connects with the reagan democrat, the tough guy working on the factory line somewhere. well, that forgets the fact that newt gingrich has absolutely no discipline. he s intemperate. and he is going this past week he does. but that s just a week. we have weeks and weeks to go and he s going to lose it in these primaries, chris. let me ask you that key question. the one i m watching, peter, and you re reporting this story well. here s the key question. we ve all watched newt in his crazier times. men want to go off and kill giraffes, an absolutely crazy, loony tunes comment, which can only expressed by him, because it means nothing. does he recognize that he has a very good chance to win the nomination, and therefore a very good chance to be the alternative to president obama in tough economic times, and therefore a good chance to be the next president not to blow it. does his temperament allow for that? a very good question. i think, probably not. i know that he recognizes
level, you meet bloggers way down not subbasements, they talk like this. this is the kind of comments you get on a column when you write it, right, in the comment list? number three, i really believe i really, really love my country. this past spring, newt told the christian broadcasting network that his passion for america is what led him to cheat on his wife. let s listen to newt. there s no question that at times in my life, partially driven by how passionate i felt about this country, that i worked far too hard, and that things happened in my life that were not appropriate. and what i can tell you is that when i did things that were wrong, i wasn t trapped in situation ethics. i was doing things that were wrong. i was doing them. i found that i felt compelled to seek god s forgiveness. partially driven by how passionately i felt about my country, nia. this is a cover for infidelity.
this is the patriotism excuse for adultery. it s essentially, i loved my country so much, i had to share it with a woman who s not my wife. that s essentially what his argument is around that. i think one of the things why this in some ways works for him. again, it s that conversion narrative that he s floating there, that very much resonates with christians. this whole idea of redemption, of, you know, once being a center, and now being foregiven. so i think in some ways it works for him. folks out in iowa, folks in south carolina who are in the christian tradition, good catholics who are used to confessions, a good catholic like you, chris, understands this sort of language. i don t understand blaming it on patriotism. but you understand the confession. i think it s bs. it s bs. this is one that newt had to say about the president. by the way, anybody who defends this has a problem with this country. here s what he said with the national review last year. not a million year
for the guy headed for the goalpost to fumble. because of the time, they don t fumble. thank you, cynthia tucker, being hopeful for the christmas period. and peter boyer being a good record. how the photographer got him to pose in that arrogant way, maybe that s part of the thing we re looking for here. look at this guy! arms akimbo, that s called. we ve got newt s five biggest stink bombs, his wildest, most incendiary statements. you should remember these for friday nights when you re sitting next to somebody perhaps at a saloon and you want to remind them about who this guy really is. you re watching hardball, only on msnbc. switchgrass in argentina, change engineering in dubai, aluminum production in south africa, and the aerospace industry in the u.s.? at t. rowe price, we understand the connections of a complex, global economy. it s just one reason over 75% of our mutual funds beat their 10-year lipper average. t. rowe price. invest with confidence.
hardball s top gingrich moments or bottom gingrich moments are nia-malika henderson who covers politics for the post. also here is david milbank, a political columnist for the same or began. in 1995, susan myth 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