by the way, ralph reed, with a novel. in a minute -- i think, honest mistake, ralph. sorry.rs down in wall street. now, herman cain did say something interesting. he went on to talk about the people down there. he said, you know what? this is the democrats here want this to happen because what it's doing is a big distraction for the obama scme failed policies. do you agree? >> i do agree. it takes everybody's eye off the ball. the fact, listen, the people vitalked to -- look, i live in the sports world. i talk to real people every day. they say they are sitting on the sidelines, holding onto their capital. we have $2.5 trillion in cash that businesses are sitting on because they don't know about taxes or health care or regulation. people want people to fix stuff and the staff wall street is an absolute distraction. >> a lot of those people are just as upset at obama as they were bush for bailing out wall street and the banks. no one's helped the american people -- as a liberal i. are you upset with obama. >> on the wall street stuff, yeah. >> no, no. i mean -- >> yeah, on th

we watched ralph reed at the podium there. they are kicking things off.here is breaking news and highlights from there. and candidates know what the path to the republican presidential nomination looks like traditionally. nevada republicans agreed to move up from january to february. there was talk about it. it a months long battle over the states over who would be the first . now the schedule was set. peaty ducing looking at the candidates and where they stand right now. >> herman cain who won the republican leadership straw poll out in vegas is trying to explain to the social conservatives when he was propro choice he meant he is prolife and if anyone wants a abortion they will have to commit a crime. >> abortion should not be legal. but if that family makes the decision to break the law that is that family's decision. >> governor perry believes that his flat tax is more attractive than the 9-9-9 plan. he was campaigning and hunting. cain is on the tea party caucus and a past supporter of michelle bachmann who is working hard to shoot down the rumors th

will have to pay attention to do without further ado, please welcome my great friend, the great ralph reed[applause] >> thank you. thank you, iowa. did you notice when they were introducing the dignitaries early that that name was mentioned more than anybody? did you notice that? that is because he is doing such an incredible job building this movement, and steve, on the behalf of faith in freedom members all over iowa, thank you, my friend, for your leadership. we are honored to be on the same team with you. [applause] and i know that i speak not only for the faith in freedom members here in iowa, but for faith in freedom members all over america, that we want to believe that i let continues to play a decisive and pivotal role in choosing the next leader of the free world, and i was should continue to go first in choosing our president. owa should continue to go first in choosing our president. i thought you might agree with that. pundits continued to be stumped by the persistence of the evangelical vote. you may have seen the exit polls from 2008 that found between 55% and 60% of all the

without further ado, please welcome my great friend, ralph reed. >> thank you. thank you, iowa.plause] did you notice when they were introducing the dignitaries earlier that steve shepard's name was mentioned more than anybody? did you notice? that is because he is doing such an incredible job building this movement. on behalf of faith and freedom members all over iowa, thank you, my friend, for your leadership. we are honored to be on the same team with the. [applause] i know that i speak not only for the faith and freedom members here in iowa, but all over america, that we want to make sure that iowa continues to play a decisive and pivotal role in choosing the next leader of the free world, and iowa should continue going first in choosing our president. [applause] i thought you might agree with that. the pundits and pollsters continue to be confounded by the persistence and the endurance of the evangelical vote. the evangelical vote. not just here in iowa, but all over the country. between 55% and 60% of all of the voters who walked into a caucus location in 2008 were self id

i want to thank ralph reed for what he is done all across the country to build the faith in freedom movement. 2012 is the most important election in this country since 1860. next year we will decide whether the disastrous policies of class warfare, bureaucratic socialism, radical judges, and bureaucrats who treat us as subjects rather than citizens will be continued in office, or whether we will decisively repudiated and 80-year drift to the left -- a drift in our newsrooms, a drift in our colleges and universities, adrift with our judges, and a drift among elected politicians -- elected politicians. let me give you one example. the president has announced what will be seen by historians as a decisive defeat for the united states in iraq. despite the best effort of our military, which is, i think, the finest military in history, the failure of our civilian institutions and, frankly, but the failure to understand the scale of the problem means we will have lost the third iraq war. as a historian, i think it needs to be said. we won the first iraq war in 1991 by getting iraq out of kuwait in f

six of the eight candidates are on the schedule for the faith and freedom banquette, it's led by ralph reedformer head of the christian coalition. mitt romney and jon huntsman are missing from the event. romney is in new hampshire. we'll have more on that coming your way in 90 minutes. >>> meanwhile michele bachmann seems to be missing folks in her new hampshire campaign headquarters. she had five staffers, now reports say all five have resigned. one is joining rick perry's campaign. bachmann has lost several high-profile staffers over the past few weeks. they've left for different reasons including allegations that she doesn't have the money to sustain a national campaign. >>> all right. take a look at this. superman. you know, a lot of people like the man of steel, but not this much. the guy is from the philippines. and wait until you hear the lengths he went through to make sure he looked like clark kent. and he didn't just put on the outfit, folks. i took some stees in my teens. i'd never ride without one now. and since my doctor prescribed lipitor, i won't go without it for my high cho

. >> there's a counterargument to that and ralph reed was one of the people, a political strategist who hillary clinton and barack obama going at it tooth and nail for seven months was a huge thing for the democratic party. it's something they wanted to mirror on the republican side. and so far, they got it. >> yeah, i'm -- it's still out for me on whether or not i think it's -- i think it energizes people to want to watch more of the debates because they want to hear what the candidates have to say and they like it when they get away from their talking points so you can see what their true feelings really are about some of the issues. and their personalities. i mean, they always say that you show your true personality on the golf course. maybe you show your true personality during a debate, too, and sometimes people want to see that. >> why did you have to bring the golf course up? >> what do you think out there? do you think the bickering was helpful or hurtful to the candidates? e-mail us, friends at foxnews.com or twitter us as well. >> now your headlines for a wednesday. we begin w

i want to thank you and steve for your great leadership here in iowa and thank ralph reed for what he'sone across the country to build the faith and freedom movement. 2012 is the most important election in this country since 1860. next year, we will decide whether the disastrous policies of class warfare, bureaucratic socialism, radical judges, and bureaucrats who treat us as subjects rather than citizens will be continued in office, or whether we will decisively repudiate an 80-year drift to the left, a drift in the newsroom, a drift in the colleges and universities, a drift in our bureaucracies, a drift o wore judges, and a drift with our politicians. that's how decisive 2012 is. let me give you one example. the president has announced what will be seen by historians as a decisive defeat in the united states and iraq, despite the best efforts of our military which is, i think, tacticically the finest military in the country, the failure of the civilian institutions, and frankly, the failure to understand the scale of the problem will mean we will have lost the third iraq war. this may