>> partly because there's part of a dead zone. what's happening with all of the primaries being moved up from february to january, now there's a little bit of a dead zone there in february. and if newt is the guy, then everybody's going to go after him for an uninterrupted period of time, which he can't really necessarily answer with primary victories, if he's going to have them. a couple things about him, though. he can see around corners. it's not just that he lives off the land. he does have a strategic mind. he attacked paul ryan for social engineering. the fact is paul ryan now is offering a different plan. he's now, in effect, confirming what newt said. newt's problem is that the people who know him best, who work with him when he was in the congress, who worked with him on drafting the contract with america, most of those people are not with him. why are they not with him? why are they not with him? >> a real conservative, peggy noonan, who wrote for president reagan and writes beautifully in "the wall street journal" every saturday, that's the fact i read it on saturday is her, "what is striking is the extraordinary