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There's just -- you've really -- if you talk to conservatives in iowa, there is a big opening for him. they don't see much of a way for him to crawl out of it. the advantage for everyone else is that if it's gingrich who's rising on this, you know, he -- there is a very long record. he's kind of tried to preempt this. a very long record of newt coalition building that you can attack in the same way. we all come back to romney. he has been vetted on this issue before. the attacks on him on immigration, other things he's been heterodox on. the other things have been aired in the debates and kind...

Right now. he had no problem saying yeah, he chose this person and there has been a person about whether he chose this person or not. romney decided yes he did on his own. the perry campaign said the voters people picked this person to introduce regardless, you heard both say perry's job is to repudiate the endorsement and the romney campaign, they know perry is wound and they want to make him own the cult comment and the bigotry stuff. >> go ahead. >> the interesting thing here martin is the perry campaign doesn't have to do a lot to whip up the mormon issue. you have evangelical who is are d...

The right direction on the night of the election. i don't think there are any other lessons than that. >> if mitt romney is not the republican nominee, how do they blow it? is it his to lose, number one? >> yes. he has the financing to stick this out. >> but what would it cost him? >> well, you just don't know. he's got to get through new hampshire. that's going to be -- he's got to run out in new hampshire clear and you want the other side to continue to be -- to diffuse itself so conservatives don't have one candidate. getting that one-on-one is what hurts him. they're nowhere near that. >> ...

Strategists, and donors have tried to find a positive all the terntive to romney. and again and again they have failed. for about 15 minutes, that alternative seemed to have at last formed in the form of rick perry. perry is still raising money, yet it's hard to miss the loud hiss of air escaping this political balloon. >> surely the issue is, the good news is, the campaign may finally moving away from the "american idol" stage and getting serious. but it's hard to see romney carrying it without addressing in a speech somewhere the mormon issue. >> really? >> i don't agree with that at all. >>...

The talk of red sox with the latest issue of "time" magazine. what is it? >> there's a slash down the center to represent the great and widening divide between the wealthy and less than wealthy in america. >> let's explain we're looking at that cover, rick. explain what americans are looking at in the stacks of dollar bills. >> we had an artist who was working on the cover and we said one way to demonstrate -- it's a jeffrey sachs piece, saying there's a greater economic divide than any time in the history. how would you represent that? so we had a stack of $100 and single $1 bills, and he sen...