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i don't. >> joining me now is rick tyler, senior adviser for the pro-gingrich super pac eric, santorumngrich consistently in these things. you have a wipeout of mitt romney in all these campaigns. what does rick santorum have to do to convince -- not newt gingrich but other republicans to rise up and say, come on, let's narrow this race? >> i'm not a political strategist, i have to say that if he continues to say what he believes in, i have a funny feeling that the obama administration is probably more afraid of san forum at this point than they're willing to admit. he has an ability to connect with rust-belt middle americans, working class americans. i think that's why i would ultimately support him. i feel that he makes a connection with average americans that in a way romney isn't yet making, and i don't see him making that in the way that santorum is making. so it's hard for me to think he's not electable. i think he's the most electable of the three. >> the national polls don't show that mitt romney has any particular advantage over rick santorum running against president obama. a

anything can happen at that point. >> rick tyler, would you expect newt gingrich and rick santorum and possibly mitt romney to ask to address the convention early on, perhaps right after that first ballot? >> well, the rnc has rules about that. the truth is, if you win five states, just the plurality in the five states, you have equal access to the convention floor and all the resources. that's why i say it's going to be a big fight over who gets control of the floor and who gets to speak and how much time they get. the rules state if you get a certain number of states, just the plurality in those states, that you have equal access to all the conventions, time, allocation, resources, all of it. so we'll just see what's going to happen. it's going to be very interesting. >> rick tyler and hogan gidley, hang in there. we really want to see this. we really want to see that open convention. thank you very much and thank you for joining us tonight. >> i'm sure you do, lawrence. >> steve schmidt, hang around, we're going to come back and talk about "game change" and john mccain's reaction an

joining me now is rick tyler, a senior adviser for the pro gingrich superpack winning our future. guy threw in the towel. you can go home. he is not trying to win the presidency anymore. he is the same thing as ron paul. he just wants to have delegates to have an impact at the convention. >> i disagree. i think all of the candidates will arrive at the convention on relatively the same turf. none of them will have required the reck kwi it is number of delegates so therefore mitt romney is liable to fail in the first ballot so you don't know what will happen. the delegates become free and unbound and i think if that circumstance newt gingrich has a chance of being the republican nooe nominee. >> they are going to arrive with a ranking of delegates. it is likely that romney will arrive with the most. it is likely that santorum will arrive with the second largest number and that newt gingrich will arrive with the third largest number and possibly a distant third. so, there's no way on earth that convention is going to give their nom nooe nation to the guy who shows up in third place w

joined by rick tyler, senior adviser to the pro-gingrich super pac, bay buchanan. co-gingrich super pac has been instrumental in keeping gingrich in the case. a casino out in vegas has been a big donor. are you having any trouble? is the money still coming in and saying he's going to win from south carolina all the way over to texas, he loses mississippi and alabama, isn't the money going to dry up? >> i think the money will be a challenge, but i don't think this is about money, and i don't think it's about buying the republican nomination. i think this is about the heart and soul of the republican party. our team is a very small team. all of us have been loyal to gingrich. we've steadfastly kept the professionals out even when we had money because we wanted to keep the speaker's interests at heart. the decision is up to him and we'll be there as long as he's going to fight on. i believe, as i say, he'll arrive in tampa on equal footing in the sense that he will not have the requisite number of delegates and neither will romney and santorum. if a brokered conventio

rick tyler is joining us, a former gingrich suppopokesman, head of the super pac, winning our future,s forgetting on the program. >> thank you, glad to be here. >> we are glad to have you. the red, white and blue fund said with gingrich exiting the race it would be a true head to head and conservatives would be able to make a choice for a true conservative in santorum. newt has become a roadblock to a conservative. do you think rick santorum should drop out? >> sure, i'll return the favor, i mean, look. why not just have the voters decide. you know, we can move on to decide which is the conservative alternative. newt won here in georgia in a big way and santorum did not do well here, i think it was a mixed result all around last night, i would have liked to have won a coupe more states. mitt romney struggled, he struggled in virginia against ron paul, he struggled in vermont. you know, rick santorum did not win ohio, and ohio was a rematch like michigan, and in many ways ohio is like pennsylvania, where he lost by 18 points in a must-win state of course look, he could drop out too. bu

talk to your doctor. >>> we are back with rick tyler, a pro-gingrich supporter and senior adviser toch, barbara comstack and maria cardona, a democratic strategist. i want to play -- mitt romney was in town today, he went up on the hill. one of the people he met with is jim demint, who is a big tea party guy. demint did not come out and give his blessing to the romney candidacy, but i want you to hear what he said. >> in some point these candidates have to determine for themselves is there a chance to win or could they do more by getting out. and i can't tell them when that is and i can't tell them who they are, but the sooner we can come around to a nominee, i think the better we are as a party. >> so the sooner we can come around a nominee, i think the better we are as a party. do you agree? >> no. jim demint and recruited these great candidates for senate who are tea party candidates, most notably marco rubio. but in my opinion if we get mitt romney we have not advanced the party at all. the worst thing for the party was to return it to the moderates. the tea party got us all the

here to talk truth, rick tyler, donna brazile and jason chafitz. you know the speaker very well.l you continue to do that if he is not actively campaigning as much in the states? >> we have made a commitment to support newt gingrich. he says we are going to march to tampa and we can march on. people send their $50 whether they get a photo or not. >> how do you -- look. he was actually honest. he was at georgetown a little bit ago. this is newt gingrich rating his own campaign. let's listen. >> this is why i am running. i haven't done a very good job of a candidate. it is so difficult to communicate big solutions in this country. >> but he also says now he is not and you could hear it in his speech. he is going to talk about himself, his ideas about president obama, not so much criticizing the others in the race. why? >> in a as soon as, if gingrich leaves, his issues leave. this race, let's face it, has not been something the republicans can be proud of. it is a race of politics and destruction. he wanted to have a positive campaign to fix the debt and unemployment and the school

joining us from nashville is the head of the gingrich super pac, rick tyler. ir. >> how are you? >> i want to start with some measure of congratulations. your man gingrich did take second in mississippi and alabama, forcing romney into third place. but mr. tyler, you were quoted as saying we needed to win both those states. sadly, you didn't. but is winning this thing now secondary to you to injuring mitt romney? is that the purpose of gingrich? >> no, not entirely. what i said was -- >> not entirely? mr. tyler, you think it is partially, don't you? >> well, i think we're going to do everything at the super pac to keep mitt romney from getting the nomination. i did say we needed to win alabama and mississippi to change the narrative. we will change the narrative moving forward. i predict now the that newt gingrich will arrive in tampa on equal footing with mitt romney and rick santorum and ron paul. and the reason is is none of those people will have the requisite amount of delegates to take the nomination. my guess is after the first ballot which romney will f

. >> rick tyler, senior adviser for the pro-gingrich super pac winning our future. >> this is the guyke mistakes. >> not only that, the reason it's playing all day it just rings so true. we've always suspected -- look, i'll predict by tomorrow morning we'll have an etch a sketch ad on youtube. turn a little to the right. turn a little to the left. you don't like him how you want him to be, shake it and maybe he'll go away. maybe we should try that. shake it and maybe he'll go away. it was a devastating thing. he stepped right into this. he should have known better. this is the underlying anxiety conservatives and republicans have about mitt romney. here he is confirming it. >> he says it right at the point where rush limbaugh and others are starting to surround romney. limbaugh saying today mitt romney might be the conservative alternative to mitt romney. actually this crazy rationale for justifying rush limbaugh supporting the historically most liberal republican certainly in his past he was the most liberal republican who's ever run for president. >> well, that's right. i mean, you

rick tyler is a spokesman for a super pac that supports newt gingrich. he believes super pacs would become obsolete if individuals were allowed to give more money directly to candidates. >> i suspect we have a much healthier election if candidates had to take responsibility for all their own ads. >> reporter: but stewart roy says his candidate, santorum, might not have made it this far if not for million-dollar super pac donations from investor foster frees, and energy executive william dorr. do you think it's fair basically a hand full of millionaires can control the process like this? >> in this particular situation, ironically in the eyes of a lot of people, you have candidates who are now competitive who otherwise would not have been. >> reporter: but, scott, nearly 90% of all super pac ads in ohio were negative, so while super pacs say the money helps get the message out, it's debatable just how informative that message is. >> pelley: on the campaign trail in mississippi, thank you, nancy. this is international women's day, celebrating the accomplis

rick tyler, his spokesman for the last 12 years, now helps run a super pac supporting gingrich. >> the whole contract with america was a management document and basically said if you elect us we'll do these things. elected, to the shock of everybody, they did these things. >> cordes: georgia is at the heart of gingrich's southern strategy with alabama, mississippi, and louisiana all holding primaries later this month. >> in the end, republicans are going to say who can beat obama? romney is so far failed to close that sale. >> cordes: despite all the focus on ohio, georgia actually has the most delegates at stake on super tuesday, 76. polls show gingrich leading in georgia right now by double digits. coming up, rerun in russia as voters get set to return vladimir putin to the top what's with you? trouble with a car insurance claim. [ dennis ] switch to allstate. their claim service is so good, now it's guaranteed. [ foreman ] so i can trust 'em. unlike randy. dollar for dollar, nobody protects you like allstate. dollar for dollar, nobody mid grade dark roast forest fresh full tank brai

we have robert costa, the national review, along with newt gingrich supporters, and rick tyler. th newt and mitt. he offered a cabinet offer. didn't offer to repay his debt. what came out of that meeting? >> i have no idea. i'm sure newt accepted the meeting, but i'm sure it was short. because mitt has nothing to offer newt. from vp, second, ambassadorship. mitt is not in the position to offer anything. >> don't you think it is not important what newt is doing, but what he want. mitt was probably smart to reach out to gingrich. >> sure. >> rm rm knee doesnromney doesn want that kind of chaos. i was with romney in georgetown on wednesday. he is not going negative on santorum and he want it play a role in this party. mitt romney is in the spot. >> newt is going to play a role in the party. that's the whole point. this is george w. baush's party. it is not newt gingrich's party. newt came out of nowhere. ne >> he doesn't want to be a spoiler, right, rick? >> newt doesn't want to be a bringer. wen't it bring the party back to the party that used to went on conservative principles. >>

here is rick tyler who is saying he will continue to advertise on rush limbaugh's radio show. >> that sounds about right. >> what do you think of that? >> when i was in ohio over the weekend and listening on monday to rush's program. the majority was for republican candidates. they are still, all of these republican candidates, none of them have the courage to stantds up to this guy. it's pathetic. i think romney's response was the most cowardly saying this is the language i wouldn't have used. i think that's disqualified for a presidential candidate to not have the courage to speak out against language calling women sluts and prostitutes. he has grand daughters. he has a wife, and he can't take that basic step of decency. >> do you agree with that? do you think it was a critical moment? we know he can't connect with anyo anyone. we know he didn't have any convictions what so ever where he's invited to make an obvious condemnation of wrong doing. >> absolutely right. stunning spinelessness. the inabilities to stand up in the face of a well-known reality and call it for what it is. the

rick tyler of winning our future super pac said "this is pretty important. the pac always felt we needed to win both of these states to change the narrative." it didn't happen. today, tyler made it clear what the gingrich strategy is. >> i predict now that newt gingrich will arrive in tampa on equal footing with mitt romney and rick santorum and ron paul, the reason is none of those people will have the requisite amount of delegates to take the nomination. >> delegate, it's momentum, pr, ability to sell. get some real estate. image is everything, right? gingrich can't bring himself to drop out of the race, because he wants to hurt mitt romney. it's personal. gingrich was thrilled with himself last night as he stood at the podium and mocked mitt romney for coming in third. romney responded on fox news today. >> if i'm a weak front runner what does that make newt gingrich? i'm glad i think i have twice as many delegates as anyone else in the process. over the last several contests i earned a million more votes than has either senator santorum or speaker gingri

joining us is rick tyler. thank you for joining us. >> thank you. >> mr.huge emphasis upon georgia and hoping to do well in tennessee and o oklahoma. in all seriousness, if romney wins more than half of the 424 delegates available today, it's surely all over for your candidate, isn't it? >> it ain't over till it's over. never say never and never, never ever quit. if he decides to go to the convention. we'll be there with him. >> i guess mr. gingrich can carry on as long as he's got mr. adelson who continues to through money at him. do you understand the distinct hypocrisy only for mr. gingrich to be relying upon the profits of sin city from mr. p adelson just to keep his campaign afloat. >> i don't know how much he's given to mr. gingrich's came pain. we're gratef fuful for that. >> how much has he given to winning the future. >> i believe over $11 million. >> you accept there may be some basic cuization accusations wheh accuses romney of buying the lek where he takes vast amounts of money from the gambling casino billionaire mr. sheldon adelson. >> there'

. >> by the way, even the guy in charge gingrich's super pac rick tyler he told "the washington post," quote, this is pretty important, the pac felt we needed to win both of these states to change the narrative. romney called it an early night, he skipped an election night speech and instead weighed in by press release saying, quote, we'll be increasing our delegate count in a very substantial way after tonight and we are even closer to the nomination, those are all facts. the last time we saw romney was at 6:30 eastern last night. he'd moved on to missouri which is holding caucuses on saturday. >> we've got work to do. i need you guys to caucus, all right? you got saturday, you're going to come together for a caucus. i need you to get out there and vote for me. >> this morning romney is in new york city for a string of finance events expected to net him about $2 million over the next two days. but you got to ask yourself, we will talk about it more, but mitt romney, he's got a message problem and a narrative problem. think about it. the message, how consistently has he answer eed the

rick tyler is senior advisor to the pro-gingrich super pac.nd chip salts man was part of mike huckabee's campaign in 2008. i want a one on one race. mitt romney, i believe is a moderate republican from massachusetts. just like when he was. that's my view. i admit my prejudice. i think your guy is a road hog. why doesn't he let a conservative who has a chance to knock off romney do it and get out of the way so it can happen? >> well, first of all, rick santorum is not a conservative. he's a big government republican. he voted to raise the debt limit five times. >> okay. you got the talking points. there's not a single person watching right now who thinks that's anything but political blather. we all know the american people know. he's a conservative. rick santorum is a conservative. can't you give him that? >> compared to you he's a conservative. >> what was his ada rating? 5? what are you talking about? >> newt gingrich is a higher acu rating than rick santorum does. >> i don't deny he has a higher one. the question is is either one of them no

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good idea tonight with republican consultant and cnn political contributor alex castellanos and rick tyler senior adviser for pro-gingrich super pac. congresswoman, a lot of working people in your district not happy with gas that's over $4 just about everywhere you go in maryland. should the president tap the reserves? >> well, i'm not quite sure. i think we should wait to see that. what i do know is that i went to fill up my tank last night, it was $4.04 a gallon, i know 84 cents of that was attributable to the fact that people are speculating, wall street is speculating on oil sprisprices. that is causing the steepest rise. not demand, not supply but speculation. >> that's the market. should the government do anything about that? >> i think we can do a couple things. one, we can stop the speculation and allow the commodity futures trading commission to actually crack down on wall street speculators. in congress, we could actually pull away some of those oil s subsi subsidies. and three, if it's necessary, we could tap thestrategic reserve. >> 40%, not much, 15%, none, 20%. so 64% blame t