more with our political panel in a moment, but first, a brief guide to newt gingrich s marital history. gingrich left his first wife, jackie, for marianne. left his second wife, marianne, for his third wife, callista, now his second wife is telling it all, saying gingrich asked her to consider either an open marriage or a divorce at the same time he was giving speeches about family values and attacking president clinton about his indiscretions. i said to him, newt, we ve been married a long time, and he said, yes, but you want me all to yourself. callista doesn t care what i do. what was he saying to you, do you think?
toward newt will think him more grandiose than grand after tonight, especially given the humility and the courage that santorum showed. and also, santorum basically called him crazy. not quite in so many words, he called newt gingrich crazy. and mitt romney did behave i thought mitt romney behaved in a gentlemanly way for the most part. he got a little irritated when he thought his character was being impugned. but, you know, romney was at his best in the sense that he was the classy guy who could unflappable. unflappable classy character. let s go to romney. i think we can all agree that gingrich dominated what would be the emotional impact part of the debate. romney doesn t exactly speak from the gut. he, as we know, does kind of memorized rusati memorized recitations on things. one of the thing he s running into trouble on in south carolina is bain.
don t do what you re supposed to do on tuesday for mitt romney, i will be back, jersey-style, people. i will be back. all right, so in december governor chris christie went all schwarzenegger on the crowd in iowa, but now he s brushing off romney s defeat as no big deal. this guy is all bark and no bite. for chris christie to say romney losing iowa doesn t matter after his bully routine in iowa, that s jersey-style psycho talk. what brings us here today, that s creating jobs and boosting tourism. up next, richard wolffe, joy-ann reid, and krystal ball on today s good news for the president. and the interview newt gingrich called tawdry. he said, yes, but you want me all to yourself. callista doesn t care what i do. and the pizza man is not finished. south carolina, send steven colbert a message. on january 21st, vote herman
more with our politicalpa l politicalpanelin a moment, but first, a brief guide to newt gingrich s marital history. gingrich left his first wife, jackie, for marianne. left his second wife, marianne, for his third wife, callista, now his second wife is telling it all, saying gingrich asked her to consider either an open marriage or a divorce at the same time he was giving speeching about family values and attacking president clinton about his indiscretions. i said to him, newt, we ve been married a long time, and he said, yes, but you want me all to yourself. callista doesn t care what i do. what was he saying to you, do you think? he was asking to have an open
callista doesn t care what i do. what was he saying to you, do you think? he was asking to have an open marriage, and i refused. he wanted an open marriage? yeah, that i accept the fact that he has somebody else in his life. and you said? no, no. yeah, that i accept the fact that he has somebody else in his life. and you said? no, no. that is not a marriage. not only is that interview going to air in its entirety later tonight, but abc saw fit to release that specific part of it where he says that he wanted an open marriage. they saw fit to release that specific part of it before the last republican debate in south carolina before south carolina votes, a debate that, you should know, is partly sponsored by the national organization for marriage. tonight s debate was put on by cnn in the southern republican leadership conference. so put your hands together for the politics gods, ladies and gentlemen, they have outdone