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of "meet the press" to see what the question was. my guess is she didn't. >> sometimes we get off in the silly season in campaign. you remember barack obama when he was running, used an old phrase, you can't put lipstick on a pig. and everybody said, he was talking about sarah palin. this is not a silly gaffe. this is a health care system for tens of millions of americans. the republicans, in the words of "the wall street journal," want to essentially end medicare and put insurance companies in charge, which will cost seniors more. this is the most important domestic i think issue and budgetary issue in front of the country. >> and it was the issue that the shut down fight was over, looking for a way to reduce the growth of medicare expenditures. >> so rich, can gingrich recover from this? >> sure, he is. four years ago i was one of the geniuses that kept saying the mccain campaign was over and he was over when he accepted the