it was killed and eaten by its own party. when you talk about a principled conservative, what principled conservative would take $1.6 million from fannie mae to act as a shield? this ad is a complete joke. winning our future must have a very short memory 'cause the last time i checked when newt gingrich was on the national stage, he shut down the government and got president bill clinton reelected. so if that's the record that he wants to run on, i say bring newt on. >> eric: we just heard dick morris tell us that he was in part responsible for the budget -- deficit going from negative to a positive. jonathan, talk to us a little bit about that division between the republican party, the conservatives, the -- i'm sorry, the establishment republicans and the conservative republicans, is there too much of a divide to really coalesce behind one candidate and beat barak obama? >> i think it's exaggerated by the news media. what gingrich's strategy here is to become the antiestablishment conservative. this is a strategy that when it works, works big. this is reagan's strategy in 1976 and 1980.