the economy works and i do and that's one reason i'm in this race. >> gingrich took romney's attack on him as a compliment. gingrich told the "washington post," you're talking to a guy who was dead in june. i'm now being attacked by the former front-runner. tonight on fox news, gingrich described the campaign's new dynamic this way. >> people are saying, you know, i think we need newt gingrich because we need somebody who can debate obama. we need somebody who has actually done it before. we need somebody with very substantial big ideas. and so i think whereas i would have thought originally it was gonna be mitt and not mitt, i think it is going to be newt and not newt and that's very different formula than frankly -- having to redesign our campaign strategy because we are at least 60 days ahead of where i thought we'd be. >> that was gingrich playing softball with sean hannity tonight. fox news has clearly chosen its candidate for president and it is former fox news player newt