You really don’t see how he could benefit?
Remember when Newt was at 3 to 5% in the polls? Do you remember how he started rising? By ripping into people like Chris Wallace and Maria Bartolomo, that’s how.
I haven’t seen the clip, but if he went on Sharpton’s show and tore him to shreds, do you really not see how that would endear him to conservatives? Really?
Hank
Hank, that was in a debate setting, known as the field of competition. Newt took on the panelists on that field. Newt does not pander out of desperation for exposure to the enemy camp. Santorum obviously does. Newt has no supporters anywhere in sight on Al Sharpton’s zoo hour, and no interest whatsoever in being seen trading barbs with a Marxist simply to serve as entertainment for the Marxist host’s followers, composed of more Marxists.
The settings are quite different. The field is the field. MSNBC, via Sharpton, is the dumpster. It is quite unbecoming for the serious minded candidate to appear, with any grace anyway, in a dumpster.