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Guests: Howard Fineman, Steve Schmidt, Courtney Reagan, Jennifer Donahue, James Pindell, Joseph McQuaid, Judd Gregg, Joan Walsh, David Corn
CHRIS MATTHEWS, HOST: Anybody but Romney?
Let`s play HARDBALL.
Good evening. I`m Chris Matthews at the Armory in Manchester, New
Hampshire, where in just six days, this commonwealth will hold its first-
in-the-country primary.
Leading off tonight: Is he the great contender? Who is Rick Santorum?
Is he the guy movement conservatives can finally rally around to defeat
Mitt Romney, who again last night was rejected by three quarters of Iowa
Republicans? Or is he a one-hit wonder, this year`s Mike Huckabee? Romney
has the money, the organization and the patience to outrun Santorum, but
does his side have the passion?
Also, the right-wing empire is about to strike back. Michele Bachmann
dropped out today. Her voters are a lot more likely to stick a Santorum
sign on their yards than a Romney one. Jon Huntsman`s all about knocking
off Romney personally. And for Newt Gingrich, it`s not business, it`s
strictly personal. Get ready, Mitt. The right`s coming at you.
Plus, will the Republicans sign an "ABM" treaty -- anybody but Mitt?
Can a coalition of Santorum, Gingrich and Perry voters be formed to stop
And is Team Obama happy right now? Not as happy as you`d think. They
love that Romney didn`t win big out there in Iowa, but they worry that
Santorum will be just the latest anti-Romney whose bubble is going to
And "Let Me Finish" tonight with the importance, and the big
importance, of New Hampshire.
We start with Rick Santorum. Howard Fineman is an MSNBC political
analyst and the Huffington Post Media Group editorial director. And Steve
Schmidt worked on the Bush-Cheney 2004 campaign and ran the 2008 McCain
campaign. Steve`s also an MSNBC political analyst.
Gentlemen, last night was interesting. Tonight begins the more
interesting test. Last night, Romney came out on top, though only by 8
votes. And that`s not 8 percentage points, that`s 8 individual voters`
MATTHEWS: Rick Santorum, for all intents and purposes, tied Romney
last night. Ron Paul came in third, and Newt Gingrich was a distant but
important fourth.
Howard, I think it was important that Gingrich grabbed that fourth.
He`s still in the running. He`s in the top four. He`s not in the money,
as you`d say.
MATTHEWS: But let me ask you about this. Let`s talk really big now.
If you`re the president in the White House, you`re David Plouffe, if you`re
Axelrod, if you`re all the big thinkers, Valerie Jarrett and the rest of
them, and you`re Mitt Romney, are you worried that you might be seeing the
beginning of the unity on the right, that they`re beginning to realize that
one of the two guys will probably be the counter to Romney -- that`s either
Rick Santorum or Newt Gingrich? One of the two will probably have to carry
the banner.
Are they beginning to coalesce, that 75 percent that just doesn`t like
FINEMAN: The short answer is no. They`re not coalescing just yet.
And Rick Santorum has to prove here in New Hampshire that he`s a guy to
coalesce around. If he hits a trough here and does poorly here, that will
reinforce the notion that he was only the seventh and last temporary front-
runner in Iowa.
MATTHEWS: Right.
FINEMAN: And so no, I don`t think so. And I think the fact that Rick
Perry decided to stay in the race, at least until South Carolina, is not
meant as a pro-Rick Santorum move. If anything, that might benefit Mitt
Romney. Mitt Romney`s whole plan here...
MATTHEWS: Yes.
FINEMAN: ... is to keep the rest as divided as long as possible, and
Rick Perry`s still appealing to Protestant evangelicals in the South.
Don`t forget you have...
MATTHEWS: He`s the only one.
FINEMAN: You have the odd situation here -- not to get too
theological about it, but you`ve got a Mormon and two Catholics in Romney,
Santorum and Gingrich. The Southern Protestant vote in the Republican
Party is still out there. That`s Perry`s theory.
But I think what Perry`s really doing is doing Mitt Romney a favor by
trying to keep things divided...
MATTHEWS: Why is he working for Romney?
FINEMAN: Well, I don`t know that he is, but I think he wants...
MATTHEWS: That`s the first thing I thought of this morning...
FINEMAN: I can`t -- I can`t...
MATTHEWS: ... when I heard he`s staying in this thing.
FINEMAN: I can`t prove that it`s a deal...
FINEMAN: ... but that`s clearly what the intent is.
MATTHEWS: OK, Steve Schmidt, now, take your Romney hat off
completely. And I know you`re rooting for the guy, maybe because you think
he`s the only guy that can beat Obama. But take the hat off. I know it`s
a big hat. It`s a heavy one for you. Take off the burden of thinking he`s
your guy and think intellectually. You`re Romney right now. You`re the
brains around him. Do you think there`s a good or a bad chance the enemy
will unite?
STEVE SCHMIDT, REPUBLICAN STRATEGIST, MSNBC POLITICAL ANALYST: Well,
I think that you have to be encouraged if you`re on the Romney campaign,
which I`m not a member of, Chris, despite that. That Rick Perry staying in
the race in South Carolina -- I mean, four years ago, in 2008, the most
important thing that happened to John McCain in terms of being able to win
the South Carolina primary, which set up the Florida victory, which set up
his ability to be the nominee, was Fred Thompson staying in the race...
MATTHEWS: Right.
SCHMIDT: It siphoned just enough votes away from Mike Huckabee...
MATTHEWS: So what`s the motive...
SCHMIDT: ... to put John McCain...
MATTHEWS: ... of Perry?
SCHMIDT: ... over the top. I think that politicians act in their own
self-interest. It`s not a team sport. I think Rick Perry is saying that
he wants to go out there, he wants to end this on his own terms, he wants
to see if he can have a couple good debate performances.
Hope springs eternal in this business, so I don`t think that Rick
Perry`s calculations are about, how does it affect Rick Santorum or how
does it affect Mitt Romney.
SCHMIDT: I think it`s about, how does it affect Rick Perry.
MATTHEWS: OK, let`s take this whole thing -- I want you to pick up
here and then go back to Howard on this, Steve. You know the Republican
Party. You were very effective up here in New Hampshire with McCain
winning up here. Let me ask you about -- last time around.
Let me ask you about this thing with what I call this sort of the
Catholic angry vote that came up here, the people that moved out of
Massachusetts, moved up here -- not the old Yankees that have been here for
generations, back to the Mayflower people, Irish, Italian, French Canadian,
different kinds of people that moved up here.
They liked Pat Buchanan. They`re pro-life. They`re gritty, gritty
Catholics. Do you think that`s a vote that Santorum can nab in just five
or six days?
SCHMIDT: Well, I`m not sure that Rick Santorum is going to be able to
win the New Hampshire primary. I think that Romney has built his firewall
there. I think the question is, can Rick Santorum move into double digits?
Can he finish second in New Hampshire? Can he finish close to Ron Paul?
Does he have momentum coming out of New Hampshire, which sets up a must-win
state for him, which I think is South Carolina?
I think that if Rick Santorum is going to take...
MATTHEWS: Well said.
SCHMIDT: ... this primary deep, he`s going to have to win somewhere,
and he`s going to have to win in South Carolina, and he`s going to have to
win in Florida, or be close in Florida to go the distance.
MATTHEWS: Whoa! Be close in Florida. Yes. But he -- in other
words, he has to -- that`s a good point. I think I think his logic there
makes sense. Santorum has to do well enough up here in New Hampshire this
Tuesday, next Tuesday, to be strong enough in South Carolina to win.
FINEMAN: Absolutely.
MATTHEWS: Can he win if -- if Mitt -- if Gingrich is still floating
around and Perry`s still floating around?
FINEMAN: Well, that makes it difficult. But Rick -- as I said, if
Rick Santorum is going to be the guy they`re going to rally around, he`s
got to do well here. Just getting into double digits, by the way, is not
enough. I think if he finishes behind Ron Paul, for example, that`s a
MATTHEWS: Well, right now...
FINEMAN: ... for Santorum.
MATTHEWS: ... he`s starting at 43 for Romney, and he`s 5.
FINEMAN: Yes.
MATTHEWS: So how high does he have to climb between 5 and 43?
FINEMAN: Well, I think he -- listen, politics is not fair. The
expectations are raised for him now.
MATTHEWS: Is 35-25 good enough for him? Is that a win?
FINEMAN: That would be a dream come true for Rick Santorum, are you
kidding, if he could get 25 percent here?
MATTHEWS: OK, let`s set the bar right now, tonight. Let`s --
everybody tries to set the bar. Let`s do it here on HARDBALL. Steve
Schmidt, if it`s a 35-25 result up here for Romney in first, Santorum in
second, is that a win for Rick?
SCHMIDT: Yes. I think that gives him the momentum he needs to come
into South Carolina pretty strong. But he`s going to need to have a pretty
strong second place showing in New Hampshire, maybe third place, but he`s
got to be real close to where Ron Paul is if he`s going to be in that third
place position.
FINEMAN: That`s going to be tough.
MATTHEWS: Well, now we`re the experts. I love having you guys on
because I think you know your stuff. Back to you, Steve. What number does
Santorum have to get up here to get Newt to recognize that he`s really a
supporting team right now, he`s an assister, he has to give the ball for
the other guy to win the shot down in South Carolina? Does he have to get
up that close, a 10-point spread for Newt to say basically, This ain`t my
year. It may be Rick Santorum`s year, and I hate Romney so much, I don`t
care who beats him, as long as he loses?
SCHMIDT: Boy, it`s tough to get inside Newt Gingrich`s head. You saw
that speech last night. I thought it was the most remarkable concession
speech I`ve ever seen in politics, where he essentially declared, I`m going
to be the blocking fullback for Rick Santorum in the race.
MATTHEWS: Right.
FINEMAN: Yes.
SCHMIDT: He`s clearly very angry. His face was dripping with anger
last night in that concession speech.
I don`t know what makes him tick. He`s called himself a world
historical figure. Does a world historical figure get out of the race,
throw the reins to -- you know, to another candidate? I just don`t know.
But certainly, I think that Newt Gingrich is going to play a big factor in
this race in the days ahead and he`s going to play a big role in these
debates, which are going to be very important this week.
MATTHEWS: Is this going to be right out of Dickens, It`s a far better
thing that I`ve ever done...
FINEMAN: Oh, I don`t know.
MATTHEWS: He`s going to give it to Santorum?
FINEMAN: No. The word "give" and Newt Gingrich...
FINEMAN: ... don`t quite go together. Listen, I think Steve is right
in what he said earlier, which is politics is not a team sport. And I
think for now, Newt`s rationale is that he is going to stay away from Rick
Santorum and go after...
MATTHEWS: OK, but not push him.
FINEMAN: Yes, not -- but I don`t think...
MATTHEWS: OK, let`s...
FINEMAN: ... down the road that that`s necessarily going to be true.
MATTHEWS: Let`s (INAUDIBLE) what we saw -- those of us who stayed up
late at night, and we were all here, watch what happened last night.
Here`s Rick Santorum attacking the notion that Mitt Romney is more
electable than he is. Let`s watch. This is the beginning of what he hopes
is the end for Mitt Romney. This is Newt Gingrich. (SIC)
RICK SANTORUM (R-PA), FMR. SEN., PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: People asked
me, Well, why do you think you can win? Because we`ve been told by so many
people that there`s another candidate in this race who is running a rather
close race with me tonight...
SANTORUM: ... that is a better person to choose because he can win.
Let me tell you...
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: "Romney care"!
SANTORUM: What wins -- what did you say?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: "Romney care."
SANTORUM: Oh, "Romney care." OK. I just didn`t hear you.
SANTORUM: What wins -- what wins in America are bold ideas, sharp
contrasts and a plan that includes everyone.
MATTHEWS: Steve, let`s talk about how the knife comes out. We saw --
we`ve seen the dagger of Gingrich. He`s pulled it out. He said the dagger
is abortion rights. It`s paying for abortion in the Massachusetts health
care plan. It`s putting Planned Parenthood people on the board up here,
all these assaults he`s been trying to make already at -- at -- at Romney.
And now the question is, can he join with the ultimate pro-lifer,
Santorum, and bring all those conservative Catholics aboard for Santorum up
here next Tuesday and surprise Romney by getting up around 25 percent or
SCHMIDT: I -- I do think that he`s going to come up in New Hampshire.
How high he goes, I don`t know. New Hampshire is not a state that`s going
to be driven by the social conservative message. It`s the economic
populist message that I think is going to be much more impactful for Rick
MATTHEWS: Right.
SCHMIDT: And I think you saw that message previewed to great effect
last night. I thought that his first speech to the national audience
really looking at him through the prism of a potential nominee was a major
league performance. And we`ll see how he acquits himself up there over
next week.
MATTHEWS: Didn`t he sound like Pat Buchanan in the sense that
Buchanan won up here in `96, almost won in `92 against the senior Bush,
beat Dole up here with that message, a combination of pro-life underpinning
-- everybody knows you`re pro-life -- and then make the economic argument?
That`s what Santorum did last night.
FINEMAN: Yes, I know, but I agree with Steve. If he goes the
Buchanan route, that`s a dead end. Rick Santorum thinks of himself as a
guy who can marry cultural conservatism with -- with economics, and he`s
MATTHEWS: Yes.
FINEMAN: He`s got to stress the economic message up here, and he`s
got to do it in a way that gets a new generation of voters here. And by
the way, on the Catholic thing, Chris, I think it`s true as far as you take
it, but that`s not what the main aim of Rick Santorum is going to be here.
He`s going to go after secular people who want some kind of new leadership
that doesn`t seem manufactured and pre-made and phony.
MATTHEWS: Yes.
FINEMAN: A big part of what Rick Santorum is going to do here is
appeal to the New Hampshirites` love of authenticity and say, you know, We
don`t want some manufactured guy. We want some guy who seems like a real
character. And that`s something that`s different from religion, a
different appeal from religion.
MATTHEWS: Yes.
FINEMAN: And that`s what Santorum is going to try to do and that`s
what he`s going to have to do here.
MATTHEWS: Well, that`s what it sounded like last night. I thought
that speech last night, as you said...
SCHMIDT: It was very real.
MATTHEWS: ... as you said last night, Steve...
SCHMIDT: It was very real.
MATTHEWS: ... was a wonderful story of a family coming to America...
SCHMIDT: Very real.
MATTHEWS: ... two generations ago, the big hands of the father -- the
grandfather, rather, talking about that in the coffin. That`s pretty
graphic stuff, but it`s very American for many of the people up here who
come from immigrant pasts just a couple of generations ago.
Thank you very much, Steve Schmidt. You`re a great guy. Thank you,
Howard Fineman.
Coming up: Get ready for the fireworks. Newt Gingrich is coming after
Mitt Romney. This is personal, like in "The Godfather," only the opposite.
It is a business. This is personal. And Huntsman has built his whole
career, it seems now, on beating -- on beating Romney, and Santorum now has
to. This is three-on-one, ladies and gentlemen, three-on-one going after
Mitt. Let`s see how he holds up, up here in his home turf.
You`re watching HARDBALL, from the Armory, or the Armory, in
Manchester, New Hampshire, only on MSNBC.
MATTHEWS: Welcome back to HARDBALL. Newt Gingrich, starting with my
exchange with him in Iowa this past Sunday, has made it clear he`s changing
strategy and now intends to go after Romney in the coming days in hopes he
can recover some of the damage inflicted upon him by that barrage of
negative anti-Gingrich advertising which was done by the pro-Romney super-
PAC out in Iowa. Is this smart strategy, or a desperate last measure? Is
this personal or business?
James Pindell is the political director for WMUR, the big TV station
up here in Manchester, and Jennifer Donahue is our pro, our fellow at the
Eisenhower Institute. Thank you, Jennifer.
And let me -- let me start with you because you`ve had the hot hand
for this personal stuff. I want to go after the -- it seems to me if you
are Mitt Romney coming home to New England -- he has a place up in Lake
Winnepesaukee in the summer. He`s part of this New England thing, and
there`s a lot of regionalism up here, parochialism, if you will. He`s got
Huntsman, who`s built his entire notion of who he is on the guy that can
beat him up here, beat Romney up here. You`ve got Santorum, who`s just
coming off a virtual tie with Romney out in Iowa who`s got to prove himself
up here. You`ve got Gingrich, who`s in kind of a vendetta. He`s got his
knife out for Romney.
Do these three people coming up here -- can they bring Romney down
from the 43 percent he`s at, starting this fight, down to somewhere where
they can whittle him down, and then one of them can beat him up here? Is
that doable?
JENNIFER DONAHUE, EISENHOWER INSTITUTE: You know, it`s a tall order
to beat Romney, but I will say they will whittle him down. And that`s the
intent of every one of them, including Ron Paul, who has a solid base of
supporters in the state and is eroding part of Romney`s appeal to
I think you`re going to see Romney`s numbers fall to earth. He is
capped at 25 percent. Seventy-five percent of conservatives do not like
Mitt Romney. I talked to a number of conservative activists in New
Hampshire today, where I`m heading tonight to join you up there.
And I do think that the Catholic vote means something, Chris. Sixty
percent of New Hampshire is Catholic. Rick Santorum is Catholic. Rick
Santorum has a great story. He has a personal narrative. If Newt Gingrich
goes negative, Rick Santorum stays positive, you`ve got a one-two punch.
You`ve got people pressing the indies on the side of Ron Paul and Huntsman.
And you could see Romney fall to earth.
MATTHEWS: Let me ask you about the people up here. My old boss, Tip
O`Neill, when I worked for him as (INAUDIBLE) used to say that New
Hampshire`s so conservative and so anti-government, they don`t like taxes,
obviously, "Taxachusetts," they don`t even like the parks. They don`t even
like the basic stuff that government does.
The fact that Romney is associated with "Romney care," the fact that
he was a moderate governor in nearby Massachusetts, how come that hasn`t
hurt him yet?
JAMES PINDELL, WMUR: Look, number one, Chris, this state is a lot
different than it was in the back in the Tip O`Neill days.
MATTHEWS: OK, how so?
PINDELL: Well, number one, we voted for a Democratic president, you
know, three out of the last four times, had a Democrat -- a Democratic
governor, who`s the most popular governor in recent history, or heck, in
state history in terms of polling. And Democrats recently had their most
successful elections since Reconstruction, OK? So this is a swing state.
But here`s the point about...
MATTHEWS: Well, wait a minute. The Obama people are scared to death
they`re going to lose it this time.
PINDELL: Well, they should be scared to death if the person is Mitt
Romney. I think it`s done.
If it`s not, this is one of a dozen, the 13 swing states it always has
been, but obviously Barack Obama won it last time.
MATTHEWS: OK. Where`s Romney vulnerable this Tuesday? When you have
all these people going or him, Santorum, Gingrich, Paul, and all of them
going after him, and Huntsman?
PINDELL: Right. This is a referendum not only on the answer of if
not Romney who, or why not Romney, it`s also going to be also a test for
Rick Santorum?
But here`s the thing. You have got to understand this, Chris. Polls
here are very unreliable. We saw this last time. We have seen it in the
past. Let`s go back to 1980. 1980, Jimmy Carter had a 47-point lead -- I
mean, Ronald Reagan had a 47-point lead, supposed to beat George H.W. Bush.
He ends up beating him by 27 points. Right?
Jimmy Carter was supposed to beat him by 29 heading into the last week
of the primary, wins by 10. When voters in New Hampshire make up their
mind in the last couple of days, the 15 percent will always make it up in
the last couple of days, this place is totally unpredictable.
MATTHEWS: Jennifer, let me ask you about that question,
unpredictability. Look at these numbers coming in here, 43 percent, for
example, for Romney, the former governor up here in Massachusetts, and only
5 percent for his latest challenger, Santorum.
I mean, I`m just wondering looking at all these numbers we have got
here, who can beat this guy up here? Look at this, Paul is at 16, Huntsman
at 10 and Gingrich at 9 and Santorum at 5. Who can catch 43?
DONAHUE: Well, you know, I just want to think back to 2008, when we
thought that Barack Obama was going to walk right past Hillary Clinton, and
that`s not what happened.
MATTHEWS: Yes.
DONAHUE: I`m looking back to 2000, when we thought that George W.
Bush would beat John McCain, and McCain won in a landslide by 19 points.
This is an unpredictable state. There are two debates over the
weekend, one that you will be part of. That`s going to be huge. That`s
going to be something that people will be watching. I remember, in 2008,
when both sides were open and independents were standing in those ballot
boxes shifting on their feet, trying to decide, who am I going to vote for?
This time, you`re going to see a lot of people who are Democrats, who
are registered independents pick up ballots for the Republican ticket and
vote for Huntsman and vote for Paul.
DONAHUE: They are going to send a message. New Hampshire always
sends a message. You know that.
MATTHEWS: What`s that poll up here, the American Research Group, or
whatever it`s called, ARG? What is that group up here, that poll?
DONAHUE: ... leaning right.
MATTHEWS: OK. That poll was used up here in `96 saying Dole was
going to win. I`m sorry, totally wrong because they were polling as if the
state was made up of old Yankees.
DONAHUE: Right.
MATTHEWS: They didn`t register all the new -- they didn`t have all
the new Irish-Italian, all the new gritty Massachusetts emigres up here,
and they all voted for Pat Buchanan.
DONAHUE: And a lot of those people are people who moved out of
Massachusetts because of Romneycare and because they are Tea Party voters
and they don`t like the way Massachusetts was being governed under Mitt
Romney. So there`s a real protest vote that could develop.
MATTHEWS: See, that`s why, if I were doing the campaign for Santorum
coming in here, I would say I`m going to go pick up all those disgruntled
Massachusetts emigres. I`m going to go after the Catholic vote.
PINDELL: Yes, but who is we? Right now, right now, right now, Newt
Gingrich is kicking the crap out of Santorum as we begin this. He has all
the buzz.
PINDELL: He`s got to consolidate this, and Jon Huntsman has got to
MATTHEWS: You`re wrong, you`re wrong, you`re wrong, you`re wrong,
James, unless I have not heard something in the last 20 minutes. When has
Gingrich, as you put it, kicked the crap out of Santorum?
PINDELL: Right now, he has double the...
MATTHEWS: Oh, in numbers.
PINDELL: Right. Of course.
MATTHEWS: But he won`t attack him.
PINDELL: They are best friends right now.
MATTHEWS: Right. OK. So, kick the crap out of is a term I use for
people that kick the crap out of people. Just a thought.
PINDELL: But, Chris, you have got to reject the premise.
DONAHUE: Chris, can I throw one thing in?
PINDELL: No, you can`t.
MATTHEWS: Just a minute. James first.
PINDELL: Reject the premise of the 43 percent. That`s not the
standard. The standard is going to be how close is someone going to be,
who is in second and who is in third and who is in fourth.
MATTHEWS: OK. Let me go back to my question for both of you`s
If it`s a final vote next Tuesday where the home team, Romney is 35
and Santorum is 25, is that a win, Jennifer, for Santorum?
DONAHUE: Yes, it`s a win for Santorum.
I also just want to point out that Gingrich is going negative. He
said he wouldn`t do it, and I think he will look like the old Newt Gingrich
and when he said that Romney was lying, he sounded like Bob Dole saying,
tell them to stop lying about my record.
MATTHEWS: I know, but sometimes when people say the other guy is
lying, they are telling the truth.
MATTHEWS: What do you think, 35/25, a win for Santorum?
PINDELL: If he knocks other people out, that`s a good day for Rick
MATTHEWS: OK. We have built the bar. We have built the bar -- 35/25
is a win, 10-point spread.
Anyway, thank you, guys. Thanks you, James Pindell. Thank you,
Jennifer. We will see you again soon.
Up next: Jon Stewart`s take on the Republican race is a candy lover`s
dream. You know those Whitman`s Samplers? That`s what it like trying to
find a really good chocolate candy in this Republican crowd. It`s a get
metaphor. The "Sideshow" is coming up.
You`re watching HARDBALL, from Manchester, as they say in England,
Manchester up here, only on MSNBC.
MATTHEWS: Back to HARDBALL. Now for the "Sideshow."
First up, if you know what it`s like -- think about what it`s like
going through a box of assorted chocolates, you know, the Whitman`s
Samplers type. You keep looking for the good one, the simple good-tasting
unadulterated chocolate candy.
Well, Jon Stewart compared that process to Republicans trying to get
through the presidential candidates this year, same thing, looking for a
good one.
JON STEWART, HOST, "THE DAILY SHOW WITH JON STEWART": Republicans are
going to try every chocolate in the box. You have got them all in there.
STEWART: You`re going to end up with the plain chocolate. You`re
going to. That`s where you`re going to end up,. You just are. You tried
the Bachmann over here. Too many nuts.
STEWART: All right. No good.
Perry, oh, the Perry looks great. Almond nougat. Who puts almond
nougat in chocolate?
STEWART: This one, that`s Santorum, the one you try and pawn off on
one of your cousins. Look at that. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. My chocolate
was alive, and now it`s bleeding.
So that`s it. You end up with Romney, the least bad chocolate. And
by the way, when you do ultimately end up with Romney, don`t try to pretend
this is the chocolate you wanted the whole time.
MATTHEWS: Brilliant. They keep looking, the Republicans, for the
perfect chocolate.
So is Romney the one, the one they are looking for? Really?
And as the Republican candidates wrap up their time in Iowa, they are
all heading here to New Hampshire for that final push for support before
next Tuesday`s primary. But Jon Huntsman has been here all the while
opting to bypass campaigning elsewhere.
But don`t think he didn`t keep an eye on last night`s caucus results.
Far from it. How does Huntsman think the shockingly tight finish between
Romney and Santorum tees things up for next week? Let`s watch.
JON HUNTSMAN (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Forgive me if I have a bit
of a New Hampshire accent. I have spent a little bit too much time here,
but I have got to tell you, coming out of Iowa, it was unbelievably
I mean, to think that Governor Romney with his team on the ground for,
what, six years now, basically did no better than he did last time, you
have got three people basically sharing a tie, and a whole lot of people
who were looking for an alternative. And now the marketplace, Joe, is
going to turn to New Hampshire, and nobody here really cares about what
happened in Iowa.
MATTHEWS: You know, of all the strange things in this strange
Republican race for president this year, Jon Huntsman trying to knock off
Mitt Romney in New Hampshire is the strangest of it all, and I still don`t
get what Huntsman is doing in this race.
And, finally, even though he only won by that narrow margin of eight
votes, actually eight people`s votes, in yesterday`s Iowa caucuses, Mitt
Romney`s first-place finish seems like an improvement from his second-place
finish in 2008, but let`s get to the numbers on this. Last night, Romney
came out with about 30,000 votes, about 25 percent of the total.
Four years ago, Romney scored about 30,000 votes, again about 25
percent of the total. Got it? Not exactly a big result for this season,
hardly a home run for the team of Romney. This could be a long road to the
nomination for him.
Up next: Last night`s results from Iowa exposed the fault line in the
Republican Party between those who want their nominee to look and act like
them and those who just want to beat President Obama. When`s the anybody-
but-Mitt-Romney going to get behind a single candidate? They don`t want
Romney, but who are they going to agree on?
And that`s ahead. You`re watching HARDBALL from Manchester, New
Hampshire, only on MSNBC.
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CNBC "Market Wrap."
The Dow gains 21. The S&P 500 and the Nasdaq finish virtually flat.
It was a painful day for Eastman Kodak shares, ending down 28 percent after
a published report that the company was preparing for a Chapter 11
bankruptcy filing. This week, the New York Stock Exchange warned Kodak it
would be delisted if shares stayed below $1 for more than six months.
Well, a different story for General Motors. The automaker saying
sales rose 13 percent last year. Popular models like the Chevy Cruze and
the Silverado helped GM sell more than 2.5 million vehicles in 2011.
Ford also reporting big sales gains for the past year. Its sales rose
11 percent thanks to strong demand for its Explorer SUV and the Fiesta
compact. And Yahoo! finished the day down 3 percent after the Internet
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RICK SANTORUM (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: If we have someone who can
go out to Western Pennsylvania and Ohio and Michigan and Indiana and
Wisconsin and Iowa and Missouri and appeal to the voters that have been
left behind by a Democratic Party that`s wants to make them dependent,
instead of valuing their work, we will win this election.
SANTORUM: Those are the same people that President Obama talked about
who cling to their guns and their Bibles. Thank God they do.
MATTHEWS: Welcome back to HARDBALL.
Rick Santorum`s success in Iowa last night has further splintered an
already fractured Republican group. There`s a strong ABM movement, anybody
but Mitt, in the party, you will those stop-Romney candidates ever coalesce
to form a united front. And if so, when does this all shake out?
Joe McQuaid is the longtime very esteemed publisher of "The New
Hampshire Union Leader" and has endorsed Newt Gingrich and it did so again
today with a big ad, I guess, and former Senator Judd Gregg is a Romney
So, I want you two guys to discuss this matter.
MATTHEWS: Are you the establishment, Senator? Are you the old Yankee
establishment that these McQuaid, Irish Italian and French Canadians are
out to beat? Is that what this is about?
FMR. SEN. JUDD GREGG (R), NEW HAMPSHIRE: No.
MATTHEWS: Is this a grudge match?
GREGG: This is about Barack Obama and the fact that he`s taken this
country on a path...
MATTHEWS: Oh. But you all agree on that. That`s not the fight.
GREGG: No, it`s not. Of course it is. It`s who can best take on
Barack Obama...
JOSEPH MCQUAID, PUBLISHER, "NEW HAMPSHIRE UNION LEADER": Exactly.
GREGG: ... and make a definitional event here, because the American
people understand that this country is on the wrong course.
And what they want is somebody who can bring us back on to the right
course. And in my opinion, Mitt Romney represents the type of person who
can run against Barack Obama, and Barack Obama can`t make him issue the way
he might other candidates.
MATTHEWS: I`m sorry.
MATTHEWS: Senator, you have made my point. The very fact that you
can`t call him a conservative is because he isn`t one.
Joe McQuaid, isn`t that it?
GREGG: Well, I didn`t think I said that.
GREGG: I`m a conservative. And I think he`s a conservative.
MCQUAID: Name one conservative thing that Mitt Romney has ever done
in his political career.
GREGG: Created jobs, I mean...
MCQUAID: No, conservative thing.
GREGG: ... been out there in the private sector and done the job
creation type of thing.
MATTHEWS: That`s a pretty good question. Where`s his conservative
credential from in terms of policy? Health care, tax policy, abortion
GREGG: My view...
GREGG: .... conservative credentials comes from running a state which
is extremely liberal and running it in a way which made it financially
solvent. When he left Massachusetts, it had a surplus.
MCQUAID: He projected nothing with any conservative credentials in
Massachusetts. On the other hand, Gingrich, who paid five grand for that
ad that wasn`t another endorsement...
GREGG: Gone on vacation again, Joe.
MCQUAID: Five grand.
MATTHEWS: OK, let`s talk about the kinds of people, because Pat
Buchanan ran up here. And I watched that fight with Dole. It seems like
things never change. There`s always the gritty sort of Catholic pro-lifer
against the establishment Yankee.
MCQUAID: Yes.
MATTHEWS: It does look like that from afar. And it looks like that
from looking at you two guys, too.
GREGG: Let`s be honest about it. It`s pretty hard to call Mitt
Romney an established Yankee. He is...
MCQUAID: He is an establishment -- he`s an establishment Mormon
GREGG: That`s a new phrase.
MATTHEWS: OK. Look at these numbers.
GREGG: .... is our party obviously always has these intramural
fights. It`s like the Democratic Party.
And as you go into a primary season, you expect that, but we will come
out of this primary season and we understand as a party that our person...
MATTHEWS: I do study your party, Senator, and I do respect those
traditions. It`s, whose turn is it?
And that has been the rule for 50-some years since I started watching
your party. It`s Nixon`s turn again and again and it`s the Bush`s turn
again and again and it`s Bob Dole`s turn. This clearly is Romney`s turn.
GREGG: No, no, this is the first election -- I have said this
numerous times. This is the first election I been involved in -- and I
have been involved almost as long as -- Joey is a lot older than I am --
but since `76, when I supported Reagan.
MCQUAID: In `80, when you supported Bush, and not Reagan.
GREGG: Yes, that`s correct. And then I supported Bush, and then I
supported Bush. And we had...
MATTHEWS: But isn`t it Romney`s turn? And why is the party rejecting
GREGG: No. No. This -- this -- it`s a very interesting situation.
We don`t have an heir apparent in our party.
MATTHEWS: Romney.
GREGG: Oh, he`s not. He did not start out as an heir apparent.
MCQUAID: Sure he did. He`s been running since --
GREGG: Running.
MATTHEWS: He`s perfect for you guys, old and a legacy.
GREGG: He`s person with the right message which is fiscal
MATTHEWS: OK. Let`s watch Newt Gingrich. He`s got his knife. Here
he is on Laura Ingraham, a perfect launching pad for an assassination
attempt, floating an anti-Romney alliance, I meant metaphorically, with
Rick Santorum. Let`s watch Newt go at it here.
LAURA INGRAHAM, RADIO HOST: Can you see a scenario under which the
two of you would align together to try to defeat the establishment
candidate Mitt Romney?
NEWT GINGRICH (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Absolutely, of course.
Rick and I -- you know, we have a 20-year friendship. We were both rebels.
We both came into this business as reformers. And the thing that`s
interesting is if you take the votes that you add from Perry and Bachmann,
you begin to see the size of the conservative vote compared to Romney. But
if you take, you know, Santorum and Perry and Bachmann and Gingrich, you
get some sense of what a small minority Romney really represents.
MATTHEWS: A small minority. Here he is in "Politico," by the way,
this morning. "Politico" reports on a planned meeting of conservatives to
find a consensus conservative candidate, "A group of movement conservatives
has called an emergency meeting in Texas for next weekend to find a
consensus Republican presidential hopeful. Conservatives are concerned
that a vote split between Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum among base voters
could enable Mitt Romney to win."
Senator Gregg, they are worried about your crowd. They are worried
about moderate Republicans.
GREGG: Well, to describe myself or Mitt Romney as moderate --
MATTHEWS: By their terms. Gary Bauer thinks you`re a moderate?
GREGG: You know, obviously within our party, people who --
MATTHEWS: James Dobson thinks you`re a moderate?
GREGG: I don`t know what James Dobson thinks. I haven`t read him
But the simple fact is our party`s differences are not dramatic.
They are -- there`s not chasm between these candidates. All these
candidates believe in very fundamental fiscal conservative issues, fiscal
conservative policy, and they also believe in socially conservative policy.
Some wear their social conservative policy more on their sleeve, some
don`t. And I happen to think that when you get into a general election,
it`s good to have a candidate who can speak to the general electorate as
well as conservatives.
MATTHEWS: But Romney has had a health care plan that provides
funding for abortion. That hardly subscribes to the beliefs of Gary Bauer
and James Dobson and others.
MCQUAID: And his Planned Parenthood getting one of the seats.
MATTHEWS: How is that consistent with conservative thinking? Romney
is a conservative?
GREGG: Yes, Romney is definitely a conservative. And he --
MATTHEWS: How did he get elected in Massachusetts then?
GREGG: Because he believed in fiscal responsibility, and you`ve got
a blue collar electorate in Massachusetts which often turns to
conservatives who believe in fiscal responsibility. Reagan ran fairly well
in Massachusetts, if you`ll recall.
MATTHEWS: Yes, he did.
GREGG: Because he believed in blue collar ideas which are basically
fiscal conservatism.
MCQUAID: Chris, we have a chat running in Sunday`s paper with the
positions of all the candidates on -- on an awful lot of these issues, and
I was struck by the fact that on paper there`s no difference between and
among candidates. They all say the same things.
But I think you`ve got to go to the record, again, what has Romney
done that`s really conservative versus what Gingrich has done that is
really conservative.
MATTHEWS: Would you recommend that your candidate Gingrich go after
Governor Romney hammer and tongue this Saturday night on the ABC debate and
NBC`s debate, go after him with everything he`s got?
MCQUAID: Indeed. Except --
GREGG: How could he sell papers if he doesn`t?
MCQUAID: The problem is the spin on that from a lot of media is
going to be the hateful, vengeful Gingrich, the bitter --
MATTHEWS: Yes, because that`s true.
MCQUAID: No, I don`t think it`s true at all.
MATTHEWS: Is it possible that Gingrich can help Santorum win up here
by going at Romney and giving -- and bleeding him while the votes don`t
come back to Gingrich`s advantage but go over to Santorum? It happens a
MCQUAID: This piece with Laura Ingraham, if she asked the same
question of Santorum, he`d be saying the same thing. Oh, yes, I can get
together with Newt, and Newt saying, I can get together with Rick.
I don`t think they will get together. One wants the other to get out
of way and I think New Hampshire will shake that out.
GREGG: I think New Hampshire will shake it out, too, as it
traditionally has. But you have to remember, at the end of the day, all
the Republicans are going to get together because all the Republicans are
concerned about the path of where we`re headed to which is a path towards
European welfare social type of governance -- and basically we don`t want
MATTHEWS: European social welfare type government.
GREGG: Social welfare state.
MATTHEWS: Social welfare state. OK.
GREGG: A very accurate phrase, by the way.
MATTHEWS: I heard the line. I hear now, as opposed to the Austrian
theory of what`s his name -- anyway, thank you -- of Ron Paul. The
Austrian method. Love you guys with these references.
Senator Judd, a good guy, retired from politics, as can you tell.
Joe McQuaid, a man who knows his enemies.
Up next, what does the White House and team Obama think about this
Republican fight? This is going to be fascinating with the inside guys
fighting -- they are not actually socialists.
GREGG: I didn`t say socialists. Social welfare state.
MATTHEWS: I know, I know what they think you think.
Anyway, HARDBALL from the armory in Manchester, New Hampshire -- back
in a minute.
REP. DEBBIE WASSERMAN SCHULTZ (D-FL), DNC CHAIR: For Mitt Romney,
it`s a really tough situation for him because when is a, quote-unquote,
"win a loss"? When you spent six years and more than $4 million running
for the second time trying to win the state of Iowa and you spent the most
and only beat the person who spent the least by eight votes, that -- that
demonstrates just how little support there is on the Republican side and
little enthusiasm there is for Mitt Romney`s candidacy. And he`s limping
into New Hampshire, and I think he`s really damaged.
MATTHEWS: We`re back. That was, of course, the Democratic National
Committee chair, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, the congresswoman from Florida,
earlier this morning, by the way, on FOX News, giving the Democratic spin,
if you will, on Mitt Romney`s showing last night.
But behind the scenes, team Obama may have preferred someone with
money like Rick Perry a more established candidate like Newt Gingrich, to
have emerged as the anti-Romney.
Joan Walsh is the editor at large at Salon.com, and David Corn is an
MSNBC political analyst and the D.C. bureau chief for "Mother Jones."
Let me get to the real heart of what I think is going on, and our
producers have thought this ahead of me. I got to tell you -- this is
fantastic thinking on their part.
Suppose Romney really is endangered right now, he`s scared. He sees
that 25 percent not getting any bigger than maybe 26, even nationwide.
It`s not growing. He`s not catching on among Republicans.
In order to catch on and beat the people who are leading the forces
against him, Santorum and Gingrich and the rest of them, and Perry, too, he
will have to sort of become one of them, move to the right, say I`m one of
you, me-too those guys, and if he does that, he puts himself into a boxed
canyon where the Democrats can close the trap on him, say, oh, yes, you
right-wing SOB, we`ve shown who you really are, we`re going to nail you in
Joan, is it that thinking? Is it that sophisticated as our producers
JOAN WALSH, SALON.COM: No one is as sophisticated as your producers
are, Chris.
MATTHEWS: OK, thank you.
WALSH: But having said that, the White House is pretty smart. I`m
sure that`s what they were thinking. I`m sure they were eating popcorn and
drinking beer last night, and thinking this is going to be fun, because,
OK, Santorum is not the guy with the most money, but you still have guys
with money in the race aiming at Mitt Romney and want to bloody Mitt
Romney. I mean, that angry Newt Gingrich we saw last night -- man, that
was kind of scary. I`m glad he`s not coming after me.
So, he`s still in it.
MATTHEWS: Come on. You`re glad he`s on your side. You`re glad he`s
going at the other guy, are you?
WALSH: It`s nice. Yes. Certainly.
You know, so he`s still in there. Perry apparently is still in
there. That was kind of a surprise, and Santorum is a guy who`s going to
do better in New Hampshire than people think, and Obama still has these
people throwing punches at one another, and not at him. This was a great
night for the White House.
Will this drive -- over at you, David -- will this drive Romney over
to the right, where you guys, I think, the people are supporting the
president -- and I certainly like him -- are going to get him in the corner
of the right and say, yes, we always knew you were a right winger because
you`re joined in that crowd when you had to, you`re not to be trusted?
DAVID CORN, MOTHER JONES: Listen, last night, it looked like Mitt
Romney is a prisoner in Groundhog Day. You know, four years after the last
election, he has the same number of votes. He`s not getting any steam.
He`s stalled at the same point we`ve been talking about, Chris, for six
months, between 20 percent and 25 percent. He`s not looking like a strong
It doesn`t really matter that much who the non-Romney candidate who`s
ascending at any given time. Now, it`s Rick Santorum. Maybe they`ll give
him a run for his money in New Hampshire, maybe not. But with Rick Perry
staying in, you know, he still has four or five people in his debates that
are going to come up this weekend. They`re going to be taking lots of pot
shots at him.
And it seems to be Newt Gingrich`s mission in life now to prove, to
prove beyond doubt that Mitt Romney is not a conservative Republican.
How does Mitt Romney respond to that? Exactly the way you just
described, that your producers described. He`s going to have to come out
there and act more right than he ever was and ever will be or ever was.
MATTHEWS: You know, I think there`s a couple ways they could pull
him to the right, Joan and David. He`s resisted saying a couple of the far
right battle cries. He`s refused so far, I believe -- I may be wrong on
this -- to call President Obama a socialist. He won`t play that game. He
won`t say, "I am a Tea Party guy." He will say certainly subtle things
around it, but won`t go completely whack job.
Do you think they can get him to do that, to get him -- as they pose
a greater threat to him in South Carolina and across the country?
WALSH: Yes, I think he`ll get nastier toward the president. I think
you`re seeing that. He started out his speech last night saying he`s a
nice guy and Rick Santorum is a nice guy, and then it changed over time. I
think the more he`s cornered, the more he`ll say that.
He`s going -- you know, despite what they`re trying to say about
Planned Parenthood, he has sold out Planned Parenthood. He has said that
he wants to defund them as badly as anybody else.
MATTHEWS: Yes, proving my point.
WALSH: He`s not quite for personhood, but he`s close. So, he`s
going to keep sliding that way. And that is going to make him very ugly in
the general election.
CORN: I mean, the problem, Chris, is that nobody believes what Mitt
Romney has to say when it comes to his ideological credentials, which puts
more of a burden on him to perhaps go further than he would otherwise if he
indeed feels threat end, which seems to be the case.
MATTHEWS: Yes, thank you.
Thank you, Joan and David. I think he always has his fingered
crossed for the moderates, hoping they`ll see him with his fingers crossed
and not listening to what he`s actually saying.
CORN: Yes.
MATTHEWS: When we return, "Let Me Finish" with the importance of
this commonwealth of New Hampshire and how it has a storied sense and
common sense about picking presidential candidates. It is to be paid
attention to.
You`re watching HARDBALL, only on MSNBC.
MATTHEWS: "Let Me Finish" tonight with this:
We`re back in New England. For me, it`s a great place to pick a
president. It`s cold this time of year, really cold up here in New
Hampshire. It`s a place where you have to be practical simply to live. If
you don`t prepare for winter, you don`t survive long. And if you don`t
have money coming in the door, you don`t keep the cold out.
Shelter has meaning up here. And that`s a good character to look for
in voters. Do they have their feet on the ground? Do they have a firm
grip on what it takes it make a living -- a good enough one to keep your
family warm when December turns to January, and the long gray winter checks
in, when heating oil makes the difference between warmth and survival and
freezing to death?
Again, it concentrates the minds. It makes for a common sense voting
habit. It makes for picking a presidential candidate who will be good for
your own economic wellbeing, not just a comfort, but the economic survival
for your family.
New Englanders have something else that concentrates their minds,
history. You can`t call yourself a New Englander and now about Bunker Hill
and Lexington and Concord and Paul Revere, and one if by land, and two if
by sea. You can`t live here and not know about the sons of liberty and the
battle for freedom that started this country.
So look to New England, and to New Hampshire voters to make a sound
decision. By next Tuesday, they`ll have met Romney more than once.
They`ll have a firm grip on Santorum and the Irish, Italians, French,
Canadians and Yankees at this part of the country will do their duty.
What they`ll do will make sense to them. It will seem like good
sense to the rest of the company. It very often does.
It`s why New Hampshire has won this job of holding the first primary.
It`s done it in the old-fashioned way. It`s earned it.
This is where Ike won, or Jack Kennedy won, where Ronald Reagan won,
it`s where Eugene McCarthy upset Lyndon Johnson and warned the country
about Vietnam. It`s where good things happen.
I`m really happen to be here and hope you share the experience
between now and next Tuesday night.
I really think things are going to happen up here. Santorum and
Gingrich and Romney are going to go at it. And what comes out will be
something far bigger than what arrived here today -- just watch.
And that`s HARDBALL for now. Thanks for being with us.
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Beautiful women, sweet oranges, 3000 tapas bars and Real Betis - that's my kind of European Football Weekend. Forget your swimming with dolphins nonsense: a visit to the Estadio Benito Villamarín has been on my 'things to do before I die' list for years. Betis are a fun club; one with a fan base possessing an all important - to me anyway - self-deprecating sense of humour. Think Manchester City before the money started to roll in. It may have been the thick end of 40 degrees today, but that didn't stop a mad Englishman and around 40,000 Béticos going out in the midday sun.
They're in debt of course. It's an all too familiar tale in Spain, and not just in footballing circles. I think it's fair to say Betis are one of the clubs at the centre of the recent strike action in Spain having not paid their players, past and present, large sums of money. Their financial strife sings to the tune of €80m if rumours are to be believed. Best purchase some slippers in their club shop I thought, that'll endear me to the locals. Always thinking, me. It was a tricky choice mind you; they had three (three) variations. Gasp.
So with that financial turmoil - and don't worry we'll get onto beer and stuff later - there were no big pre-season signings for the Verdiblancos to get excited about. Aside that is from the towering Roque Santa Cruz, bless him, who has given up a life's supply of free chicken at Blackburn Rovers to move, on loan, to the stadium formerly known as the Manuel Ruiz de Lopera. The ground regained it's old name around November time when the sort-of-owner (it's complicated), Luis Oliver was trying to curry favour with the fans. It worked. Evidently, de Lopera, the majority shareholder at the time, robbed the club of money and has since been kicked into touch in favour of the imminently more popular, Rafael Gordillo - an ex-player. All traces of the Lopera name have been removed from the stadium.
The opponents today, Mallorca were led by yer actual Michael Laudrup. He's in a mood with his owners having lost midfield dynamo, Jonathan De Guzman to Villarreal in exchange for €8m on the final day of the transfer window. Also, and rather disappointingly for me personally, there was no Pierre Webo on their teamsheet. He's been sold to Istanbul BB. That saddens me because huevo - it sounds the same as Webo, trust me - in Spanish means egg, and it used to make me chuckle with eggscitement (groan - Ed.) watching him play. Stepping into Webo's size 9's is former Sevilla (boo!) youth prodigy, Alejandro Alfaro. A good player and all that, but nothing doing on the comedy names front. Tsk.
Madre Mia, Mr Last. You've done your homework, no? Well, if you spend any amount of time in the company of Jesus of Cool, Adam Boyle, and his wife, Kate - like I did, then you too would be able to arm yourselves with a volume of newly gained Spanish football knowledge. Boyle is the Editor of one my favourite football blogs, Ooh Betis. It's rich in wit, verve, information and, let's face it, it has a bloody brilliant name.
I met Adam and Kate in a bar at 10:15 (10:15!) on the morning of the match. They're both part of Real Betis' 40,000 or so socios (season ticket holders). It seemed a little strange even by EFW standards to be lowering beers so early in the morning, but well, I was on my holidays. There was countless bars to choose from surrounding the ground, and all of them looked inviting. The ultras all hang out in one street, and make themselves look fairly obvious, so unless you want to get involved in their antics, everywhere is as safe as houses.
Tickets for the match were priced up at €45-90. Incredible when you consider Adam and Kate's season tickets only cost €250. That's unless you fancy it in the away end - that'll only set you back €40. I did actually consider this, it would have been a giggle being the only person in the visitors section, no? I could have pinned up a huge flag declaring the legend 'Billy No Mates'. It's one for the EFW brilliant ideas dept. to consider at a later date. I opted out here because I'd have had a bit of explaining to do to the wife had the police escorted me back to the island of Mallorca after the match.
Individual match tickets for La Liga tend to be high anyway. According to Adam, the politics of pricing at Betis is quite complicated: over the last couple of seasons they've had quite a lot of games when tickets have been heavily discounted, which led to an avalanche of complaints from season ticket holders who grumbled that they wouldn't have shelled out for the season had they of known. Betis pitch season ticket prices relatively low, because they want fans to attend every match, and not just when Barca, Real Madrid and Sevilla roll up.
Incredibly, EFW is quite well known in Spain and my main man, Manolo Reyes at the club had sorted me out a press pass. This didn't prevent the usual Spanish bureaucratic chaos ensuing as I was sent from one gate to another, and met with blank expressions and shoulder shrugs all-round, when trying to actually pick the thing up. I made it in just before the teams took to the pitch and the fans belted out their terrific club anthem. The first thing that struck me was the noise; hugely impressive for a midday Sunday kick-off, not to mention the fact it was hotter than Greece. The fans had been starved of football here for 98 days since the end of last season, and with the strike and everything, so they were just bursting to rattle through the songbook.
Beeeti, Beeeti. That was the second thing. They drop the 's' on the end of words in this part of Spain. So, I've been typing Betis for the best part of ten paragraphs, whereas the fans actually refer to themselves as Beti. My theory is that it's simply too hot for locals to pronounce whole words, hence the shortened versions. No complaints from me.
Brilliantly, there was a giant palm tree running around the pitch. It was the club mascot which, to the untrained eye, actually looked like a giant leek. Around the pitch the palm tree went, leaping like a salmon when the players names were announced. Superb stuff.
Adam has already written an actual match report here, so that's saved me the bother - not that we ever do it anyway on these pages. I will say that on at least two occasions, the main stand that I was in shook to its vast concrete foundations. Once when Betis were denied a penalty just before half time, and the other when the deserved goal finally came just before the end. I was fairly high up in the stand, and I'll level with you, I was shaking with nervous excitement thinking the whole thing was going to collapse around my ears. The place was officially rocking. There was also an incident on the stroke of half time when the laws of physics were broken; Betis hit the post and then the bar twice in the space of ten seconds. I've never seen so many people blow out their cheeks with disbelief at once.
A win for the home side then and a happy bunch of fans back in the bar afterwards. As I type, Betis are above both Barca and hated city neighbours, Sevilla. Giddy times indeed for Béticos, but even when the bad times inevitably come this season - they'll still be around in big numbers. Betis are back were they belong in La Liga - they are a terrific club and they've stolen my heart. Then again, I'm drinking this magnificent mix of coffee and brandy on my balcony overlooking the city writing this nonsense now, and it's very hard not to get carried away with the beauty of this place. You should try it. Adios.
Like this? The previous day EFW went to Cordoba v Numancia.

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Thu Jul 09 1998 12:00: I'm just hanging out on groucho here counting down the last few minutes until S-Second.
Woo! And there it is! Here is a copy of the countdown for you poor schmoes who missed it.
My GPA for last quarter was 3.35 or thereabouts. This bring my cumulative GPA up to 3.101.
Later: Ah, happy birthday to me. Adam Kaplan and Peter Hodgson are among those who sent me birthday greetings the electronic way. Actually, they're it. But Adam made quite a show, making a banner appear on my screen when I was logged onto fire.
Oh yeah, I forgot to mention that I watched part of the The Twilight Zone marathon (attack of The The Twilight Zone Marathons) a few days ago, and some of them were actually pretty good. There was a really funny part in one where this guy could create people by describing them into a tape recorder, and destroy them by burning the appropriate length of tape. At the end Rod Serling came on the set and was talking about how implausible the bit was, and the guy got mad and burned some tape and Rod Serling disappeared. I thought that was hilarious.


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Finland & Japan – exceptions to "the rule"? – from jayman!
Genetic pacification in medieval Europe – from peter frost!
Scientists May Have Finally Unlocked Puzzle of Why People Are Gay – an epigenetic cause of gayness?
Restless Genes – drd4.
Reconstructed Face of Extinct "Hobbit" Species Is Startlingly Humanlike
Polymorphisms and Load – (more stuff i barely understand) from greg cochran!
Penn Study shows resistance to cocaine addiction may be passed down from father to son – in rats anyway.
Where to be born vs. where people are being born – from the awesome epigone!
The mu opioid receptor genotype may be a marker for those who drink for alcohol's rewarding effects – OPRM1.
bonus: Lead poisoning in Samurai kids linked to mom's makeup
bonus bonus: OU Study Suggests the Bacterial Ecology That Lives on Humans Has Changed Dramatically in the Last 100 Years
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David and Billy Werth are masters of the Inverted Tail Grab. As you can see from the video, as one brother speeds along an Indiana tarmac aboard a motorcycle, the other flies a bi-plane inches from the ground — upside-down — just ahead of the bike. The brother on the bike then has to grab the rudder of the inverted plane without a) running out of road and b) without wrecking the bike, the plane, or both. [Grayout via The Awesomer]


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Mitch Moreland will be the guy at first base for Texas if Prince Fielder's neck problem keeps him out for any length of time.
His bat was a big boost a few hours after a players-only meeting for a slumping team trying to halt a slide down the AL West standings.
Moreland hit a tiebreaking homer in the seventh inning, Alex Rios had a two-run triple and the Rangers avoided a three-game sweep with a 6-2 victory against the Toronto Blue Jays on Sunday.
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"I'd like to see him do that more often, then he can get more playing time," manager Ron Washington said after Moreland doubled in his final at-bat. "Mitch is a big part and today he stepped up huge for us."
Washington expects Fielder to play in the next game Tuesday night against Seattle after he had an injection designed to ease the pain and pressure of a disk problem in his neck that he says goes back to last season.
If the outlook on Fielder changes, Moreland says his approach won't.
"We've had to deal with adversity all year," said Moreland, whose second homer of the season was a line drive just over the wall in right field off R.A. Dickey (4-4) to break a 2-all tie. "You come in every day ready to play."
The Rangers, who snapped a four-game losing streak and stayed seven games behind Oakland in fourth place in the AL West, had gone 23 innings without an extra-base hit when Rios drove one off the right-center wall in the fourth.
Juan Francisco and Edwin Encarnacion homered for the Blue Jays, who had won a franchise-record six straight in Texas, including a four-game sweep in their only visit last year.
"Great teams find a way to sweep series," Dickey said. "We're definitely going in the right direction, but there's more there that we need to do. Today was a game we probably should have won."
The Rangers were in position to add to the lead Moreland gave them in the seventh when Toronto manager John Gibbons got the Blue Jays out of the jam with a challenge after three previous visits with umpires ended without a video review.
Michael Choice lined out to Francisco, who tagged third base with his glove as Robinson Chirinos was diving back to the bag. Dale Scott called Chirinos safe, but a review lasting nearly 3 minutes overturned it and gave Toronto an inning-ending double play.
Gibbons' move ended up not mattering much when Shin-Soo Choo and Adrian Beltre had run-scoring hits in the eighth.
Moreland hit his second homer of the season after Rios just beat Francisco's throw for an error on one of the plays Gibbons considered challenging. Toronto had a season-high four errors.
Texas rookie right-hander Nick Martinez left with a 2-1 lead after five innings but lost the chance for his first big league win on Encarnacion's ninth homer, a shot to left field off Aaron Poreda in the sixth.
Poreda (2-0) ended up getting the win after a scoreless seventh, and closer Joakim Soria pitched a shaky but scoreless ninth in a non-save situation on his 30th birthday.
Francisco's home run into the upper deck in right field was among four hits allowed by Martinez in a solid outing that should give him a chance to stay in the rotation with four Texas starters on the disabled list. He had never pitched above Double-A before this year.
"Each time he takes the ball it's an experience for him," Washington said. "He knew where we were today and he did a good job just getting us through as many pitches as he could handle."
Dickey allowed three hits and four runs in falling to 12-12 against the team that drafted him and gave him his first shot in the majors 13 years ago.
NOTES: Rangers 2B Rougned Odor was a late scratch with a sore right wrist. He was replaced in the No. 9 spot by Luis Sardinas. ... Sunday marked the first of nine day games in a stretch of 14 for the Rangers. That hasn't happened since 1984. ... Julio Franco, who spent five of his 23 seasons in Texas and was 49 when he played his final game in 2007, threw out the ceremonial first pitch.


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However as we have an experienced operation ourselves in the Maldives as well as a massive 5 star operational background, we are qualified to audit the operations that we represent. With 6 years of putting together surf experiences around the world we have attained a massive knowledge base in what our clients want in a surf trip and what should be a minimum requirement for them.
Although we are unable to inspect all the 300 experiences that we represent, we have been able to visit the majority of operations between all team members in our network. We do this to ensure that we have the best operations for our clients and that we have done our due diligence to ensure every trip has the best chance of success. Now we understand that there is no way to guarantee that something won't go wrong on your surf holiday, but we are confident that we only represent the best operators that can and will deal with any issues that occur and do the right thing by their guests. What we have created to ensure that we have the best operators is the following "20 point checklist" that all operations need to supply us with before we list their surf experience.
However we do need to reiterate that although TPW have done the maximum due diligence possible to ensure you have a successful holiday, it is impossible to guarantee and you need to be aware it is unlikely but possible something may still go wrong. Even when surf camps and resorts have the highest level of maintenance and care, it is still a fact of life that things may not be perfect and unforeseen circumstances can arise.
We are solely a travel agent working for both the operators and yourself, and we are not responsible or liable for any issues you may have with the operator, as per the Travel Agents Act. We will guarantee though, that we will work for all our clients that have reason to be unhappy with an operation, and we will use our strongest influence to ensure the operator does the right thing by all our clients.
20 Point Checklist – Surf Boat Charters
- Up to date boat survey
- Up to date maintenance history check
- Log book clarification
- Insurance policy information
- Skipper pre-departure inspection checklist
- Boat emergency & safety protocol
- Breakdown/disruption protocol with alternate options
- Natural disaster protocol
- Operator/owner reference check – min 2 references
- Captain & crew profile & credentials
- Ground crew info & contact
- Emergency contact procedures – 24/7 – min 3 contacts
- Communication device list – inc Sat phone
- Surf guide profile & credentials
- Specifications report inc power outlets
- Cabin configuration / Floor plan
- Tender / support craft report & information
- Booking procedures with Terms and Conditions
- Example itinerary – including regions accessed
- Extra activities & additional equipment list
20 Point Checklist – all surf experiences we represent
- Current licensing/certification
- Analysis of Company Policies (Culture and Values)
- Social and Environment Sustainability Policies (Local Communities)
- Insurance policy information
- Local Emergency & safety protocol
- Natural disaster protocol
- Emergency contact procedures – 24/7 – min 3 contacts
- Proximity and standard of local doctors/hospitals
- Operator/owner reference check – min 2 references
- Operations Manager profile & credentials
- Surf guide profile & credentials
- Tender / surf support craft report & information
- Access to all accommodation information/local area information and current photos
- Specifications report inc safety deposit boxes/room safes
- Internet and communication accessibility for clients
- Arrival and departure transfer services/procedures/contacts
- Booking procedures with Terms and Conditions
- Extra activities & additional equipment list
- Media Analysis (Trip Advisor reviews etc)
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Protecting IP
This is a great question and we get it quite a lot. It demonstrates passion and personal commitment to innovation. While the topic will get discussed more fully at the Friday night introduction, here are some things to consider:
- Whoever pitches the idea needs to make their IP intentions clear to the team over the weekend. It is really up to the idea owner to negotiate and be transparent with their team members.
- Most ideas have already been thought of somewhere in the world and it is those entrepreneurs that can execute well with laser customer / patient focus that will succeed. The focus of the weekend is on executing and validating a business, not so much on the an invention or discovery specifically.
- There is of course a range of research knowledge and invention where inadvertent public disclosure can be a really big deal. One way participants can deal with this at a Weekend is to wrap that knowledge inside a "secret sauce" package. Just pitch that the package does something special without revealing any IP inside, and then focus the team on the weekend to use that package to build a business upon. Sometimes easier said than done
- There is also a possibility for you to bring along your own Non-disclosure Agreement and convince folk that want to join your idea to to signup (good luck with that!!). As organisers, we will not be able to be a party to those Agreements or represent them as being appropriate and you may scare off possible collaborators.
- If in the end, you are really worried, then just don't pitch the idea. Bring along a different idea or join another team and learn through collaborating on their idea. You will learn heaps about the startup process either way that you can then apply to your original idea later.
As a final comment, there is no formal protection for IP by the organisers at the Weekend. It is a public event, the pitches will be made to a public audience and you will be working in an open space with collaborators and mentors. Keep any secret sauce up your sleeve.


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It is Democracy in action. Iowa's presidential caucuses have been criticized for being the starting point of the 2008 elections because the state is too rural, too small and, well, too white.
The state's biggest city — Des Moines — has a population of 200,000 or slightly more than Little Rock, Ark. Outside the Des Moines metropolitan area of 500,000 are literally hundreds of small towns and millions of acres of corn and soybeans.
Although they've been criticized for lack of participation — only 124,000 Democrats caucused in 2004 — Iowans treasure this role, pushing this year's event up to Jan. 3 so they could maintain their spot in the lineup. (The New York Times wrote it hoped this year's Iowa-New Hampshire "rush to judgment" would be the last.)
The caucuses are unlike anything else in American politics. The meetings, held in each of the state's 1,781 precincts, are loud and seemingly disorganized. But they work (96 percent of the precincts reported results by 9 o'clock on caucus night).
The first and most daunting challenge is determining how many people are there. Each candidate must receive 15 percent of the vote to be considered a viable candidate and remain in contention.
At one of the larger precincts in Ames, would-be voters had to count off after filling every seat in the local high school auditorium. The count: 628 or half again as many voters as local campaign staffs predicted.
Voters are asked to move to an area of the auditorium with others who favor their candidate. Sens. Joe Biden and Christopher Dodd, Gov. Bill Richardson and Dennis Kucinich attracted fewer than 94 votes (15 percent). (Biden and Dodd withdrew that night.)
Caucus leaders give their followers 30 minutes to change allegiances. After some "negotiating," those voters re-align themselves with other candidates. The final tally: Barack Obama, 258; John Edwards, 180; and Hillary Clinton, 177.
Most of the attendees at the Ames High meeting were white. Yet they gave 41 percent of their vote to Obama. And not all Obama supporters were young, first-time caucus goers, as the national media would have you believe.
Many Clinton supporters were women, who believe the former first lady has a better-than-even chance of being the first woman president. John Edwards, whose accent seemed to lose some of its Carolina twang in Iowa, attracted a cross-section of voters.
It is small, but where else besides New Hampshire could candidates get so up close and personal. In 24 hours around New Year's Day, voters in Ames could hear stump speeches by Obama, Clinton, Edwards, Biden, Richardson and Romney and never leave the city limits.
Rural? Yes, you won't see a Manhattan skyscraper or 16-lane LA freeway anywhere in Iowa. But what's wrong with having a major primary decided by voters who are surrounded by corn and soybean fields, cattle feeding lots and ethanol plants?
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|Food Lover's Guide To Baltimore
I haven't gotten my copy yet, but Kyle had the sense to pre-order on Amazon. I had thought the book was coming out in the spring, but Kyle got his copy this week. Here is his first look:
Even though I have lived in HoCo for 15 years and MoCo/PG for 20 years before that, I'm still Washington suburbs centric when it comes to food. With the help of HowChow, I feel I've mastered the HoCo food scene. However, I'm really not as familiar with the Baltimore food scene as I should be. This is where the new book fits in. It arrived January 3, much earlier than I expected.
The book starts with a list of the best foodie blogs in the Baltimore area, HowChow included. Lists the major food events then launches into all the different Baltimore regions. Each region gets a foodie faves, food landmarks and specialty stores, markets and producer listing section. Baltimore County gets its own three sections, and HoCo is included in the 'worth the drive' section with other adjoining counties. Regrettably, market/specialty food stores are not included in this section. Out of 25 entries, HoCo is represented in 16 of them. So if you follow HowChow, you won't see many HoCo surprises. However, Sushi Sono is there but Sushi King is not. I bet there will be some lively discussion about what made it and what didn't. The book concludes with wineries/breweries, food trucks and recipes from local restaurants including a recipe for raw beet ravioli from the vegan HoCo fav Great Sage.
What I really like about the book is how comfortably written it is. Minxeats has a nice friendly informative style and includes a lot of local history about each region. I think the book will really help me crack into the Baltimore food scene especially the markets and specialty stores in Baltimore and Baltimore county.The link for the book goes to Amazon though an affiliates program. They give me credit when people buy through the link. So I encourage that!


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Alice Medrich, author of Sinfully Easy Delicious Desserts has been dubbed the chocolate queen for reasons all too obvious (and delicious), but after making our way through her latest volume, we want to rename her the food processor queen. She's incorporated this workhorse of an appliance into many of the recipes within Sinfully Easy Delicious Desserts, thus cutting the labor factor down immensely without sacrificing quality or taste.
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Bob Bowman sat down with Mike Ozanian from Forbes and YES Network's Forbes SportsMoney to discuss major league baseball's streaming product and the depths of its awesomeness. If you feel like ending it all, feel free to watch that video up there.
If you don't feel like blowing your brains out, allow me to summarize. This is a five minute-ish video where major league baseball shows off its mystifying talent to be remarkably popularity despite itself. According to the video, various big time media outlets—even Glenn Beck!—use MLB's streaming technology. It makes sense that baseball would have the best option and that others would crave it. Baseball has the most games to show across the country so it sort of had to develop something useful.
The best part, though, is Bowman warning that baseball cannot be blind to history. He references what happened to the music industry. The presumption is he means Napster. You remember Napster, that awesome time when people stopped buying shitty albums because they could get the songs they wanted without all the garbage filler, and they could get it for free. Video online is where it's at these days though, Bowman notes, so baseball needs to make sure it stays ahead of the curve so it doesn't piss off paying customers so much that they try to find a less restrictive avenue to enjoy the product.
It's a smart idea. I'm glad I was able to hear about it and watch it without sitting through 30 seconds of commercials, or find it buried in a small player at the end of the page. It looks so good up there at the top of the page, prominently displayed for maximum exposure.
Hopefully if you look back on this post tomorrow, you won't have to go through any of that either.
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'European Football Weekends is a perennial source of pleasure' The Guardian
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I can only imagine how weird it is to turn up in an empty stadium. A really good piece there.
We are starting a new blog in a couple of weeks, you should come check it out then at www.bornoffside.net
- 19 December 2010 at 10:42
I disagree that football without fans is nothing. Football is beautiful, football culture is ugly in many cases. If a club's fans misbehave, severe punishments are well deserved. I remember there used to be times when banter and segregation of fans were inexisting, people just socialised and chatted while watching the game. Those times should come back. Of course a passionate crowd is fantastic, but no violence is needed for that. Football may be nothing without fans, but I prefer a 50 fans that are non-violent than a 50000 where you feel intimidated.
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Bill has covered sports for the U-T since 1967. He has been involved in covering the Padres since 1983 with that being his primary assignment since 1995. Center is also the newspaper's lead motorsports reporter (since 1976) and boating writer (since 1969). Over more than four-and-a-half decades with the newspaper, Center has also covered San Diego State, soccer, boxing, the Chargers, USD and the preps. He has been on site for the 1984 Olympics, two soccer World Cups, both World Series involving the Padres, eight America's Cups in sailing, more than 60 major title fights, 35 Indy 500s and 38 Rose Bowls, in addition to five Super Bowls. He is a past president of the Baseball Writers Association of America. A San Diegan since 1950, Center attended San Diego State.


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It all began in 1887 with one man's obsessive attention to detail. Our founder was a true perfectionist with a belief of never compromising – ever. In recent time these ideals have been revived in the Halda Concept. Essentially, it is based on a time platform and interchangeable time modules. Ultimately, it is a passionate meeting point between fine watchmaking and the eternal dream of a perfect timepiece. Each module is developed for optimal performance in its respective field and the patented locking system of the platform allows you to change between them – that is why the Halda Concept stands for functional superiority.
After years of developing the Halda Concept, we set our aim to create a watch for the most extreme environment known – space. In close cooperation with astronauts, an instrument with advanced functions evolved – the Halda Space Discovery, a watch certified by astronauts and tested in space. Our next challenge, to create the world's first genuine racing watch, was realized in the Race Pilot – a unique racing instrument developed with race engineers and tested by Formula One drivers. Without compromising with design, function or quality the Halda Concept unites the tradition of mechanical watchmaking with the advantages of modern technology. Welcome to Halda Watch Co.
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BitCrew and Learning ZoneXpress Develop iPad Game for Healthy Kids
Woodbury-based mobile software company, BitCrew LLC, and Learning ZoneXpress recently teamed-up on creating something fun and educational to keep kids busy for hours.
Food Heroes is a playful and equally informative iPad nutrition app available now on the for $1.99.
The application is really three games in one; the first, called Word Find, provides kids with fun facts about the foods they consume to reinforce healthy eating habits. A second, Match Two, enables player to use their matching skills by pairing food pictures. Coloring Book, the third in the series, involves creating colorful works of art using just the tip of a finger.


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Fun and games this Easter weekend with cousins.
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I again ask the underneath asked in a different thread. It is the only thing preventing me from complete and consistent usage of Pocomail:
Mekkinz wrote:Sent Mail - it's pretty standard in IMAP clients for, as well as the mail being sent to whoever, for it to be copied to the Sent Folder on the IMAP server. Can't see how that is set up, either. [asked by Mekkinz, Mon Oct 24, 2005, in thread 36138]
He received the following answer from Robin, Moderator:
robin wrote:I can certainly answer this one, although it may not be the answer you want to hear: in the current release of PM4, sent mail is not automatically routed to the IMAP sent mail folder, only to the local one; although there are work-arounds. This is a requested feature that didn't make it into the production release, although it is high on the feature list for the next point upgrade I understand.
1. drag from the local folder and drop into the "Sent" folder on the server (I understand that this works)
2. bcc outgoing messages to yourself, use the filters on the IMAP server to send them to the sent folder
My Question now relates to Workaround 2. I have tried Workaround 1, and with the number of accounts I have and the frequency I use them, Workaround 1 is too painful for words. Easy to drag to the wrong folder, e.g.
So ... how am I supposed to set up a filtering system directly upon my IMAP server to achieve this? What file do I look for, how do I access it, what do I write within that file? As far as I can see, the server is using qmail for IMAP. The webmail way of accessing mail is with Horde, but I generally use a client.
[minorirritation on]I can only afford a 'self-managed' server, so my ISP is unlikely to do this for me unless I pay a substantial amount of moolah. I would rather try to do this myself first, and believe that it must be possible. I also sincerely hope that Pocomail is in fact incorporating this feature into the next release as it is the sole thing preventing me from exclusive usage of Pocomail. At present, I only use it for my POP accounts, and use an alternative for IMAP. This is a pain. I was very surprised indeed when 4 came out and it still did not incorporate this feature, and it has not been included in any update since. Thank you.[/minorirritation off]


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