guys to go after the perceived front-runner. it s like they ve been nudging each other with their elbows, you do it. the guy that goes after romney, i evidence that. mean newt. mean newt is not going to help good newt get elected. and before i pose a question, i want to play another exchange from this morning. it s jon huntsman hitting back at romney. listen to this. he criticized me while he was out raising money for serving my country in china, yes, under a democrat, like my two sons are doing in the navy, they re not asking what political affiliation the president is. the person who should represent our party running against president obama is not someone who called him a remarkable leader and went to be his ambassador in china. this nation is divided, david, because of attitudes like
you. several people have been shot. the shooting occurred at a grocery store. we have discovered that we have 18 individuals who were shot. a gunman unleashing his fire on the crowd, killing six people. his main target, congresswoman gabrielle giffords. despite taking a bullet to the skull, survives. jared loughner waiting behind bars while authorities try to determine whether he ll ever be sane enough for trial. bells ringing in memorial today at the safeway store where it happened one year ago. the shock still felt a full 12 months later. i want to go to thelma gutierrez in tucson. giffords gets a lot of focus because she did survive, but this day is also about the six others. absolutely. i believe, don, that she would be the first person to tell you that in fact, a memorial service is going on right now. it s in secentennial hall later this evening. at this service, they re talking about all of those who lost their lives, including the popular game zimmerman. he wa
is taking place. newt pulled ahead on one thing that romney had going for him in iowa. electability. he can t let newt have that or he is in really in trouble. i have never seen larger array of institution and others ganging up against one guy. you are losing ground in iowa. the problem is neither are good negative campaigners. if newt is a negative campaigner, he reminds me of the mean newt. romney is a lousy campaigner. negative campaign, that requires a subtlety and skill and politics. i believe it might have been verbose, but intelligent nonetheless. in my neck of the woods, business area there, newt hurt himself with the commentary. look what romney has done bankrupting businesses. romney didn t bankrupt businesses. he took those and consolidated
embrace it? he has got to embrace it. keep in mind his principle platform is creating jobs. what newt is saying here in fact in many of these corporations he took them apart and cost them jobs. now this has been run against romney before. i think that it s not frankly the strongest attack point but, listen, you talked about the traction for gingrich in iowa. one of the reasons is not because herman cain got out. it is because there is array of like i never seen of independent committees and others out against gingrich. they re spending millions of dollars. most of that generated from washington people who don t like him. if you want to see the key attack point, look at peggy noonan s column in the wall street journal. it mimics every bit of the talking points. hear is the problem. newt is not a good attack guy, if he does attack reminds people of old newt, mean newt. mitt romney doesn t have it in him to be a negative campaigner. you got two guys not very well-suited for this
still in control. he leads the closest rival, newt gingrich, by more than eight points. but there are new polls since the republican debate on fox and it remains to be seen which candidate enjoys the post debate butch. carl is live in west columbia, south carolina. you have been following newt gingrich for a while. it is my understanding he looked mean last night and heard some of megyn panelists say that is the mean newt. carl: a lot of folks would argue that the newt gingrich that performed on the debate last night in south carolina is a newt gingrich who is given mitt romney a scare this morning. romney has a big lead and he has organization and advantage having been the winner of new hampshire and iowa but today newt gingrich is trying to press last night s performance. and will unveil new advertisement to run in south carolina asking: who can beat