mortgage giant. this was the subject of were 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 sported the t.a.r.p. fund. and the other thing, really, which really annoyed a lot of people, he received a lot of money from freddie mac. in a way, newt, i think you obably 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 lobbyin for the agency. i offered strategic advice. i was in the private sector. and i was doing things in the private sector. congressm paul, this week you said that gingrich should apologize for taking that money. are you satisfied with how he anwered that last night? no, not really. but what can you do in politics. that s the besthe could do with it. but the crowd dn t wcome
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 t that, should you not beatim? well, i think the philosophies are pretty close. but you kno 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 detmined peon, and can rub people the wrong way. i don t think he s sayg that he doesn t do that. i think mitt has a little bit of a more diplomatic tone to his voice. well, who represents more change? who represents change in the way that republican primary voters want? you mean out of the out of those two. well, but start withish- i don t know, you have to go through.
this was the subject of were 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 sported the t.a.r.p. fund. and the other thing, really, which really annoyed a lot of people, he received a lot of money from freddie mac. in a way, newt, i think you obably 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 lobbyin for the agency. i offered strategic advice. i was in the private sector. and i was doing things in the private sector. congressm paul, this week you said that gingrich should apologize for taking that money. are you satisfied with how he anwered that last night? no, not really. but what can you do in politics. that s the besthe could do with it. but the crowd dn t wcome his answer very
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 t that, should you not beatim? well, i think the philosophies are pretty close. but you kno 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 detmined peon, and can rub people the wrong way. i don t think he s sayg that he doesn t do that. i think mitt has a little bit of a more diplomatic tone to his voice. well, who represents more change? who represents change in the way that republican primary voters want? you mean out of the out of those two. well, but start withish- i don t know, you have to go through.
himself or herself with the position that gingrich took last night. b i ll tellyo this, republican primary voters said the same argument was made at re in 79 and 80 both by republicans running against him and democrats, ended up running against reagan, you can t say these things, you can t say these things. well, you know, th other part of that clip is when he went out there and called mitt romney timid. here s mitt romney using sobrietand also newgingrich comes back not only that, i m sorry i confused churchill. but i think what s instructive is the peopleho know newt ngrich best, the people who served with him, do not come down where lindsey graham did this morning. th are quite and in all my years covering republican politi i have never heard republicans who knew the potential nomine well speak this poly of someone. and yes, he accomplish great things as speaker. but they also remember the chaos, the polarization, the