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Enough life to see newt gingrich as the possible nominee of the republican party? how do you feel about that? >> well i'll have to divide the question as you can do in a parliamentary situation. leaving my life aside, yeah, i think a very real chance he will be the nominee, i think an analogy odd as it may seem to the 1972 democratic race. mitt romney is looking like ed muskie, a very responsible guy, he was somewhat thoughtful, he was much more substantive, i don't mean to dishonor him by comparing him. there is an anger, gingrich has made himself the em bodiment of the anger. they are not pe...

History. is that an electability issue or you don't agree with them today what they think. >> i think they are legitimate in saying -- they realize how bad this bill is and every republican up there and every republican that's been up there wants to repeal obamacare. question is winning the election on this issue, which is if not the central issue in this campaign, certainly one of the top two or three. and we have someone who is badly compromised by having put a plan together that was the model for obamacare, and another who is badly compromised, speaker gingrich, who supported the core featu...

Goes up against $1 billion obama machine? >> and that's the prism, right? the question has been for a year and a half, for a lot of establishment republicans, could mitt romney take a punch? very few were thrown at him let alone landed on him for the better part of a year. and now unforced errors. >> punching himself. >> he now looks like this guy who has kind of lost control of his public image and he's got -- part of him being portrayed and getting caricatured of gordon gekko, and part as ritchie rich. and that's happened over the span of this last week. the first time he's been under fire, ...

Here in south carolina, it's all coming down to electability. that's what mitt romney hopes. his super pac started to make the case that romney's rivals just can't win. listen to this one that goes after rick santorum. >> rick santorum's been in washington so long, he's called the ultimate washington insider. santorum voted to raise the debt limit five times and for billions in wasteful earmarks. >> joining me now, former democratic governor of south carolina, governor jim hodges. you get to play observer. you're watching all this, you live here, have friends on both sides of the aisle. this e...

Conservative but i'm not perfect. president bush's signature initiative with no child left behind, i voted for it, i shouldn't have. it was something that i said and i'll say publicly that we should repeal. in fact, we should repeal all of the federal government's role in primary and secondary education. if you give me the opportunity, i'll do that. >> explanation, people of south carolina need? >> well, i think it was a good explanation. you know, rick santorum like so many of the other folks in this race are good people. they're honorable people and so we got some great choices. but it all c...