which newt ginrich won handedly after an amazing week in which he was down 25 points to mitt romney ends up winning by i guess 14 points. 12, 14 points. dave wiegel, what do you see respond to the great point made not like ginrich s victory was because he laid out this vision of, you know, detailed social policies people really like. it was about these atmospherics. respond to that. i want to you talk about i follow some conservatives on twitter and every one was out last night. talking about collective suicide, marching off of a cliff. sort of i mean, and this was across the board. looking on. i m curious what you think about what the next move for the republican conservative establishment is. well, the first question, i would quibble with the idea ginrich didn t have a vision. he had a vision that lines up very closely with what the conservative base, tea party is,
to say this is crazy. we cannot nominate this guy. completely unelectable. highest unfavorables of anyone we have. that didn t work. it worked because it took him down in iowa and back again. when ginrich went after bain capital you saw another concerted effort by the conservative establishment and say no, this is not what we do on the republican side. free enterprise. we are for creative destruction. that didn t work. so what are what is the what s the next move of the both conservative intellectual establishment and the money players to make sure that the disaster of grich being nominated does not actually happen? there s actually a lot of wait and see part of the plan here. there s real confidence that grich whenever when ginrich gets in a moment he blows it. republican strategists watching this are kind of telling each other not to freak out. this is a south carolina primary. usually this is odd. it is more typical south carolina proves the establishment choice.
himself said, he is the gin side the frame on the frames you buy at the store. we have the exit polls from nbc news. i thought this was interesting in terms of by income. under the this is the breakdown of south carolina by income. 73% make under $100,000. only one that mitt romney one were the people that make $200,000 or more. he was winning i think mitt romney and we are going to talk about it more lay other the show. to what you are saying, dave, about the this issue that he has and ginrich s alternative, romney seems to have thought at one point he can win, he can score points in the kind of conservative tribalist mode by being mr. 1% and forgot, i think, that s not actually appealing to actual republican voters despite the ideology. can i make a slightly different but i think recommend point. mitt romney played defense the
press corps on this race was about 72 hours, 36 hours. which was fair because the attention span of the electorate is short, too. you definitely talk to voters in the final stretch of this who asked a blind question about why they are switching to ginrich, the first thing they mention was than bain. it was he really put juan williams in his place. that that actual i heard it quite a few times. put in his place by ginrich. no. the elitism of mitt romney as they saw it came up, too. there are a lot of voters, talked to a lot of blue collar voters. people that had been laid off. one couple in munce corner, made $100,000 and makes $24,000 now, couldn t relate on to mitt romney. they weren t mentioning points there that bain documentary. i don t think they had seen it. they got the sense that mitt romney didn t understand their pain. the way that newt ginrich did. you laugh at that but that s of a piece of what you have been talking about so far, in every
same dexterity other candidates can. what we can do is appeal to the kind of cult of success, the rhetoric of i m successful and i m a business man and that s going to play well and republicans. usually it does. here he is talking and what happened is with the bain attacks, there was a taboo broken, i think, by ginrich and santorum that all of a sudden he had to look around and attacked by the things they thought was his strength in the republican field and here is him bitterly denouncing that last night in his speech. we cannot defeat that president with a candidate that joined in that very assault on free enterprise. when my opponents attack success and free enterprise, they are not only attacking me, they are attacking every person who dreams of a better future. those who pick up the weapons of the left today will find them turned against us tomorrow. that s the choice our party