Romney WAS repeating himself, the same terms he no doubt rehearsed. But he was getting no traction, and really appeared unhinged.
Given the option of arguing with a lunatic, or waving him off, I think Newt chose well. He definitely scored with his Medicare response. And maybe diffused the Freddie issue a wee bit by pointing out some of these GSE programs have done good. <——Translation; lots of you folks would not have gotten homes were it not for Freddie.
Newt did come off tired though. OTOH, ‘calm, reserved Newt’ might unfortunately be perceived as “tired”.
Yeh. I just felt his response was not as good as usual. But it was ok. I was glad when they moved on.