newt gingrich top dog in the g.o.p. race and seems to have the tea party backing him. 82% choose him over romney and bachmann ironically enough as the nominee. some say that the gingrich candidacy would doom the party. we re back with our panel, angela mcglowan, what rand paul wrote in the des moines register, we, the tea party must not make a giant leap backward by electing big government status quo republicans like gingrich. does it represent a failure of the tea party. no, if you go back with the contract with america, eliminating the debt tax, capital gains tax cut. $500 per child tax credit. and president clinton signed 70% of that. now, one could argue that, newt gingrich should have gotten the tea party support from the start, but if you look at the people there between romney and newt gingrich, newt gingrich is going to get that tea party
newt he started with programs lunar landing, and he stumbled into the private sector versus washington insider. clayton: i thought what he was trying to do point out the ridiculous gingrich ideas floated or made fun of recently, that the washington insiders have said and i think ej said this week, that there are filing cabinets filed with newt s idea and a filing cabinet filled request newt s bad ideas. going to the moon and retrieving minerals. might be a bad one and mitt romney s attempt to point out the off the radar. clayton: i agree with you, it went a long way to pointing out. alisyn: meanwhile, michele bachmann pointed out their similarities and a new phrase, newt romney, and she sees them as one amahl gam of a politician. if you look at newt romney they were for obama care
party principle and rand paul, you have to take it seriously when he comes out and says something like that about the tea party. that said they seem to be coalescing around him. a bit of a mystery, i think partly because they see him more as this conservative icon who, won back the house after 40 years of democratic rule, he did the contract with america and that s what they remember, and they seem to be, sort of overlooking the other things and maybe it just comes down to the simple fact that he s not romney. and i think that sorry, go ahead. here is the real reason he they like gingrich, the tea party is looking for someone to just stick it to obama, and call him a socialist, and be mean and vicious and gingrich is fantastic at that. remember, here is a guy who wrote the memo, call democrats you guys, it s not about work, it s about policy. and this man has proven that he can pass policy and have it enacted. and i think we could debate this with a few more and the tax mo
thing, made me feel like i was on the moon. did he hurt himself? he didn t hurt himself, but the debate was if newt din grinch could take the heat. dealing with the infidelity and palestinian. and i agree with kirsten, it s annuity gingrich, mitt romney race, in 1980 ronald reagan did not win iowa and bush did, ronald reagan was our nominee. i think it s a long time before we choose who our nominee could be, i still believe it could be mitt romney. dave: i thought that the fidelity thing was a moment that held our breath. waited for the people to take off the gloves and go straight at newts gingrich. when i get back to you, kirsten. should somebody had made an issue with newt s issues with fidelity. it s a little desperate and something that you don t need to raise because people know about it and i think that based on, if you look, i ve been talking to a lot of
perry, the texas governor who is running for the gop nomination. not in the newspaper hard copy, a lot of americans get, but in the online edition. he talked about the president and his birth certificate and he said he believes the president was born in the united states, but a little less confident on that birth certificate. of course, released earlier this year by hawaii after a request from the president. he went on in that interview to say i had dinner with donald trump and he doesn t think it was real. trump was flirting with a bid for the gop nomination and part of that was a push for the president to reveal his birth certificate and questions whether the president was born in hawaii. an interview released by cnbc john harwood, their top political guy. here s what perry said, take a listen. my grades ended up on the front page of the newspaper, if we re going to show stuff, let s show stuff. but, look, that s all a distraction. i get it. i m really not worried about t