GRETA VAN SUSTEREN, FOX NEWS HOST: Well, former governor Mitt Romney making the obvious official, he's running and he makes the announcement that he's running for president. But another former governor steals his thunder as Governor Palin heads to New Hampshire, too, hosting a clambake along her "One Nation" book tour.
Joining us is former adviser to President Clinton, author of "Revolt," Dick Morris. Nice to see you, Dick.
DICK MORRIS, DICKMORRIS.COM: Good to be here in person. I always do your show remotely.
VAN SUSTEREN: Well, and it is fun. Well, this certainly is quite -- this is quite stunning what's going on in politics. And now Governor Romney wanting to make the big announcements, and some say overshadowed by Governor Sarah Palin in the same state.
MORRIS: Well, yes, he is overshadowed in terms of coverage, but that's good for Romney. He's the frontrunner. He's got the largest vote share. In my own polling, I have him at about 25, Sarah Palin at 16 and Gingrich at 11 and everybody else at 8 or less.
You don't want all the scrutiny if you're frontrunner. You don't want the media tearing you apart. You want to advance in other people's shadows. Barack Obama got the nomination because everybody was thinking of Hillary Clinton. He won the election because everybody was thinking of George Bush.
And for the last four months, everybody's been thinking about Donald Trump. Now everybody's thinking about Sarah Palin. And in the meantime, Mitt Romney is raising money, recruiting volunteers, building his organization. That's not bad.
VAN SUSTEREN: Well, the polls have him as the frontrunner. They have for some time. But are polls fickle? Because, I mean, we're now hearing that maybe Governor Huckabee isn't out. I mean, there's -- there's some sort of rumblings there. And we -- and Donald Trump told us last night right here that maybe he'll run as an independent. Governor Pataki of New York might run. Governor Rick Perry might run. Mayor Giuliani is in New Hampshire. I mean, you know, so the names go on and on. And there's a congressman who also might throw his hat in the ring. So how much can we - - what can we take away from these polls?
MORRIS: And Senator Jim DeMint in South Carolina. Of the people you named, he's the only one that I think actually might. I don't think Huckabee is getting in, and I don't think Trump would run as an independent. I think if he did, he would reelect Obama, and I don't think he wants to do that.
The polls are very fickle. But the way this is going to evolve, in my view, is that you're going to have Romney against somebody. And it might be Palin, if she runs. It might be Gingrich, although I think his negatives sometimes hurt him. It might be one of the less known candidates, Bachmann or Cain or Pawlenty or Santorum. Be one of those people.
And there's a sifting-out process to determine who opposes Romney in the semi-final. Romney probably loses Iowa because he did last time and probably will again. And it's a real fight between Bachmann and Pawlenty and Cain and Palin, if she runs, for who wins Iowa. My own guess is that Bachmann probably does because I don't really believe Palin is going to run.
Then you go to New Hampshire, where Romney probably does win and maybe the person who won Iowa finishes second. And at that point, those two candidates, Romney and somebody else, duke it out straight to the end of the process. The interesting thing...
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