Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20111221:06:33:00
Newt gingrich really likes this. i think he warms to this narrative because he does see himself as a statesman like figure in the mold of a churchill or reagan who he emulates. he's always fighting this notion that he's sort of a low-ball tactician. he likes the taking the high road and he's making a virtue of necessary see. he doesn't have the resources to fight back against this kind of blistering ad barrage. instead, he's trying to make the negative ads themselves the issue and frame a really close choice between establishment and negative ads as usual and it's the only avenue open to him, ...