equivalent when i started out in 1967 talking with a guy who started working in politics in 1922. and i m just i hadn t realized i was at a point when the phone rang i flinched saying what new problem is this? so i expect to do a lot of public policy advocacy. yeah. i also think the way it s working now, there s a set of attitudes in the country i don t agree with in terms of, one, i think people are unduly pessimistic about government and elected officials. being an elected official in the congress. i ve always thought i was better at legislating than campaigning. i like doing the work on the inside, but the scope for that now has been very constricted by the attitudes. so there s some offset to me. for instance, i will say the same things about public policy going forward that i said in the past. but there ll be less cynicism. you re just saying that to get elected, i have a better chance
institutions we conservatives believe. we believe that fannie and freddie started a fire that almost took down our entire kpli economy. we conservatives believe that. i don t disagree with that, by the way. we conservatives believe it, but newt doesn t. and why doesn t newt? because he was getting paid $1.6 million. and there s all of these he calls other people socialists, the cbo, for instance, a socialistic institution and yet he supported a $7 trillion medicare part d benefit, which was the most socialistic, biggest spending program on the books since lbj. these are the inconsistencies that drive me crazy about newt gingrich. it s all true, but remember that rick perry and jon huntsman have their own set of flaws. they are flawed candidates in their own ways. they re not necessarily great alternatives to romney. all right. we ve got to somehow turn the newt how do we stop talking about newt? no, i think, again, it s i think newt s going to take up a