Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney had some sharp, if lighthearted, comments about rival Newt Gingrich’s candidacy this morning on MSNBC. Romney suggested that Gingrich will fall, just as earlier flash-in-the-pan candidates (such as Herman Cain) surged and then lost support.
“I expect [Gingrich] will lead until he doesn’t lead,” Romney said on Morning Joe about recent polls showing Gingrich’s support. He joked that if Gingrich wins the nomination, the Republican Party “would have missed a great opportunity to nominate me.”
More seriously, Romney also discussed his time as Mormon missionary in France. “You [learn to] understand rejection,” Romney said. “You don’t measure yourself and your success by how other people react but instead by how you’re doing and how you feel about the things you care about.”
