if this is a quick strike by newt gingrich, winning iowa, winning new hampshire, or south carolina and florida, the establishment, in the past, would rally to romney. the establishment has no great love for him. they look at that interview and panic and say yes, we don't want newt gingrich at the top of the ticket, but look at mitt romney. we don't want him, either. he's got to gain back control of his image and be seen as being other than an unprincipled flip-flopper. >> joe, you took a swipe at him as telling him someone who wants to tell you what you want to hear. >> without naming him. but i guess it wasn't that subtle. >> even i got it. >> we had to go back into the files like you guys do on "meet the press" to whack him this morning. we have a cartoon running of him running a dog sled, and he's telling the dog sled, go left, go right, go left, go right. actually it's not him, it's his father from 1968. he had the same problem of going back and forth.