Newt Gingrich floats the idea of he and Rick Santorum teaming up, so to speak, against Mitt Romney.
Audio below is Gingrich on the Laura Ingraham show:
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Ingraham: "Can you see a scenario under which the two of you [Santorum and Gingrich] would align together to try to defeat the establishment candidate Mitt Romney?"
Gingrich: "Absolutely. Of course. I mean Rick and I have a 20 year friendship, we are both rebels, we both came into this business as reformers, we both dislike deeply the degree to which the establishment sells out the American people. We both think Washington has to be changed in very fundamental ways, and we have lots of things that fit together. And the thing that's interesting is if you take the votes, you add to that Perry and Bachmann, you begin to see the size of the conservative vote compared to Romney...if you take, you know, Santorum and Perry and Bachmann and Gingrich you get some sense of what a small minority Romney really represents."
Santorum took second place behind Mitt Romney last night in the Iowa caucuses, losing by a mere eight votes and Gingrich has consistently focused on attacking Barack Obama's record over the last three years.
Romney has always had a "conservative" problem, it being the that a very large segment of conservatives simply do not like him, agree with his policies, nor do they want him as their GOP nominee to go up against Barack Obama in 2012.
An alliance between Gingrich and Santorum could very well knock Romney down a peg or two.
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