these polls, really the best option for the gop here? >> this is the whole question that will be decided in these early states. if this happened on the democratic side against george bush. a lot of democrats want the howard dean the guy i worked for but thought kerry was better guy to beat bush. they went with kerry. decide to go with their head, not their heart and george bush was reelected. that same fight is why all these other candidates popped up against romney. jenna: how does newt gingrich meet the same fate as howard dean? if you look him the most conservative and howard dean the most liberal how does he not meet that fate? >> this is exactly what we went through. we popped up a month before the caucuss. all the democrats and party establishment came at us everything. whatever was in our closet and came out and we gaffed and other things and they crushed us. that is really happened. if newt can live through it,