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"Romney and Gingrich were in the middle of attacking each other, when Rick Santorum, now trailing badly in Florida, was given a moment to interject. \"The bigger issue here is these two gentlemen, who are out distracting from the most important issues we have by playing petty, personal politics,\" said the man who spent most of the debates (including this one, in Jacksonville) attacking his GOP opponents at every possible moment, whose acrimoniousness once inspired former Senate colleague Bob Kerrey to say his name was \"Latin for asshole.\"\n\n\"Can we set aside that Newt was a member of congress and used the skills that he developed as a member of congress to go out and advise companies and that's not the worst thing in the world, and that Mitt Romney is a wealthy guy because he worked hard and he's going out and working hard, and you guys should leave that alone and focus on the issues!?\" Santorum said.\n\nThe audience, which loves the calls to civility almost as much as they love claims of victimization from their leading GOP frontrunners, and booing gay soldiers, blew up. From then on, it was an escalation of sanctimoniousness, with each candidate trying to pretend he was the most above it all. In short, there was plenty of dickishness to go around. CNN debate moderator Wolf Blitzer next tried to ask Gingrich if he was satisfied with the level of transparency in Romney's tax returns\u2014something the former speaker had been pushing for in the weeks before he released them.\n\n\"This is a nonsense question,\" Gingrich said, mind-bogglingly, but to more cheers. \"How about if the four of us agree for the rest of the evening we'll actually talk about issues that relate governing America?\"\n\nBlitzer reminded Gingrich that it was only this week that he had attacked Romney on his financial disclosures.\n\n\"I did and I'm perfectly happy to say that on an interview on some TV show, but this is a national debate,\" Newt said.\n\n\"Wouldn't it be nice if people didn't make accusations somewhere else that they weren't willing to defend here?\" Romney asked. If you listened closely enough, you could hear their metaphorical white gloves slapping each others' cheeks.\n\n\"Okay, alright. Given that standard, Mitt, I did say I thought it was unusual and I don't know of any American president who had a Swiss bank account.\"\n\nThe two went back and forth like this for a while. When they were done, Blitzer said, \"Mr. Speaker, I'm ready to move on to the next subject if you are.\"\n\n\"I'm happy to, or I'm happy to just say it'd be nice if you applied the same standard to other people that you had for you and didn't resort to personal attacks,\" Gingrich said to Romney.\n\nAll of which had the effect of making a guy who once delivered an elbow smash in the name of bipartisanship look like the biggest guy in the race. Nice work, guys."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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