> tell me. >> just on two points very broadly. number one, with respect to the abortion question in particular. both ron paul a...

To like this, the republican in this race needs to be able to talk to americans who are not so well off is the way he's going to put it. he's going to make a populist argument against mitt romney. also saying you don't have to compromise your conservative principles to beat obama. santorum's going to be out there arguing that mitt romney has no foreign policy experience and saying there's not enough contrast with obama when you look at issues like the bailout. >> willie, think about this. mitt's not been touched over the past several months. conservatives have been hitting conservatives. now h...