telling the huffington post, he didn t want the money to go toward this line of attack. where did he think it was going to go? it was clear that s where he was headed. billionaires don t get to be billionaires by throwing good money after bad. and he may have decided, you know, this dog won t hunt and he s going to kind of back away. without that flow of money, what does newt gingrich have? really even with that flow of money, what does newt gingrich have? beyond a chance to get revenge against mitt romney for destroying newt s campaign in iowa. you know who david has on meet the press this sunday? newt. no way! do you have newt? you talk about the guy at the center of the storm, david gregory. newt gingrich, most people believe that he has burned his bridge to mainstream republicanism. i mean, just about every republican other than sarah
i like ron paul, i m a liberal-tarian, not a libertarian, but with his momentum i can t imagine the republicans giving him a nomination when he s out of sync with mainstream republicans even with the debt ceiling, most economists and mainstream republicans acknowledged we need to raise the debt ceiling and ron paul doesn t want to do that, consistent with his message we need to cut and have less government which i respect and understand, but, i can t imagine that he has enough momentum to overcome what is considered mainstream republicanism in the year 2011-2012, i can t see that happening. alisyn: mary katherine, talk about his fund-raising, he has been raising money in iowa and the latest campaign is called, cleverly, ready, ames, fire and he raised a respectable $5 million in the last quarter, does it make him less fringe? he s certainly raising a lot of money and when you are organizing, as the new york times reported he s getting buses and he can bus people into
liberal-tarian, not a libertarian, but with his momentum i can t imagine the republicans giving him a nomination when he s out of sync with mainstream republicans even with the debt ceiling, most economists and mainstream republicans acknowledged we need to raise the debt ceiling and ron paul doesn t want to do that, consistent with his message we need to cut and have less government which i respect and understand, but, i can t imagine that he has enough momentum to overcome what is considered mainstream republicanism in the year 2011-2012, i can t see that happening. alisyn: mary katherine, talk about his fund-raising, he has been raising money in iowa and the latest campaign is called, cleverly, ready, ames, fire and he raised a respectable $5 million in the last quarter, does it make him less fringe? he s certainly raising a lot of money and when you are organizing, as the new york times reported he s getting buses and he can bus people into the straw poll and they are offering
let me finish tonight with what i see happening to one of this country s historic political parties. the republican party has given us great moderate leaders in the past. abraham lincoln, teddy roosevelt, dwight eisenhower and flawed leaders who were great americans. i think of grant who won the civil war and was a true believer in reconstruction after the war. i don t know where the tradition i just described broke off and this new thing took over. i think it was passage of the civil rights bill in 64 when they flipped from jefferson to the party of strom thurmond. we have a different republican party than the one that fought slavery. i listen to palin and gingrich and i listen to pawlenty and now trump trying to talk their language. we re talking something very different than mainstream
let me finish tonight with what i see happening to one of this country s historic political parties. the republican party has given us great moderate leaders in the past. abraham lincoln, teddy roosevelt, dwight eisenhower and flawed leaders who were great americans. i think of grant who won the civil war and was a true believer in reconstruction after the war. i don t know where the tradition i just described broke off and this new thing took over. i think it was passage of the civil rights bill in 64 when they flipped from jefferson to the party of strom thurmond. we have a different republican party than the one that fought slavery. i listen to palin and gingrich and i listen to pawlenty and now trump trying to talk their language. we re talking something very different than mainstream republicanism. the kind that long run in