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