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Millbank. >> good evening, lawrence. >> what was the guy thinking? i don't think that you were allowed to say that there was radical change from the right? >> it's the old michael kinsly rule that a gaffe in washington is when you accidentally speak the truth. newt's been known to do this from time to time. he's shot his mouth off in unhelpful ways before. i think this is a revealing moment. not necessarily because what it says about newt. he's got enough troubles. what it says about the republican party. he really hasn't changed all that much. he's been into this individual mandate on and off...

I don't think that you were allowed to say that there was radical change from the right? >> it's the old michael kinsly rule that a gaffe in washington is when you accidentally speak the truth. newt's been known to do this from time to time. he's shot his mouth off in unhelpful ways before. i think this is a revealing moment. not necessarily because what it says about newt. he's got enough troubles. what it says about the republican party. he really hasn't changed all that much. he's been into this individual mandate on and off for the better part of a couple of decades. he has had common caus...

Supported him since. the character is amazing and i would welcome such a ticket. pat writes, i hope not. personally i think that joe biden is great. he is a working class guy and possesses a first-class intellect and keen sense of foreign policy and as for the gaffes michael kinsly once wrote that a gaffe is when a politician accidentally tells the truth. after all of the pandering and promises of both sides in washington, we could use a healthy dose of the truth these days. and this one, what a great idea and then hillary could run for president in 2012 and then chelsea clinton and then malia...

And brown is in that same situation. by the way, i don't disagree with michael in regard to the word "bigot" being awfully strong in regard to this woman. immigration is a big issue, a hot issue right now in england. a lot of working-class voters are, indeed, upset about it. maybe they understand the facts, maybe they don't. but you don't say something condescending like calling her a bigot simply because she's worried. so that's the kind of thing that could sink them into third place. >> let's take a look at gerald ford in the 1976 debate with jimmy carter. a lot of us remember this moment. "...

Night? could you believe it? nobody was telling him to shut up because everybody was just aghast at what ford said. it's not what you say, it's what other people hear. >> okay. here's governor romney and one of my personal favorites, mitt romney's father when he was running for president in 1968 and didn't know jack about foreign policy and foolishly started talking about it. here he was asked about why he changed his position on the vietnam war. let's listen to one of the all-timers. >> well, you know, when i came back from vietnam, i just had the greatest brainwashing that anybody can get. w...