This Week With George Stephanopoulos - January 22, 2012

Guests:
Rick Santorum
George Will
Katrina vanden Heuvel
Ron Brownstein
Amy Walter
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Stephanopoulos: holy crap Newt Gingrich
crushed Mitt in South Carolina!

Gingrich: I speak for all the normal
people of America

Romney: when you attack me you
attack freedom

Stephanopoulos: Rick will you drop out?

Santorum: no because Mitt Romney is a
Wall Street liberal and Newt Gingrich
had an affair with Nancy Pelosi

Stephanopoulos: those are good points
and yet I help can’t noticing that no
one voted for you

Santorum: but South Carolina is
well-known to be full of insane people

Stephanopoulos: you say Newt is
mentally unstable

Santorum: he’s an undisciplined fat
cheating weirdo

Stephanopoulos: fascinating

Santorum: he got cooties from Nancy Pelosi!

Stephanopoulos: did you really vote for a
museum devoted to letting felons vote?

Santorum: I will kill Medicaid!

Stephanopoulos: you seemed doomed to fail

Santorum: why not let all 50 states
decide who the nominee will be?

Stephanopoulos: but you’re such a dweeb

Santorum: I won Iowa!

Stephanopoulos: Is Mitt Romney
in trouble?

Santorum: of course - conservatives
split the vote and he still lost!

Stephanopoulos: thanks Rickster

[ break ]

Stephanopoulos: wow we’ve had
three winners in three primaries

Will: Romney is losing women and
electability - he has 6 wins and 19 losses

Brownstein: wow the Detroit Lions
are no longer the biggest losers
from Michigan

Will: his biggest flaw is his Romney-ness

Dowd: I disagree - his biggest problem
is his Mitt-ness

vanden Heuvel: Newt is playing on
racial grievances

Stephanopoulos: yes who has more
cause for racial grievance than
white southerners?

Gingrich: I have just realized that
destructive politics is bad

Brownstein: he’s killing among very
angry poor white people

Walter: no one cares about Bain -
they just can't stand Romney

vanden Heuvel: Occupy Wall Street
helped Gingrich

Dowd: Debates matter and consultants don’t

Will: you can’t Newt Gingrich nuclear weapons
- he’s a right looney!

Brownstein: the GOP is becoming poorer
and Mitt can’t connect with them

Will: May I observe the Newt is certifiable

Stephanopoulos: how could Romney not
see this tax issue coming?

Walter: it wasn’t in his original programming

vanden Heuvel: He didn’t think other Republicans
would attack his wealth

Dowd: He never had to before so why bother

Brownstein: the conservatives were all attacking
each other - now they’re going after him
and he’s can’t take it

Will: Republicans across America are waking
saying “dear god what have we done?!”
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