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To be president. 34% say he doesn't. for mitt romney, the numbers were much worse. 20% say he has the right characteristics. 31, no, he's in the minority now. but look at newt's numbers here right now. only 17%, what, one in seven, are confident he has the right personal characteristics to be president of the united states. by the way, the public is pretty aware of this guy. and a whopping 42% say, no, he doesn't. that lack of confidence in gingrich on the part of the american people shows in the general election matchup where it's obama, 51, gingrich, 40. an 11-point spread. peter, you wrote ...

Difference. all of these republican voters want to hear is what you and peter just talked about, somebody who's willing to use rhetoric. and newt has mastered incendiary rhetoric. >> it sounds like the stuff you get from the middle east. this crazy kind of talk. >> over the top, incendiary. that's his specialty. he has been working on that for years. >> so how many nuclear weapons would you give him to control? >> i wouldn't give him any. and here's what's interesting, chris. many republicans who worked with him in the house don't want him anywhere near the nuclear buttons either. >> go ahead,...

Rhetoric. and newt has mastered incendiary rhetoric. >> it sounds like the stuff you get from the middle east. this crazy kind of talk. >> over the top, incendiary. that's his specialty. he has been working on that for years. >> so how many nuclear weapons would you give him to control? >> i wouldn't give him any. and here's what's interesting, chris. many republicans who worked with him in the house don't want him anywhere near the nuclear buttons either. >> go ahead, peter. >> sorry to interpret. >> you're in. >> i guess that's true. i guess i would consider this. i mean, the more republican...

That newt gingrich has absolutely no discipline. he's intemperate. and he is going -- >> this past week he does. >> but that's just a week. we have weeks and weeks to go, and he's going to lose it in these primaries, chris. he's going to blow up. >> let me ask you that key question. the one i'm watching, peter, and you're reporting this story well. here's the key question. we've all watched newt in his crazier times. men want to go off and kill giraffes, an absolutely crazy, loony tunes comment, which can only expressed by him, because it means nothing. can he now recognize that he does have a...

but the big reason newt gingrich is the republican front-runner right now, he's a bomb thrower. he's willing to call president obama kenyan anti-colonialist. he's explained his marital infidelity by saying that it was so patriotic. he'll say the zaniest thing because the angriest republicans love to hear them. we've collected newt's five worst stink bombs, if you will, and we're going to bring them to you tonight for memory's sake. and watch what happens went mitt romney meets a gay vietnam veteran. >> i want to know how you feel, that you do not believe that everyone is entitled t...