greta: dead heat in alabama. speaker gingrich is to sweep the south, if he doesn t win in alabama and mississippi on tuesday, will he drop out? speaker gingrich says no, but should he? dick morris joins us. nice to see you dick. good to be here. greta: so, are they really statistically li tied in alabama? they are at the moment. they couldn t get worse. 30-29, 28. in mississippi the latest poll romney is taken a 7-point lead and he was way behind in mississippi and alabama. i think what is happening. romney has opened up a 12-point lead over santorum nationally, voters are coming to the conclusion it s romney. they want the process to end and
don t want republicans killing each over. romney is getting a lot of votes greta: 1144 is the magic number that the front-runner and front-runner is governor romney. let s say speaker gingrich takes texas and somebody else takes california and mischief in the state like in wisconsin where you can vote if you are not a registered republican, are there enough sort, late in process where it s going to be hard to get 1144 even for the front-runner? yeah, i think that is real danger. i think we would have to come to grips with the fact that statistically almost impossible for gingrich as an santorum to amass the number of delegates before the convention opens. that means that if either of them begin to score primary
there. i ve watched this for years. i have watched predictions he s made, many winning predictions and negative force for the republican party. greta: something makes me think you don t like george will? but you are not going to win the presidency. republicans have a very good chance especially when they get their act together and get one candidate. one candidate should be mitt romney. at some point they are going to have to get together and have a candidate because they keep fighting each other they are not fighting obama. obama is very, very vulnerable and oil is going to make him more vulnerable. greta: is he vulnerable if the job numbers continue to look better, if gas prices don t soar and if the unemployment levels, but doesn t that make his position more secure than less
controlled by william randolph hearst but it s messy. greta, it s late august. at the convention were the first week of july i wouldn t care. we could wait until early july to have a candidate but we can t wait until the end of august. greta: what do you think is biggest battleground state is up for grabs right now? mississippi and alabama right now. greta: i think the general election? i m sorry. let me say, romney was behind in both of those states. if he wins both of those states, i think gingrich will have to drop out and i think at that point santorum should drop out. greta: let me advance to the general election. is ohio the iffy state or
victories over romney. the chances are we may not have a nominee until august 30th. i think that kisses your chances of beating obama goodbye. i don t think you can run a national campaign against a sitting president in 60 days. i don t think you can do it. i don t think the republican party can stand six months of tearing the ultimate candidate apart. i believe, i ve never endorsed romney, santorum or gingrich, never urged people to vote for one or the other, right now because of circumstance i hope republicans vote for romney. more than anything else we need a candidate chosen early and with santorum and gingrich now it s almost an impossibility. greta: let s say, come mid-august, governor romney has 1100 and short 44 and they go into convention and doesn t have tell me the mechanics of how a