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>> these are a couple venerable debaters. i think we've seen it. these are the final two. one-on-one debates, or even three with ron paul, shows that he can give as well as he can take, it's going to be an interesting, long primary campaign if it, indeed, goes long. but i'll tell you, obviously, what we're seeing in the polls, it's instructive that newt gingrich broughtp 1994. that is his key strengthnd it is romney's key issue. what was newt gingrich doing in october of 1994. he was leading a coervative evolution. that's the one big memory. i had a rmney person tell me that every negative the...

Nationally, as is the case in the president' health care legislation. something that gingrich supported, as well, in the early '90s. it was michele bachmann who tk them on as whether they're real conservatives, coining a phrase, newt/romney. listen. >> you want a difference, michele bachmann is the proven conservative. it's not newt romney. >> i know newt gingrich, and newt gingrich is a friend of mine. but he and i areot clones. i promise. >> do you buy that? who is the real conservative out of those two. you have to go through one or both of them to win in iowa. >> well, i think they come fr...

He builds companies. transfmational change in massachusetts. that's the mitt romney i know. this campaign has dinished him by maki him smaller than his great base heal really revea. >> there ishis attempt at real contrast. what i thought was another major moment and it wasn't the debate last night, was the contst romney painted of himself versus gingrich on thisissue of gingrich saying that the palestinians were an invented peop. watch. >> i wi exercise sublime care, stability, i'm not a bomb thrower. rhetorically or literally. >> i think sometimes it is helpful for the president with the crag...

Up on the screen. south carolina first, it is ginh, going away. lindsey graham said he'd win the electio in south carolina if it were to today. d in frida, it's gingrich, going away. major moment, of course, the polling, the status of the rac and what happened last night in iowa. here was the moment between romney and gingrich. watch. >> look, the only reason he didn't become a career politician is he lost to teddy ennedy in 1994. >> now, wait a second. now wait a second. the idea that if i'd haveeaten ted knedy i could he been a areer politician. that's probably true. if i wou have been able ...

>> who is like him out there? >> well, i think people like -- first of all, i think each of the candidates had their moments last night an did very well. and people likehe fact that ronald reagan told it likeit was. i was an early rean supporter here in 1976. i'm proud of the leaderip that he provided for this country under the malaise that we were under back under jimmy carter, and we had president that brought america back, and we built our economy, and we need a presidt that has that kind of courage. not somebodthat's going to divide the american pople one agait the other. wneed to reduce t...