perhaps exaggerated was largely true. so it s hard to fight back against that. the second thing he didn t have any money. if you want to get into if you are campaigning on the airwaves and you don t have the money to buy ads, normally what you do is you either do an ad or series of ads that defends you against the charges that are made which leaves you on the defensive or fight back by attacking the person who is attacking you. the problem with that kind of campaigning is newt gingrich is known as a scorch earth politician. he needed a different image for this campaign. the image that worked for him was the image uncle newt. the appear fellow. he would have to fight back in kind he didn t and the result is what you have seen. bill: brit hume. thanks very much. next on the run down laura ingraham, bernie goldberg, charisma unlimited up ahead.
him while it was harsh, and perhaps exaggerated was largely true. so it s hard to fight back against that. the second thing he didn t have any money. if you want to get into if you are campaigning on the airwaves and you don t have the money to buy ads, normally what you do is you either do an ad or series of ads that defends you against the charges that are made which leaves you on the defensive or fight back by attacking the person who is attacking you. the problem with that kind of campaigning is newt gingrich is known as a scorch earth politician. he needed a different image for this campaign. the image that worked for him was the image uncle newt. the appear fellow. he would have to fight back in kind he didn t and the result is what you have seen. bill: brit hume. thanks very much. next on the run down laura ingraham, bernie goldberg, charisma unlimited up ahead.
perhaps exaggerated was largely true. so it s hard to fight back against that. the second thing he didn t have any money. if you want to get into if you are campaigning on the airwaves and you don t have the money to buy ads, normally what you do is you either do an ad or series of ads that defends you against the charges that are made which leaves you on the defensive or fight back by attacking the person who is attacking you. the problem with that kind of campaigning is newt gingrich is known as a scorch earth politician. he needed a different image for this campaign. the image that worked for him was the image uncle newt. the appear fellow. he would have to fight back in kind he didn t and the result is what you have seen. bill: brit hume. thanks very much. next on the run down laura ingraham, bernie goldberg, charisma unlimited up ahead.
perhaps exaggerated was largely true. so it s hard to fight back against that. the second thing he didn t have any money. if you want to get into if you are campaigning on the airwaves and you don t have the money to buy ads, normally what you do is you either do an ad or series of ads that defends you against the charges that are made which leaves you on the defensive or fight back by attacking the person who is attacking you. the problem with that kind of campaigning is newt gingrich is known as a scorch earth politician. he needed a different image for this campaign. the image that worked for him was the image uncle newt. the appear fellow. he would have to fight back in kind he didn t and the result is what you have seen. bill: brit hume. thanks very much. next on the run down laura ingraham, bernie goldberg, charisma unlimited up ahead.
war on religion. you re in the situation room. but first, this just coming in right now at this moment, our brand new poll shows newt gingrich leading the pack in three of the first four states to hold republican presidential contests. with less than a month to go before republicans start voting, newt gingrich has double digit leads in iowa, south carolina, and florida. he trails mitt romney in new hampshire but they still have some competition. ron paul essentially tied with romney in iowa and double digit support in new hampshire. let s discuss these numbers. they spell it exactly the same but they pronounce their names differently. he pronounces it incorrectly. we won t discuss the history right now. iowa is coming up january 3. here is what we have in our cnn time magazine poll numbers. gingrich, 33%. romney 20, ron paul 17, perry 9, bachmann 7, santorum 5 and huntsman 1. it s a rather dramatic lead in iowa for newt gingrich. and a rather difficult state to ap