25% during this primary. if he stays steady at where he is right now head to head with the president in the general election, he loses. he could easily win though. do you think so? oh, yes. i think gingrich could win, too. in our system, any time a major party nominates a candidate, they get a mantle of respectability. no matter what their background is. and they are suddenly elevated. and this will be a competitive race. the moirt surrounds them, supports them and resources them. i m not saying they ll beat obama. but the idea that either one of them is unelectable i would reject. can i throw one thing into the blix? first, it will be a competitive race. when you think that all that the president has to do to win is hold the states that he and john kerry both won and pick up florida where he leads both romney and gingrich. and you throw in that they ve taken positions that are so far outside the main stream. the classic example was earl on in the debates when they were
some of the other conservative candidates to take away enough of gingrich s lead that someone like ron paul could finish in first, rather than gingrich. we were looking at that magnificent christmas card. what is the problem here? why won t conservatives flock to a man who has been monogamous for 43 years, who served one company for 25 years, against a man who has not only had multiple affairs and multiple marriages burk has been highly inconsistent on the issues as well. well, a lot of them don t believe in family values as much as they claim they do. you have a party that has a lot of people who maybe behave a little differently than they would tell a pollster or tell their neighbors. so it is be so crazy that they re, it is be so crazy that they re going to respond to a candidate who has gone through confession. he is a catholic. these folks believe in redemption even if they re not catholics.
fighters whose energy had waned as mr. gingrich said just this week. y stepped down? sure. i had run out of the ability to convince my members to be reformers. they were burned out. they were exhausted. we had had four straight years of doing everything and they were too tired. and i was not willing to stay and be a politician. they were both in the house of representatives and i am happy to say that he is here. good afternoon. hi. how are you? newt gingrich said as you just heard him that he left congress because he wouldn t be a quote normal politician. is that how you describe the situation? no, no. but that s newt. he is always blaming others. blaming his caucus for his leaving. the caucus was going to throw him out so he resigned. so you re suggesting that this historian, professor of history, isn t so smart when it come to history. not so accurate. , no not at all. and i served with newt when i was in the house for 12 years and then went to the senate for
real chance in iowa of upsetting the entire field. he has the money. he has the organization. he has the supporters. even mitt romney said that every time he steps foot in iowa, the only thing he sees is people with ron paul signs. that s meaningful where word of mouth and key influence and networks really mean something, when you have a county by county organization. that is something herman cain failed to do. something newt gingrich failed to do. something that mitt romney has failed to do. it seems to me that ron paul has the best and strongest organization and i wouldn t be a bit surprised if he came away with winning iowa and upset the entire field. it would put the republicans back on their heels and have them reorganizing for new hampshire, florida, and south carolina. and some of the other early states. i do think that ron paul has a real shot at iowa. absolutely. a question to both of you. you know there s a debate ahead tomorrow. professor dyson first. what do you expect? d
gingrich described it as socialism. professor gingrich explained president obama is indeed a socialist. without tackling the multiple distorsions necessary, he offered a single measure of obama s socialist. i think he represents a strain of left wing big government. government is smart, you re stupid, government should decide everything, you re not capable of it. if you re asking the question, does he think the overwhelming dominance should be government? and does he think government is smarter than the rest of us, the answer is yes? this from a man named newt. where do to begin. the sneering we know better than you of the bush/cheney administration tends to leap to mind. president bush s achievement, his war in iraq, which was described by andrew card as akin to rolling out a new product,