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To get robbed. >> boy scouts, be prepared. >> right. that is the most important thing. and i think what you have there is a little bit more of an amped up sentiment of what i think is the real sentiment, which is that you have to ask yourself in a campaign oftentimes would i trade my position with anybody else in this campaign? and in this particular instance i don't think boston would. but you still have to earn it. and this is a campaign from the very beginning that has recognized it's going to be a hard-fought battle. polls are going to tighten all the way through every single contest. it h...

Senior strategist to the gore campaign and former senior adviser to john kerry's 2004 campaign and michael steele, former rnc chairman and now an msnbc analyst. thanks to both of you for being here tonight. >> yeah. >> tad, let me start with you. can newt gingrich survive all these attacks? >> well, i think -- i think it's hurting him very badly. i think it's taken its toll. i think he can survive in the sense that he can still be a major force and still be one of the top two candidates, but i think the barrage that's going on right now is probably going to take him down, and if he doesn't thi...

>> everything that gingrich railed against when he was in the house, he went the other way when he got paid to go the other way. >> you're an embarrassment to our party. >> this guy hasn't got skeletons in his closet, he has a whole graveyard in there. >> it's about serial hypocrisy. >> and direct mailers to voters, mitt romney has said he's a flip-flopper, taken both sides on illegal immigration, abortion and ron paul punches as well calling him, quote, a counterfeit conservative with a long record of liberal appeasement. as the "new york times" reports today, the attacks are paying off. acco...

Voters in places like iowa and new hampshire will not support a candidate unless they believe that candidate has a real chance of winning or affecting the outcome of the race. santorum has never crossed the threshold of credibility but ron paul is a real factor and ron paul could win the iowa caucuses, and if he does that, this thing could go on for a long time and he and gingrich together might be able to get enough delegates to stop romney and if that happens that's a great day for the democrats. >> tad devine, michael steele, pleasure having both of you on tonight. >> good to be with you. ...

Begins to turn back on the person doing the attacking. with the super pac money out there doing that, he's got to be very careful, mitt's team, that this doesn't backfire on them when people go into the polls and say, you know what, this just leaves a sour taste in my mouth. and, two, newt has been making a very strong effort, more personal effort, going to voters across iowa on a bus, knocking on doors, telling his story directly to them in groups, and we'll see how that impacts him because he doesn't have the money otherwise to respond, and it's really tough for him right now. >> but how doe...