I think the Bain attacks are definitely going to hurt Newt as well. They could also hurt Romney.
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Now that Barack Obama has broken this egg, it will not get put back together.
Barack Obama is not a reformer. He didn't come to change Washington. He came to preserve his own brand.
The reason that's so destructive, especially for Social Security, that if Social Security is no longer a retirement fund and which you take money and give it to the government, they are supposed to invest it for you in Social Security.
The Democrats always want to pay for everything with another tax hike on somebody.
My message to the president and to Senator Harry Reid is congratulations. You're now governing in two-month increments.
And that's my point about the splits. There are so many splits, this is so hard to handicap.
But these issues really are not sticking to Newt. People are saying this about Newt, but this is not what's going to hurt Newt. What's going to hurt Newt is whether Newt blows himself up.
The idea of medical records is actually something he worked on with Hillary Clinton.
I think he should have been blunt and just said that he worked as somebody who gave strategic advice.
Usually, there's one powerful front-runner, and then somebody emerges late and you have that two-person race.
There are a lot of groups that are very important. Tea party. The evangelicals. There's the establishment.
A campaign is based on what can you do for the country and what's the difference between you and the other guy who wants to do something for the country.
If Republicans get convinced that a vote for Newt is a vote for Obama, it really could kill him as this campaign goes along.
If Newt is going to become the nominee, he's got to show a steady stream of polls.
Newt doesn't have a record for staying silent when things are said about him.
I will predict to you that Mitt Romney is very shortly about to take the gloves off and go after Newt Gingrich.
He can be on the 3 a.m. phone call until January 19, 2013. Then it's going to change on the line.
The typical things that we think are red meat just aren't working this year.
We can never racially profile. I will say it right now. It's just wrong for law enforcement of any type to say we're going after one targeted group.





