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At this juncture. at the same time it is going to be an interesting race. you know, martin, you make a very good point about the competition n competition. three out of the four opening states in this long marathon are favoring newt now. iowa, the south carolina, and florida. and only new hampshire which in the past romney has been expected to win. and still giving a narrow lead, his lead has narrowed somewhat. and if he doesn t come out with a big win now in new hampshire, a lot of folks are going to say that that s a virtual victory for gingrich, too. he s in trouble now. got to dig himself out. karen, gingrich really does know how to make very personal attacks. you witnessed them personally yourself. he issued that statement about romney where not issued a statement but talking in the debate and he said that the only ....
Pelosi. you know, i have personally asked newt about that a few days ago p and he says that s the dumbest thing he ever did. johnson, he did it. he did it, though. he did and it goes oops, i made a mistake. i don t hold politicians to the perfection standard. people can and do make mistakes. and as long as they learn from those mistakes and move forward, i can accept that. how about then the hypocrisy standard of suggesting that barney frank should be sent to jail and at the same time as he does so, he knows full well he personally banked $1.6 million from freddie mac for his historical services? he was a consultant. that s what he said he did. he offered them advice. i m asking you about hypocrisy. don t make bad loans! that s so obvious. the question would be why did freddie mac and fannie mae even have to go ask him that? what about gingrich s serial ....
Money to fund tax breaks for wealthiest americans. so on the one hand you have newt gingrich who is the tea party before the tea party was cool so to speak and mitt romney who, you know, did spend his career firing people and laying off people, sending jobs overseas to enrich himself and his partners. gingrich clearly regards himself as a combination of, i guess, isaac newton and albert einstein. given his debating skills, though, be honest with me, would it not be would he not be a more formidable opponent than mitt romney to the president? well, look, i think i think that you have seen in i think have you seen in mitt romney and newt gingrich people who are very adept at this. i mean, mitt romney is running for president for the second time. he had the debate ted kennedy when he ran, you know, ran for the senate, you know, many, many years ago when he started his political career. and newt gingrich has been through the battles. i think they are both have shown themselve ....
Of the other candidates, i invariably get an e-mail from a ron paul supporter complain being the fact i m not writing about ron paul and all the support he has. if ron paul takes iowa, that could that could spell trouble for gingrich because he will have been king of the hill for so long. but also for mitt romney, who desperately needs to win in new hampshire, if he is going to go if he will go any further in the contest, so ron paul coming in first or second could upend the race as we know it. how significant is iowa in the election cycle? mike huckabee took iowa the last time around and ended up on fox news. right. gingrich has solid support as we are looking at polls of all the early states. gingrich has very strong support, sort of across the board. i actually think iowa is quite critical this year if gingrich wins, that s a lot of momentum. i can see him even winning in new hampshire and going on and ....
That can be nasty with the president and can go toe to toe with him on a debate stage and not be embarrassed. i think they found their guy in newt gingrich. do you think that this is about a confrontational character as opposed to a considerate one? sure. look at all the people that were number one above mitt romney. newt gingrich, michele bachmann, donald trump even though he didn t get into the race. these were all people who took it right to the president with very bold, blunt red meat language that thrills the base. think about whether rick perry was riding high in polls, saying things like we need to ben bernanke wouldn t be treated very well down in texas and his most aggressive language was when he was doing the best in the polls. indeed. that s the secret of this republican race. thanks so much for joining us thanks, martin. coming up, how the tea party came to accept the ultimate washington insider. ....