that in a debate the counter punch is often more powerful than the punch, chris asked a fair question but it was a tough punch at newt saying your campaign has melted down, you re a million dollars in debt and newt counter punched by saying let s get rid of the gotcha questions. it also shows that in politics, in a debate, people tend to do things twice. the cloud was with him the crowd was with them, he gave a tough response about how this was inconsequential but later bret baier came and asked him look, you ve got two different positions on libya, which one is it, and newt returned and said that s a gotcha question, i m not going to get into that, so people tend to do things, keep doing the same thing, if it works in a debate and sometimes it doesn t work. alisyn: newt s point was i just want to focus on the issues, not on some of the sillyier points, and they did talk, obviously, a lot about debt and taxes and economic issues, but mitt