hart situation for himself saying, check it all out, i m clean, put a tail on him. that s what s happening here. he s gotten much further in this race, herman cain has, than he ever expected to. he probably never expected to have this kind of scrutiny into his private life because he figured people would never care. bob, let me play a new sound bite from the interview with ms. white, the new accuser. i think it s safe to say that after this interview, we can assume that that will be the end of it. but, yes, yes, we have a friendship now. never worked together. i can t imagine phoning or texting me for the late 2 1/2 years just because. i don t know what she says is over their friendship or whatever, but newt gingrich, you re writing about, you re saying that something will splash over on him. but let s look at this graph
joining me tonight. you stay with us. we will give you more on the breaking news on the accuser against herman cain and the herman cain reality show. and i ll give you some american reality, a mixture. the gloves are off. the new frontrunner, newt gingrich, attacked willard today. plus, nothing is sacred when it comes to republicans. but death, taxes and hypocrisy on taxes. i can t believe they re saying it with a straight face. and lawmakers come and go. but few transform america the way congressman barney frank has. he announced his retirement today. you re watching politics nation on msnbc. [ sniffs ] i have a cold. [ sniffs ] i took dayquil but my nose is still runny. [ male announcer ] truth is, dayquil doesn t treat that. really? [ male announcer ] alka-seltzer plus fights your worst cold symptoms,
with tiffany s and cruising the greek islands. and you have this anti-washington party rallying behind this ultimate washington insider who s received millions from special interest groups. it just boggles the mind that he could actually come out of this as the nominee. but i m sure nothing would delight president obama more. bob, you have to admit that mr. gingrich has been a different frontrunner than his proceeding flavors of the month. he s come out fighting. look at how he ripped into willard today. watch this. i don t claim to be the perfect candidate, i just claim to be a lot more conservative than mitt romney and a lot more electable than anybody else. i wouldn t lie to the american people. i wouldn t switch my position for political reasons. it s wrong to go around and adopt radically different positions based on your need of any one election. because then people have to ask themselves, what will you tell me next time? i never take polls to figure out where i stand.
bob, the new frontrunner who you wrote about in your column tomorrow has survived allegations like this, though he s probably handled them better. how does this now position him? is it now a romney/newt gingrich race for the republican nomination? well, it certainly seems to be that that seems to be the current flavor. i will say, however, that anytime anybody talks about these latest allegations about marital infidelity on the part of herman cain, it splatters on newt gingrich because dana is absolutely correct. he is handling it very proactively. but everybody else is going to say, hey, wait a minute, what about newt? i have some ambivalence about this. i have not written about that at all as i ve been covering newt thinking there s other stuff to talk about. but if it s out there, we re certainly going to have to talk about that. and arguably, it s the republicans who started all this when they went so hard after bill clinton.
showing that gingrich should have been dead this summer. in june, he was at 6.7% in the polls. went down to 4.9% in july. august, went up to 5.5%. september, up to 6.8%. october, 9.3%. now he s at 23.8%. what happened, bob? i think there s a big hair thing going on here. we have mitt romney, we have newt gingrich, rick perry, michele bachmann, the only one without big hair who has been up there for a little while was herman cain. but with the rest of them, it was hair today and gone tomorrow. but the problem here is that they re running out of alternatives to mitt romney. you ve got this large number of republicans who just don t like the man because they view him as a it s the hated word, a moderate. now, dana, when you look at four not one, not two, but four national polls has newt