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And newt understands that this is not the girl scout cookie drive. this is big-time politics. he's been engaged in this for 30 years. he knows what's involved. and he ought to let it roll off his back. the problem with newt is he can't laugh at himself. if he could laugh at himself, he'd be far better off and a far better leader, by the way. >> mary, i know you like him. you respect him, as many do. can he turn things around at this point? >> well, he can, and will, and has vowed to continue to make an impact. what he has done is strange in that he's relinquished a winning strategy of being th...

but back to the ads and also keeping them honest, how clean are speaker gingrich's hands or rick perry or anyone else's. in his concession speech last night from beginning to end, speaker gingrich ignored the attack ads. >> they really wanted to get to the truth rather than the latest 30-second distortion. i would not have survived in this campaign against millions and millions of dollars of negative advertising. if it weren't for the thousands of volunteers who showed up and who helped us in every town and in every precinct, and every one of us that are members, what made part of th...

other guy's back or front. newt said attack ads helped knock him to a fourth place finish last night in iowa. romney squeaking to victory over senator santorum. santorum picking up -- congresswoman michele bachmann suspending her campaign today. but back to the ads and also keeping them honest, how clean are speaker gingrich's hands or rick perry's or anyone else's. in his concession speech last night from beginning to end, gingrich praised iowans who ignored attack ads. >> they really wanted to get to the truth rather than the latest 30-second distortion. i would not have survived i...

keeping them honest, how clean are are speaker gingrich's hands or rick per yis or anyone else's? we'll start with the concession speech speaker gingrich praised iowans who ignored the attack ads. >> they would listen and they really wanted to get to the truth rather than the latest 30-second distortion. i would not have survived in this campaign against millions and millions of dollars in negative advertising if it wasn't for the thousands of volunteers who showed up and who helped us in every town and in every precinct. it's part of what made these negative ads so shameful. every o...

No one debated the merits. what was debated is whether or not it could get adequate support and whether or not the rules are so fungible that they could ever be tacked down enough to be changed. but you think that this was ultimately defeated by the rules just being used against you, not by a lack of support. >> well, certainly, we never got to that point where people had to show all their cards about using 51 under the constitutional option. and there was some can concern about us exercising that door, and thereby giving the republicans additional encouragement to use that pathway to years fr...