big and winning delegates, which is, if you can get through the early states and be standing, is the way you become the nominee. and you re talking romney here, right? yeah. let s take a look last night on fox, on hannity s show. here s gingrich taking a swipe at mitt romney while promoting his own rise in the ranks. let s watch him in action. people say, you know, i think we need newt gingrich because we need somebody who can debate obama, we need somebody who s actually done it before, we need somebody with very substantial, big ideas. and so i think whereas i would have thought originally, it was going to be mitt and not mitt, i think it may turn out to be newt and not newt. and that s a very different formula than frankly i m having to redesign our campaign strategy, because we re at least 60 days ahead of where i thought we d be. wow, there s mitt there s newt gingrich saying how great he is in front of a christmas tree. he s his own christmas present to himself, thi
and if romney loses those three states, it s going to be hard for him, i think, to turn things around anytime soon. well, you say he s still the favorite. is he still the favorite to win two of those first three? where do you see him winning besides new hampshire, mark halperin? it s tough. it s tough to see. look, i still think he can win iowa. gingrich could easily have a decline. he s got different skills than the other republican conservatives we ve seen have รง declines, but he still could have a decline, ron paul could go well enough. rick perry s superpac could go on tv. he could still win in iowa, win in new hampshire and end it. i think that s the most likely outcome. if he doesn t, after new hampshire, it s hard to see where he wins symbolically that s important. he s going to have to grind it out at that point, and they re prepared to do that by spending big and winning delegates, which is, if you can get through the early states and be standing, is the way you become t
newt. but given the dynamics, i still think romney s in the driver s seat. steve mcmahon, you re looking at this across the aisle, steve. i see newt coming up, and i see him coming up, because he will punch the president in the face. he ll be much more aggressive in a debate. he ll be snarky, obnoxious. he ll be offensive, but he will put on a better show if you want a real fighter, a gladiator, than romney, who looks like a gentleman compared to gingrich. steve? yeah, he looks like a ken doll. and you re absolutely right, chris. newt gingrich, you know, he s famous for his hyperbolic rhetoric, bold, radical, transformational change. you can see from the polling data and see this for a long time now, the primary republican electorate isn t warming to mitt romney. he s been at 23, 24, 25 consistently. and now the next alternative to romney, newt gingrich, who s a true conservative, who has won before, who the republicans know and like, i think he won t wear
let s take a look last night on fox, on hannity s show. here s gingrich taking a swipe at mitt romney while promoting his own rise in the ranks. let s watch him in action. people say, you know, i think we need newt gingrich because we need somebody who can debate obama, we need somebody who s actually done it before, we need somebody with very substantial, big ideas. and so i think whereas i would have thought originally, it was going to be mitt and not mitt, i think it may turn out to be newt and not newt. and that s a very different formula than frankly i m having to redesign our campaign strategy, because we re at least 60 days ahead of where i thought we d be. wow, there s mitt there s newt gingrich saying how great he is in front of a christmas tree. he s his own christmas present to himself, this guy. he s the happiest ego maniac i ve ever seen in my life. let s take a look at newt last night. he seems to have taken some personal credit for the fall of