here. everybody has welcomed us so warmly. we appreciate it. a thought of enthusiasm in the state of south carolina tonight, and we begin with raw paul tblgs. down to the bire. the primary, first in the south is tomorrow. newt gingrich is siurging. mitt romney is admitting that tomorrow end in defeat for him. speaker gingrich has come back, had a strong performance in a debate monday night and a strong performence last night. your ex-wife gave an interview with abc news. in it, she said you came to her in 1999, at a time where you were having an affair, she said you asked her, sir, to enter into an open marriage. would you like to take time to respond to that. no, but i will. i think the destructive, vicious, negative nature of much of the news media makes it harder to govern this country, harder to attract decent people to run for public office, and i m appalled that you would begin tapresidential debate on a tuppic like that. is that all you want to say, sir? let me
had a strong performance in a debate monday night and a strong performence last night. your ex-wife gave an interview with abc news. in it, she said you came to her in 1999, at a time where you were having an affair, she said you asked her, sir, to enter into an open marriage. would you like to take time to respond to that. no, but i will. i think the destructive, vicious, negative nature of much of the news media makes it harder to govern this country, harder to attract decent people to run for public office, and i m appalled that you would begin tapresidential debate on a tuppic like that. is that all you want to say, sir? let me finish. please. every person in here knows personal pain. every person in here has had someone close to them go through painful things. to take an ex-wife and make it two days before the primary, a significant question in a presidential campaign is as close to despicable as anything i can imagine. last night, our david gergen called t
mitt romney is admitting that tomorrow end in defeat for him. speaker gingrich has come back, had a strong performance in a debate monday night and a strong performence last night. your ex-wife gave an interview with abc news. in it, she said you came to her in 1999, at a time where you were having an affair, she said you asked her, sir, to enter into an open marriage. would you like to take time to respond to that. no, but i will. i think the destructive, vicious, negative nature of much of the news media makes it harder to govern this country, harder to attract decent people to run for public office, and i m appalled that you would begin tapresidential debate on a tuppic like that. is that all you want to say, sir? let me finish. please. every person in here knows personal pain. every person in here has had someone close to them go through painful things. to take an ex-wife and make it two days before the primary, a significant question in a presidential campaig
personal works. if newt gingrich undoes him, is undone, he s going to have done it to himself in some form. in realtime. in realtime. and i think the romney strategy is hoping you throw all of this stuff at the wall, you hope at some point he cracks. you know, gingrich every once in a while, in his past, when you ve gotten under his skin, he cracks, you know? he gets upset about air force one, and that s really the strategy okay gets personal. get him upset and let him show his tantrums. right. but it s so familiar, these attacks. i mean, i thought i knew that was coming, you know? it almost becomes a joke, it shows your pathetic nature. and i just wonder whether they re going after him about his marriages, which are pretty well know, his conversion to another religion is pretty well known. to hit him on those personal chops after they ve happened in the past, i wonder if that upset romsny i mean, upsets newt. i don t think it does. i think he goes, go ahead, make
his marriages, which are pretty well know, his conversion to another religion is pretty well known. to hit him on those personal chops after they ve happened in the past, i wonder if that upset romsny i mean, upsets newt. i don t think it does. i think he goes, go ahead, make my day. but these are just peep pie a mosaic that romney and his allies are trying to lay down. and newt is too unstable, too undisciplined, too unpopular, he cares too much of history. so i don t think that the bit about his marriages or about his religion will be central to any kind of sustained attack. i do think the broader attack will be, we ve got a great opportunity to beat barack obama and gingrich is just too flawed a man, too flawed a messenger to be the person for that job. that s the case mitt romney s going to make and we ll find out over the next month whether people find it convincing. i m convinced that the one way not convinced, right now