threaten to go outside the party and create as much havoc as he can as a third party. or independent candidate. go ahead john because we have a picture here. let me ask me your thoughts about this. is this guy doing what ted kennedy did? he says i m going to write a contract with the voters. is he going to hold the scriptures and say if you don t agree with my stuff, i m the real conservative and you re just a pretender. i like you use the words scripture. i always think of with newt, people say the good newt and the bad newt. i think of old testament newt and new testament newt. the old testament newt is about vengeance and scorn. we saw that in like the first two-thirds of the speech. then there s the new book of newt. the book of revelations. it s kind of the crazy prophetic apocalyptic. well, cocktails at 12 and lunch at 12:30. the people s campaign thing is really important. what has happened is there s now a skirts and skins game. the establishment versus the glass roots.
we will pin him down as undecided. he points out what you pointed out in your column. which is what? wide swings. well, there s good newt, there s bad newt. it s not just good and bad, it s really bad. well, come on. or really strangely all right. here with us now and he s looking very miami. i don t know. msnbc political analyst and former chairman of the republican national committee, michael steele. who has yeah. back this is the one we ve got a new series going. we re doing miami vice two for assisted living. exactly right. i love it. not going to work. that s going to work. that s going to be great. all right. must-read op-eds. the truth in numbers by robert samuelson in the
on the tarmac in phoenix. why does the nasty right feel it s okay to disrespect this president so much? let me finish with the joy, and i mean joy, this newt versus mitt romney fight is giving yours truly. we start with the right turning against newt gingrich. steve mcmahon is a strategist. for years he s been the republican of the house. he was a hero. a real ramrod for them in getting things done now all of a sudden, everyone from ann coulter to elliott abrams, all these big shots in the party, all the way over to the right are saying there s something fundamentally wrong with this guy. what happened to newt that they didn t notice before? good evening, chris. first of all, i don t know whether i d ever call ann coulter dainty, but we ll let that slide. i think there are two newt gingrichs. the good newt and bad newt. the good newt is the visionary,
newt gingrich when he speaks, forget about bad newt. when he s good newt and locked in, newt gingrich speaks to conservatives in a way and i m not comparing him i said something about jon huntsman and ronald reagan that upset rush limbaugh a couple of days ago. i m not comparing newt to ronald reagan or george w. bush, but reagan had this way of making conservatives stand and go, yeah! you people in manhattan don t understand, you people in georgetown don t understand. screw you, right? let me continue. yeah george w. bush, and i promise, and it wasn t just me that said this. when somebody put a w on the back of their car in 2000, you know what that was equivalent of? sticking your finger up at the elites who said he was too stupid to be president and everybody that voted for him hated science. everybody that voted for him
power will and if it works, and remember we can move ten, or 20 or 25 points in two or throw days in south carolina. so it is a 50/50 proposition. neil: i am impressed with the speaker s performance at debate but i never know which newt gingrich shows up. the nice newt, the bad newt, the professorial northwest but the other night he hit it out of the park. guest: remember, he did not start so well in that debate. what he does not need to do, he is very bad as an attack dog in my opinion. neil: unless he is attacking the president. guest: and drawing sharp contrast on big ideas with the president. when he is going after being looking like he is too political. neil: he does not let go of a bone, i thought he dropped the bain thing and, today, he says