chris: we do have to say in fairness, this guy has died twice and he s been resuscitated twice. i ve been wrong. i said he was dead twice. chris: right. i wouldn t be writing him offment let me pick up on one last thing, brit. and that is the conversation i was having at the end with paul ryan. primary fights are fasty. this oneng seems to have gotten it seems toonal and be about kind of strange subjects for republicans. how did you make your money? where did you make your money? what are you paying in tax as soon as are theywh cutting each other up in a way that couldou have lasting damage and help obama? at the end of this process, thlde winner will want to try to unite the party, which means mitt romney is going to have to reach out to newt gingrich and his supporters and his supporters chris: or newt gingrich will have to reach out to romney.or exactly. either way. there has been a lot of harsh things said. had is a function. paul s point is well taken, that
it was his way or the highway. gingrich had an idea everych minute and most of them were off the wall. t sir, how do you respond to the charge? you know it s come from a lotuf people who worked with you in the trenches, in congress, in the midin 90s that you were a great insurgent. you were the man who brought te democrats back to the majority for the first time in 40 years, but that you couldn t manage the house let alone the presidency.s look, we ve tried a moderate in 1996 and he couldn t debate bill clinton effectively and he lost. we tried a moderate in 2008. he couldn t debate barak obama effectively and we lost. i think we nominate a moderate this year, the gap between romneycare and obamacare is about that big. i think it will be very hard for romney to defend himself. but let s taketh the case of