from 1776. take a listen. general washington and his troops had been defeated in september. driven from brooklyn to manhattan, from manhattan to north of new york city. around the palisades, across new jersey. they declined from 30,000 troops in september to 2500 effectives on christmas day. of the 2500, 1/3 historian, i should say. and so he s giving us all a history lesson but, you know, he doesn t suffer from lack of self-esteem. i mean, basically what pundits are saying is he s likening his campaign to george washington s impact on the country. some parallels. you can see some parallels as you saw parallels of being taken off the virginia ballot or not making the virginia ballot with pearl harbor attack and so this is i mean, you know, this is sort of vintage newt in terms of
message, what he wants to tell the american people. why he wants to be president. then he seems to go back into his professor-type mode and starts talking to us in professor-speak about journals and what he would do. this campaign is not about judges, this campaign is about jobs. creating jobs in america. getting the economy going again, and the judges aren t going to have anything to do with that. once you become president if you want to deal with judges, deal with it. but don t go off the page where everybody can attack you. find a consistent message and sell it. alisyn: isn t that vintage newt? he is an outside the box thinker? do you think he has the discipline for the single minded the focus you are talking about? if he wants to win the nomination he has to find that discipline and use it to wrestle
moments are nia-malika henderson of the washington post who covers politics for the post. also here is david milbank, a political columnist for the same organ. our top five. number five moments. in 1995 susan smith was convicted of murdering her two little boys by buckling them into her car and driving the car into the lake. a horrible story. newt gingrich s reaction at the time. i think that the mother killing the two children in south carolina vividly reminds every american how sick this society is getting and how much we need to change things. the only way you get change is to vote republican. there you have the most well, you say what you think, objectively. a man who blames one of the country s two largest political parties, the democrats, on a killing by a mother in a horrible case of her two children. nia? yeah, this obviously was vintage newt, in 1994, he
the post. also here is david milbank, a political columnist for the same organ. our top five. number five moments. in 1995 susan smith was convicted of murdering her two little boys by buckling them into her car and driving the car into the lake. a horrible story. newt gingrich s reaction at the time. i think that the mother killing the two children in south carolina vividly reminds every american how sick this society is getting and how much we need to change things. the only way you get change is to vote republican. there you have the most well, you say what you think, objectively. a man who blames one of the country s two largest political parties, the democrats, on a killing by a mother in a horrible case of her two children. nia? yeah, this obviously was vintage newt, in 1994, he routinely threw rhetorical bombs like this and was such a divisive figure in american politics. i think he s arguing now that he has changed, that he s gone through some saul to paul
but the big reason newt gingrich is the republican front-runner right now, he s a bomb thrower. he s willing to call president obama kenyan anti-colonialist. he s explained his marital infidelity by saying it was so patriotic. he ll say the zaniest thing because the angriest republicans love to hear them. we ve collected newt s five worst stink bombs, if you will, and bring them tonight to you for memory s sake. and watch what happens went mitt romney meets a gay vietnam veteran. i want to know how you feel, that you do not believe that everyone is entitled to their constitutional rights. no, actually, i think i think your i think the time the constitution was written, it was pretty clear that marriage is between a man and a woman and i don t believe the supreme court has changed that. what is he, antonin scalia, original intent? that veteran is with us tonight and he says that exchange has