not even sure if i voted for reagan or for bush or who i was for back in the 80s. so it s interesting that newt brings up that moment because i think it s a clear ideological contrast. lisa myers. well, i think clearly governor romney needed to blunt gingrich s moment last night and he didn t accomplish that. this is newt gingrich s wheelhouse. verbal combat. no one is better at it. no one enjoys it more. you know, the key for him is not to appear too mean. not to go totally off message. and he didn t neither happened last night. so very successful evening for him. so you know, unfortunately, i think for governor romney, the clip that will be played a lot is him trying to make the $10,000 bet. you don t say. here was the fight with rick perry over the individual mandate in health care. watch. i read your first book, and
an upset winner there? well, he s got the most bumper stickers. he s got the most yard signs. he s got the most enthusiasm. but i don t know that you can translate that into a victory because remember the caucuses are january 3rd. a lot of the college students will be on their christmas break. so he definitely has a following out here. and i could tell you, there are a lot of young people that are really disappointed with obama. he promised to be somebody that would bring america together, and his campaign is just the opposite. tear people apart, attack people. we need a leader that s going to bring people together. ron paul has been a consistent conservative. you got to give him credit. i have concerns about his foreign policy. all right. governor branstad, thank you very much. chuck todd, i won t pull the oochz have much time. but senator lindsey graham, if the election were held tomorrow, sound bite. we don t have much time. but senator lindsey graham, if the election were held
the courage to tell the truth, such as with ronald reagan who went around his entire national security apparatus to call the soviet union an evil empire. you know, the speaker may carrick tell rise that as courage, but it s also a fact that that s a very popular thing to say to all the evangelicals in iowa. so where he says courage, some people see pander. he talks about the palestinians. you go back 100 years. there was no saudi arabia. there was no iraq. there was no jordan. as a historian, i think speaker gingrich needs to be a little more accurate. this is newtonian. newt gingrich is radioactive material. if they get too close, he could kill every republican on the ballot. the voters look at it and go, wow, what great power. mike murphy tweeted toys in your point, put it up on the screen, mitt, meaning romney, missed an opportunity to clobber
it seems like people are rather tolerant. he did that ten years ago, but he doesn t do that now. congressman, you ve been tough up in iowa. you do go after gingrich, flip-flopping, being all over the place on issues, like climate change, when he cut an ad with nancy pelosi. you never specifically go after romney. are you more comfortable with romney as the standard bearer of the party should it come to that, should you not beat him? well, i think their philosophies are pretty close. but you know, i think the answer that was given last night, i think romney comes back a little more diplomatic. i think that he handles himself a little differently than newt. and newt, you know, newt s living up to this. matter of fact, he s addressed the subject. he is a very determined person, and can rub people the wrong way. i don t think he s saying that he doesn t do that. i think mitt has a little bit of a more diplomatic tone to his voice. so who represents more
consistent conservative, the issue of him receiving payments from freddie mac, the mortgage giant. this was the subject of where you took him on last night, and his response. watch. he s been on different positions, you know, on some of the issues. single payer. he s taken some positions that are not conservative. he supported the t.a.r.p. fund. and the other thing, really, which really should have annoyed a lot of people, he received a lot of money from freddie mac. in a way, newt, i think you probably got some of our taxpayers money. they got money and they re still getting bailed out. you re a spokesman for them, and you received money for it. i was never a spokesman for any agency. i never did any lobbying for the agency. i offered strategic advice. i was in the private sector. and i was doing things in the private sector. congressman paul, this week you said that gingrich should apologize for taking that money. are you satisfied with how he answered that last night? no, no