disclosure filing if i am correct, mitt romney holds an i.r.a. with a value, i think it s multiple millions, somewhere between 20 million and 100 million. there are wide spans that are in financial disclosure forms you fill out. why would you have an i.r.a. with that much money in it? the general idea of an i.r.a. is your typical middle-class earner. you pay taxes when you draw it out, thus reducing your tax burden. when you re dealing with an i.r.a. of that size, what s the story? there s been a lot of speculation about what s going on with that i.r.a.? there has been speculation that he put low-value stock in it. mostly like what happened is he has a retirement fund at bain that was in a blocker, a blocker is an offshore entity designed to block u.s. taxes.
coming out. and because of the way he treated it, i m going to offer up a prediction for two months now he ll be dealing with it going forward. yes. i think that s one of the questions is it s not a one-day story. i think that is the question, is i think what we saw with now i should say newt gingrich s personal history is not a secret. it s not new ref layings. but to make a comparison to earlier in the primary, when herman cain, when the allegations first came forth which were new as far as most people knew, the immediate affect was to rally around him. it was only after the drip, drip, drip of multiple accusers. i wonder whether the rally around effect is short live or something he can keep going? the difference is people already worked through a lot of this. they ve already come up with their rationalizations. he begged forgiveness. some christian conservatives have started making king david analogies. david was also very flawed and did terrible things but was
still a great leader. i heard this from more than one person. really? yes. you deal with this all the time. the idea of not this specific thing. continue. the fact that din grich shou gingrich, his goal should have made this a one-day story and he didn t by any means. he inflamed it. the fact is this is a primary. it would take the other challengers wanting to exploit this. it cannot be that the media, as a set of organizations, media are the ones pressing this. it has to be his opponents would want to exploit it. in the context of the republican primary. they don seem at this moment. theat first. it doesn t have to be his opponents. everybody s releading. party primaries are heavily about the party, political scientists. you know this stuff better than i do. what happened to gingrich the first time around in his first
gingrich is the same way. what s funny about gingrich and what i think in the end undid sarah palin is a weakness that he didn t share, he knows the game he was playing. he went on the program with john king and had a pleasant interview. gingrich s resentments are calculated. he can play the other side of that when it s important. they re calculated but they re also real. he told a fascinating story at one of the stops about how he came to his pro-life con vicks. he was saying he was in a restaurant in atlanta and a woman came up to him and said i disagree with you about abortion because in my mind it s just a malignant tumor. i don t believe this story by the way. he said that was the moment that convinced him? really? it was spite that i have a prediction, too, and that is that two days before the primary, he s calling it despicable that this story is
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