nomination, by the time we get into the jeep election, he is going to be tough.ed up by having to go toe-to-toe with gingrich, whereas if they had just left everything alone, romney might well have been able to just kind of skate through and then obama could just kind of sheer the skin off, we have been better prepared at that point. newt offered a new defense of why he was not a lobbyist. i, of course, insisted for practical purposes he was. i know you made the case that technically he wasn t, but newt s defense he absolutely wasn t a lobbyist was basically i didn t need the money because i was making 60 grand a speech everywhere i went. and so he would have left open the idea i would have been a lobbyist if i needed the money. how does that sound in south carolina? i wrote about that today a great question. i wrote about that today and i said two things, one there are event planners all over the country being pilloried by their bosses because they paid
going to be tough.ed up by having to go toe-to-toe with gingrich, whereas if they had just left everything alone, romney might well have been able to just kind of skate through and then obama could just kind of sheer the skin off, we have been better prepared at that point. newt offered a new defense of why he was not a lobbyist. i, of course, insisted for practical purposes he was. i know you made the case that technically he wasn t, but newt s defense he absolutely wasn t a lobbyist was basically i didn t need the money because i was making 60 grand a speech everywhere i went. and so he would have left open the idea i would have been a lobbyist if i needed the money. how does that sound in south carolina? i wrote about that today a great question. i wrote about that today and i said two things, one there are event planners all over the country being pilloried by their bosses because they paid $100,000 and didn t know they could get him for 60. that is the first thing.