ronald reagan. president reagan. reagan. >> reagan criticized gingrich saying newt's ideas, quote, would cripple our defense program. >> gingrich responded last night with this. >> to suggest that governor romney is more reagan-like than i am is an act of total fantasy. >> so how problematic is it for the former speaker that people are starting to now draw this, you know, defined contradiction between how he says he is a ronald reagan conservative and people actually holding up to facts that don't say that? >> i think this is an important moment because you have a few days until this primary and for most of the campaign we've seen romney cast as the moderate, gingrich as the conservative and south carolina, the result shows a lot of conservatives behind gingrich. romney needs more con zef tive votes and one way to get that is to cut back gingrich's credentials and say he is not as con zer tive as you think he is. this is a big moment if romney