the language of the ghetto remark made it into that ad. according to a count by the new york times, gingrich mentioned ronald reagan s name 55 times in the past 18 debates. in another romney super pac ad, questions the entire reagan story. from debate, would you think that newt gingrich was ronald reagan s vice president. i worked with president ronald reagan. ronald reagan. ronald reagan. president reagan. but in his diaries, reagan mentioned gingrich only once. reagan criticized gingrich saying newt s ideas would cripple our defense programs. on leadership and character, gingrich is no ronald reagan. last night, gingrich returned fire on the attack. governor romney was against ronald reagan. governor romney 1994 senate race he was opposed to going back to the reagan/bush policies. governor romney was giving money to democrats to suggest that governor romney is more reagan-like than i am is an act of total fantasy. the candidates were doing their best to play to the
sometimes it s misleading. i think this is a year that the president is trying to show that she s serious about wanting to do something on comprehensive immigration reform. i think jan brewer has made her bed in terms of where she is. i think this is a situation as well where the president has been essentially a calm force through some very tough times and i think in that picture he looks like the calm guy trying to be reasonable. you know, susan, bringing up immigration here a minute, arizona is the might be the next big primary fight. it s a month away. and i ve been intrigued listening to the conversation romney and gingrich is trying to have with hispanics in florida yesterday and wondering, boy, they re not going to have that soft rhetoric actually could play poorly among arizona republicans. there are not a lot of hispanic arizona republicans. there are in florida. you can t make these kind of pivots and keep your currentibility. they have both taken pretty strong anti-immi
candidates is to tear down the other, not look ahead to what happens november and the case that they lose. they don t care about that as much. i m actually not as worried about that i think that either the public is going to find the swiss bank account attack important and convincing or it s not. either romney is going to have the nominee, a good response to that or not and the fact that gingrich happened to make the same claim in the spring the democrats are going to make in the fall is a smaller factor. susan page, another part of this campaign i think is history making is that newt gingrich essentially has one backer, it is the adelson household in las vegas. the first time, gingrich was asked about this and about these donation, super pac and what is sheldon adelson s motivations behind it. here is what newt said. have you promised him i promise had that would seek to defend the united states and the united states allies and
think m.a.s.h. was as good without a laugh track. i don t think newt is as good without the audience. he needs the south carolina people screaming. the point that you ve been making for a while, i thought romney was as i said before, i thought they were both exhausted. i thought that romney, in the past debates has been good at dropping opposition research into his attacks on opponents, i thought it felt a little like an opo-dump on newt. fine, he went on the attack. in the end something you said for a couple of days i think is the problem for romney, he still needs to offer a positive vision, that conservative voters will like. not just attacking gingrich. which he has to do. but he also has to give conservatives a reason to vote for him. because the south carolina result, as again as you pointed out, joe, was as much a rejection of romney as anything else. how does he turn that around? how does he come up with a message that conservatives will john, when you write your book, i
they look to somebody who can spank barack obama. he can deliver on that score. i don t think newt is anymore conservative than mitt romney, actually. maybe less conservative. but he understands conservatives y raj erogonous zones. if you watch him speak, he is touching you in the right places. i am a little uncomfortable. you should be. he hits the right buttons, but he also hits them in an articulate manner and it is a sink manner. it just goes like oh i wish i had said that. that s what happened. can i play you another one? this is newt explaining why kids should be janitors and you agree with him. lets play this. you can take one janitor and hire 30 some kids to work in the school for the price of one janitor, and those 30 kids would be a lot less likely to drop out. they would actually have money in their pocket.