try to be nice to people i don t like. now, some of you may not think i ve been good at it. but i ve been trying. congressman frank has been a frequent guest on our show and he never fails to both enlighten and entertain us. trying to have a conversation with you is like talking to a dining room table. give me those 12 people s names and i will go talk uncharacteristically nicely to them. thanks for the memories she is apparently going to be the republican nomination by default. i guess it s by default default of newt gingrich and it s default of herman cain and everybody else s fault. never has the willingness of the minority to abuse the process
gingrich beating mitt romney. 26 hearse to 22%. 24%, 22%. across the board, he is winning against mitt romney in four national polls. this is an amazing occurrence for someone that was written off by all of the wise political observers just a couple of months ago. it sure is. we ve seen something like this with john mccain. but this isn t john mccain. when i look at newt gingrich leading in the polls, it tells me that the republican primary process has become some sort of a mass suicide movement. it is just so hard to imagine the republicans giving this gift to a very vulnerable president obama, as you were discussing with bob. we ve got the family values party getting involved with this guy who s on his third marriage. you have the cut the budget party dealing with this guy who s got all these problems
text messages of some kind that prove him wrong, he s in trouble. he should have gotten out in front of the story before, if he knew this was coming. gingrich has affairs in his past but we knew about them. people don t seem to care about gingrich s past as much. but cain these accusations are new. if we see some evidence, he s in trouble. perry, mr. cain s attorney just released this statement. let me show you to it you. he says, this is not an accusation of harassment in the workplace. this is not an accusation of an assault, which are subject matters of legitimate inquiry to a political candidate. rather, this appears to be an accusation of private, alleged consensual conduct between adults, a subject matter which is not a proper subject of inquiry by the media or the public. no individual, whether a private citizen, a candidate for public office or a public official, should be questioned about his
mitt romney the flip-flopping label. now, dana, how important is the fact that the union leader, a major newspaper, if not the major newspaper in new hampshire, came out today in support of newt gingrich? right, it is a big surprise, reverend, in part because romney so far had in new hampshire. but, of course, this paper went against romney the last time around. it has the potential to shake up the race. i think we in the newspaper business think we re a little bit more important than we actually are. but even if gingrich can perform very solidly out there in iowa and get close to if not actually defeat romney in new hampshire, he s going to be in a very solid position getting to south carolina. but, again, i have to believe that the republicans are going to come to their senses and not let that happen. well, dana, i think you re right. but, bob, i think that you know, as one who went on the education tour with newt
i never take polls to figure out where i stand, i ll never lie to the american people. this is today on a radio station in south carolina. those are pretty, pretty harsh terms and references to the former frontrunner, wouldn t you say, bob? well, i would, in addition to which it s a bit ludicrous coming from newt gingrich who s been accused of being somebody who has a position of the minute kind of way of looking at things. the one example i remember so vividly was what he was first advocating that the united states should take action of a certain sort in libya. then the united states took that action and he immediately criticized it. and he criticized president obama for that. i think he may have some problems when he tries to pin on