his opponent, someone named virginia shaffer. and at one point she says in a statement the, if she win, she's going to move to d.c., her husband -- her family will still in the district so they can have their lives, he can have his business. and gingrich jumps on it and says, look, she wants to break up her family. she's a radical, puts everything above moral values. it was really a low blow. and he's in congress, and we can talk about it, but by the early 1980s he is basically saying republicans need to do whatever necessary to finally regain power after being the minority party since 1954. and he starts to do these outlandish and pretty vicious things as part of his partisanship. and he catches people's attention. >> so one of the ways he does that, of course, is through this group he's the ringleader of, the conservative opportunity society. i don't think a lot of people know about it. tell us about that. >> he organizes -- he's not really an organizationer, it's funny. he doesn't want to be on committees, he just wants to get