wheat. i mean it s pretty scary when this was the most exciting comment. cane sugar hides behind beat sugar. greg: of course it does, newt. but we knew that. i like boring. by removing the raucous audience you remove a bias that may not be there. it could be as lively as a conference on shoe laces in brussels. so a straightforward question: who can beat obama? prior to last night s debate, they will consider newt to cream obama in a debate. positive answer but to the wrong question. the actual question about electability is scary. it s what shrinks call substitution. i do it when they ask me about the odd odor coming from my basement. it prevents the viewers favoring theatrics to allow you to see what might happen if newt ran against o. was it boring!
weakly for gingrich do you think the interview coming at this time, two days before the south carolina primary will have a difference? andrea: with maybe some women out there won t like it. this is a republican primary. a lot of republican voter rinse formed. they know who gingrich is. they are smart and they know that the woman is not there to set the record straight. she is there to turn the knife. the whole thing stinks. 48 hour away from south carolina. it s pretty transparent. a lot of south carolina voters know who gingrich is and their minds are made up. i don t think it will sway them. it s extremely dirty to not only air this 48 hours away but very dirty for marianne gingrich who said in 1994 if newt ran for office i could destroy him with a single television interview. that is what she is doing. don t buy it. dana: well, i don t know does anyone disagree with that? bob: first, i agree that south carolina has an i amazing history of coming up with this kind of stuff in
$10,000 to pay the rent for at least a year. willard, you re hopelessly out of touch. but the other gop frontrunner isn t any better. newt ran up $500,000 tab at tiffany and bragged about how much he charges per speech. i did no lobbying of any kind, period, for a practical reason i m going to be really direct, okay? i was charging $60,000 a speech. what newt and willard don t seem to get is that millions of americans, democrats and republicans, are hurting. joining me now is bob herbert, senior fellow at demos.org, and alex wagner, host of now with alex wagner. she s responsible for everyone losing weight because no one
does this have the potential of backfighting or can he reboot his campaign doing this? well, reverend, mitt romney changeses personas the way you and i change neckties. i don t have any doubt that he can make this change and make yet another pivot here. and indeed he has to. this is newt-style politics. newt said over the weekend that he was going to be relentlessly positive. that lasted about 24 hours. this is the negative politics that newt invented and romney is going to have to play that game. and i do think that he can threaten a long, protracted battle regardless of whatever the polls are saying because he has a ton of money, a lot more money than newt gingrich has and he s got a lot of core support in the establishment. he can drag this out the same way hillary clinton dragged out the democratic race last time and potentially more successfully. now, talking about the fact that he raised hillary clinton, michael, let s look at a little
do you believe he should give that money back? boy, i sure do. he was at a debate saying that politicians who took money from freddie and fannie should go to jail. he was in the business of connecting folks with government. he was on k street. this was a connection with government kind of business, working for freddie mac, getting paid $1.6 million one of the things i think people recognize in washington is that people go there to serve the people and then they stay there to serve themselves. as expected, newt fired right back i would just say that if governor romney would like to give back all the money he s earned from bankrupting something and laying off employees over his years at bain that i would be glad to then listen to him. and i ll bet you $10, not $10,000 that he won t take the offer. make no mistake, this race is shaping up to be brutal. mitt is fighting for his life. and two new polls shows he should be worried.