as you know, hillary and obama, gary hart, walter mondale, bradley and gore. we ve seen it in the past in democrat primaries. i don t recall a republican primary where it s been on vivid display as this year. it is the republican party. nixon used to call it or we used to call it the time in those days, the mink coat party and the cloth coat party. that s exactly right. being at some of these rallies for newt gingrich, not only in south carolina but also in florida. these are folks in tattoos, they are chanting usa, usa. they are the newt people? exactly. i think he s running the same argument against romney that he is against obama to say that both of these folks what s his solution to the fact? what s his populism about, newt s? i think about romney and obama are not one of us. they are not regular americans. they don t get the sort of experiences that newt gingrich, frankly, experienced when he was i don t want to argue the politics here but doesn t newt support th
joining me now is national political reporter for the associated press, casey hunt, and joe madison, host of morning with madison on sirius xm radio. thank you both for being here. thank you, al. casey, doesn t newt s plan to help the rich seem at odds with a broad majority of the american public? well, one thing that is that you can note about newt s plan is that it s actually significantly different from one of his rivals, mitt romney. romney, of course, has fought off accusations or charges from critics that he s too moderate to win the republican nomination. romney s tax plan is actually different from gingrich s in that he would end capital gains taxes and taxes on dividends only for people who make $200,000 a year or less, whereas gingrich s plan essentially eliminates those taxes for everyone. yeah, but it s you re right. it s different, but it goes in the same direction. if you re going in the wrong
institutions we conservatives believe. we believe that fannie and freddie started a fire that almost took down our entire kpli economy. we conservatives believe that. i don t disagree with that, by the way. we conservatives believe it, but newt doesn t. and why doesn t newt? because he was getting paid $1.6 million. and there s all of these he calls other people socialists, the cbo, for instance, a socialistic institution and yet he supported a $7 trillion medicare part d benefit, which was the most socialistic, biggest spending program on the books since lbj. these are the inconsistencies that drive me crazy about newt gingrich. it s all true, but remember that rick perry and jon huntsman have their own set of flaws. they are flawed candidates in their own ways. they re not necessarily great alternatives to romney. all right. we ve got to somehow turn the newt how do we stop talking about newt? no, i think, again, it s i think newt s going to take up a