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Nominee bob dole, you remember last week, after gingrich saying his former congressional colleague is not suited to be president and that his candidacy actually could hurt the party in state and local races. the 2008 republican presidential nominee, john mccain offered his own criticism to the former speaker. yesterday on "meet the press." >> we had some rather unpleasant experiences with newt gingrich. one of them was the government shutdown in 1995. and bob dole is the one that finally called a halt to it because it was killing us. i mean, the american people rejected the idea of us shutting...

The fire and got welfare reform passed, and we were winning elections and his personality and leadership skills didn't seem to be a problem back then, but when the poll numbers dropped off and started to lose elections we should have won, everything changed and mitt romney has been the frontrunner for a long time. >> is the real fear, as governor christie said last week, that he is an embarrassment to the republican party. >> i would not say that, but i would say we had rather unpleasant experiences with newt gingrich, and one of them was the goverent shut down, and bob dole is the one that ca...

Operation. >> and santorum suggested last night that teaming up is a no go and is prepared for his own contrast campaign to become the conservative alternative to romney. >> i'm not looking to -- to structure any kind of deals with anybody. when i have contrasted myself, i've tried to do so respectfully and i will contrast myself with the other candidates in the race. >> romney has stayed out of the race having surrogates do some santorum attacking for him. >> believe me, earmark spending is the gateway to corruption, and that was practiced when republicans were in the major y majority. senato...

Night that teaming up is a no go and is prepared for his own contrast campaign to become the conservative alternative to romney. >> i'm not looking to -- to structure any kind of deals with anybody. when i have contrasted myself, i've tried to do so respectfully and i will contrast myself with the other candidates in the race. >> romney has stayed out of the race having surrogates do some santorum attacking for him. >> believe me, earmark spending is the gateway to corruption, and that was practiced when republicans were in the major y majority. senator santorum and i have a strong disagreemen...

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