...ation of events. And as John Kerry taught us all in 2004, not responding to the media’s criticism is also not an option. The solution? Change the message. At. Every. Possible. Opportunity. As other candidates fell one-by-one, Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney remained top contenders – not by acknowledging their problems, but by using their strengths to hide them. Newt and Mitt both avoided being boxed in by the media, but the methods in which they di...
The problem with megalomaniacs is that they never stick to the script. Newt Gingrich is one of the few men in American public life that can get away with saying whatever he wants. Whatever nuance exists in his public persona is masked by the verbal violence he does to anyone who gets in his way. The conventional wisdom is that this strength, by far his greatest, will be his undoing. The reality is more complicated. Newt Gingrich has already impl...
...withstanding, Clinton enjoyed enormous successes as President. The economy boomed. He presided over a federal government with a projected budget surplus for the first time since 1969. He signed a landmark welfare reform bill. Newt Gingrich was embarrassingly deposed as Speaker of the House just four years after taking office, reflecting the reversal of his party’s fortunes. President Clinton left the White House with high approval ratings and gre...
...ng Ron Paul when he said, “That wizard’s just a crazy old man.” Unlike Obi-Wan Kenobi, however, Paul doesn’t have any Jedi mind tricks to play. When the votes are cast, Ron Paul will be nowhere near the Republican nomination. Newt Gingrich is a marginal player at this point, and if Santorum is able to continue carrying the fight to Romney, the former Speaker may not even be able to hold the South. The Republicans may not even arrive at their conv...
photo from Wikimedia Commons It was inevitable that President Obama and Vice President Biden would begin attacking Mitt Romney’s former role as co-founder and head of the highly successful Bain Capital private equity firm. Voters got a preview of this sort of attack back during the primaries, when a pro-Newt Gingrich Super PAC released a laughably misinformed video slamming Romney for the failure of a few companies in which Bain had invested. N...
From Wikimedia Commons We live in a country that is touchy about money and is deeply concerned, if not obsessed, with lavish displays of wealth. When the CEOs of Ford, General Motors, and Chrysler were summoned to a congressional hearing, they were reamed by the presiding representatives for arriving by private jet. Newt Gingrich criticized Mitt Romney in the recent Republican primary for being too rich to care about the concerns of the...
...o cast him as an out-of-touch corporate vulture, but this will provide Romney with an excellent opportunity to take the high road and steer clear of such dirty campaigning. Back before his primary campaign sputtered and died, Newt Gingrich repeatedly tagged Obama as a “Saul Alinsky-radical”, in reference to the leftist founder of community organizing, as well as bringing up the old Bill Ayers/Weather Underground ghost. This was foolish then and i...
...too concerned with driving away far-right voters to present himself as the moderate in the race. Forcing a more conservative bent on his politics was a necessity in the Republican primary, where his fellow candidates (chiefly Newt Gingrich) called Romney a “Massachusetts Moderate” as if centrist politics were anathema to the American voter. But they aren’t. If anything, the number of Americans who identify as “socially liberal, fiscally conservat...
...ld crush one pillar of the extreme Republican right, which in the 2011-2012 primary season so defiantly defeated competitive, centrist candidates such as Jon Huntsman. Oh if the Michelle Bachmanns, the Rick Santorums, and the Newt Gingrichs of 2012 would be replaced by the Jon Huntsmans and the Marco Rubios of 2016! Immigration reform could save the Republican Party by bringing it closer to the political center, thereby reinvigorating American po...
...t case in 2010. The effect of the Court’s decision is that individuals, or individuals grouped together into super PACs, may spend as much money as they please on advertisements and other forms of speech in support of (or, as Newt Gingrich certainly found out, in opposition to) candidates for political office. To maintain the integrity of the campaign process, candidates are strictly forbidden by law from interacting or otherwise cooperating with...
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