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Two great minds, good and bad, whatever you want to call them, it worked. i tried to get him to talk about it. he said, santorum doesnt get a piece of that. hes only my junior partner. >> he didnt quite say that. he said santorum wasnt important in passing health care reform. its true. he was a freshman senator and newt gingrich was the speaker of the house. i dont think anyone would say that just the fact that santorum was in the senate makes him senior to gingrich. its a fair comment, also a l...

You have to check him, dont you? >> i was speaker -- >> how are you going to be the alternative to romney unless you check him out of the fight? >> i think it will happen by attrition. i think people are going to look and make a judgment over the next few months. maybe i wont be the judgment. my hunch is i will be. we have a national campaign, were organized to compete in a lot more places. i wasnt trying to knock rick, hes a good guy. i was the speaker of the house. >> i know. >> he was a senat...

>> and if you throw in perry, theyre ahead. more of the interview with gingrich. here he is, lets listen to his somewhat optimistic view of things. lets listen to newt. jimmy carters another one where he ran against four liberals back in 1976 and won the nomination, but was never really the hero of the party. same thing. and romney, look, hes running against a number of conservatives, yourself, santorum, rick perry, different kind of conservatives. hes splitting the conservative vote. 75% of you...

>> but he had the final twist on that. he said he was a social studies teacher at a jesuit high school. >> by the way, i dont have -- in college they like to argue. let me ask you about this whole question. i went out to the gingrich event last night before i got the interview with him late last night. you cant pick your audience. the first person up wanted to talk about m.i.a./p.o.w.s, and the woman said, dont give me that, im going to look it up and look into it. the next person said, everybod...

Alternative to romney unless you check him out of the fight? >> i think it will happen by attrition. i think people are going to look and make a judgment over the next few months. maybe i wont be the judgment. my hunch is i will be. we have a national campaign, were organized to compete in a lot more places. i wasnt trying to knock rick, hes a good guy. i was the speaker of the house. >> i know. >> he was a senator who wasnt in leadership at that point. he did very significant things. he was the...

That. he said he was a social studies teacher at a jesuit high school. >> by the way, i dont have -- in college they like to argue. let me ask you about this whole question. i went out to the gingrich event last night before i got the interview with him late last night. you cant pick your audience. the first person up wanted to talk about m.i.a./p.o.w.s, and the woman said, dont give me that, im going to look it up and look into it. the next person said, everybody here goings to be dead in ten y...

Hes accusing him of being, in fact, he went after w. to get him. so he nailed w. and his entire republican campaign in 04 to trash romney. >> you know, i am always a little bit hesitant, you know, when we do political analysis to talk about, well, its personal, so-and-so doesnt like -- i mean, those things exist, but usually theres a greater strategic aim. that theyre trying to accomplish. theres something else going on. man, everything newt gingrich is doing right now seems -- seems very person...

And dividing that part of the electorate, the anti-mitt romney electorate? >> how are you going to do this? you have to moderate this. hes going to fight a two-front war. >> he is, but newt gingrich is saying that rick santorum is the junior partner. so hes supposed to be the senior partner, right? someones got to slow romney down. if romney is the real front-runner, hes got to demonstrate that he can win big, but he can do it in this state, potentially. thats the expectation. >> whos in the deb...

Theyre ahead. more of the interview with gingrich. here he is, lets listen to his somewhat optimistic view of things. lets listen to newt. jimmy carters another one where he ran against four liberals back in 1976 and won the nomination, but was never really the hero of the party. same thing. and romney, look, hes running against a number of conservatives, yourself, santorum, rick perry, different kind of conservatives. hes splitting the conservative vote. 75% of your party and all the polling sa...

It. he said, santorum doesnt get a piece of that. hes only my junior partner. >> he didnt quite say that. he said santorum wasnt important in passing health care reform. its true. he was a freshman senator and newt gingrich was the speaker of the house. i dont think anyone would say that just the fact that santorum was in the senate makes him senior to gingrich. its a fair comment, also a little bit of a ding, a little bit of a shot, but its based in reality. he gave santorum a little bit of cre...