said unforgivable, i m not going to support you. ryan steps out there, makes this very courageous i ll agree with you. he then steps up and apologizes and says i m sorry, i was wrong, i shouldn t have done it. but then, and with newt he says but then, actually i was right the first time. what does that mean? that s the unsettling and unnerving part. and for those of us who worked with him day in and day out, i remember when we were fighting to reopen the to shut the government down, it was reopened, that battle continued, though, and we finally were making progress, and then newt goes on a flight across the country across the world to israel and he s complaining about being stuck in the back of the plane and said that s why we shut down the government. i remember all of us being bombarded off the house floor in the middle of our legislative battle with dick gephart and the
because newt gingrich made his money in the k street revolving door. he made money from fannie and freddie, he made money from ethanol, he made money from a lot of things that conservatives consider abhorrent. mitt romney made his money doing things that liberals consider abhorrent. using the free market, figuring out what companies had what it took to survive, and what companies needed to be broken down and made stronger and better. and to me, it is a huge difference on how mitt romney made his money and how newt made his. well, not only do liberals disapprove of how mitt romney made his money, newt does, free market capitalism. and that was an interesting lesson. he channeled in the wall street journal yesterday said he was channelling paul krugman and teddy kennedy. staples comes into business and it gets jobs, this is how it works. you may want to criticize, but that s the way it works. this cover of national review was an anti-endorsement
president. rick perry is doesn t have the presidential timber required to be in the office. michele bachmann is not your choice. and basically whittles the field down to three. first let s talk about newt. all right. he s been hammered by george will, by the wall street journal, by red state, he s been hammered by the national review, all of them. what s your take on newt gingrich? you ve known him a very long time. well, if there s a bit of humor in all of this, and there is, you know, though we re not laughing about the current situation. we republicans see, look, he sees the zaniness. i ll give you zany. look, my worry about newt is we don t have an election in which we talk about the issues. we don t talk about obama, don t talk about what s happening in the country. we re going to be endlessly talking about newt. what he said yesterday, he took that back, what he said last
year. it will be about the candidate. that s what happened in 96, 97, and 98, every idea we had had newt wrapped around it. some go up fast and come down fast, but the reaction of the audience is you guys in the establishment, sometimes i m in, sometimes i m out right. you guys in the establishment don t like newt. you beltway guys don t like newt, we like newt. parse that for a second. you beltway guys, you re the problem, therefore we like newt. is anybody more beltway than newt? has anybody been in the beltway longer than newt? has anybody made $100 million in the beltway from newt? romney criticizes newt from making money, where do you make the money? when you make the money from fannie mae and freddie mac, that s a problem. that s a big difference. and let s underline this fact
couple of reasons. i m not sure he is. i think you look at these polls, romney is ahead in most of them ahead of where newt is by three or four points. i kind of go back to 1980. and i remember the carter white house just dying for ronald reagan. ronald reagan was the dumb actor, said incendiary things, was like newt, gosh, you never know what he was going to say and the whole world would go crazy, the new york times would write editorials. there was bush, greatest resume of anyone that ran for president, solid citizen, right on the mark, and it may be that newt is appealing to something that mitt isn t appealing to. there s something wrong when you ve been running as long as mitt has and you re at 25% and you don t go much above and don t go much below, 75% of the other republicans are telling you something about him. what do you think?