caused in bankruptcy, i ll be happy to give back the money he s a very good debater and a koupt puncher. we re saying that in this campaign, mark. i think his criticisms of newt in regard to fannie mae and freddie mac really hit the mark. right now, people are concerned about that. ron paul made that point, for sure. i think a lot of folks have made that point. the history is there. and i think newt is going to have a hard time explaining that away. are you comfortable with mitt romney? he certainly has a record that is as divided from the tea party as any of these other candidates? i don t think we re generally comfortable with any of them. we re not looking for the ideal candidate. we re looking for somebody to do the best job of representing tea party values. they re all talking tea party values. that s the part that excites us. from bachmann to romney to newt, they re all talking about it. could you support romney? on a personal level, frankly, ultimately in the e
and kept on hitting himself. kept on going, kept on smiling. there was one moment where he lost his cool a little bit with michele bachmann, pushed back a little bit hard. that was the one time you saw sort of old newt. but absolutely, he is continuing his momentum streak. he had real energy at his event in iowa this weekend. i was there. mitt romney did not have comparable energy. mitt romney has a problem on his hands. when we talk about mitt romney, new hampshire, iowa is a stretch for him. we knew that this was something that was not in the cards for him. depends on how he places in new hampshire. that s a must-win for him. we always that florida was going to be the firewall, assuming that newt gingrich would do well in south carolina. that s looking very different right now. you re also seeing in florida newt gingrich s numbers against president obama, while they re a little worse than mitt romney s, they re not so dramatically worse that it s really so easy for mitt romney
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the old newt, the guy who was the only speaker in the united states to have been admonished for e for, oh, what, using college courses for political purposes. he s this outsider and been doing all these good works and he s calm and reformed and he s found god. that s the whole premise. the thing about the comments he made is that s the old newt. that s the true vindictive person who s in there. i think it s just a matter of time before we see more of that come to the surface. i think we think of old newt, the so-called bad newt as a person who s vindictive against his political enemies, a person sharp tongued in a way that sometimes didn t serve him well against people that were his political equals. this is picking as a scapegoat, kids. and he after doing it he hasn t backed off of it so much as he keeps explaining it. he does get applause for it at republican events.
are we at a point that people are ready for a scapegoat? we ve seen in polls for some time now, there s a sense initially when the economic downturn started, right, people were taking some responsibility, maybe it was a mortgage i couldn t afford. now people are sick of that. it s, okay, whose fault is it? congress is broken, is it your fault because you re irresponsible? it goes back to the idea of the welfare queen in that it goes to this idea that people are irresponsible. he was trying to say, well, it s not the kids fault that they re irresponsible. poor people don t know the value of work. they have nobody to teach them. my goodness. the one thing i say, though, about the new/old newt, he s a vindictive guy but a guy who lets his ego get out of control. he s an ideas guy who lets his ideas get away from him. that was part of the problem