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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsGingrich Anoints Himself The Anti-Establishment Candidate
Gingrich Anoints Himself The Anti-Establishment Candidate
Eric Kleefeld & Pema Levy
As the remaining Republican presidential candidates pivot from South Carolina to Florida, Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney have two very different purposes. Gingrich is trying to capitalize on all the themes that handed him a 22-point victory Saturday in South Carolina while Mitt Romney is trying to undo the damage and hit the reset bottom.
Making the rounds on the Sunday talk shows, Gingrich went all in as the anti-establishment candidate. In Florida my case is going to be very simple, Gingrich said on Meet The Press. You have a clear establishment candidate in Mitt Romney. And you have somebody whose entire career has been a Reagan populist conservative.
Gingrich tailored his anti-establishment rhetoric to a Florida audience, providing a preview of what issues he will be hitting over the next ten days leading up to the Florida primary on Jan. 31. One key issue that is likely to dominate and which Gingrich raised several times on Sunday is the housing crisis and the high foreclosure rate in Florida in particular. Calling himself a Reagan populist, Gingrich noted on that Florida has endured one of the most painful periods with housing mortgages and the price of housing and the difficulties in the housing area. Drawing an implicit line from Romney to the housing crisis, Gingirch said, As they look at the big boys on Wall Street they look at the guys in Washington, they know none of that help got down to average everyday Floridians. And I think that gap creates a real anger against the national establishment.
Gingrich, who received a standing ovation last Thursday when he began CNNs presidential debate by decrying the media, is also beating the elite media drum. People are just sick and tired of being told what theyre allowed to think, what theyre allowed to say, Gingrich told NBCs David Gregory. The highest, the most intense passion in both debates was a head-on collision about what the news media was doing. And I think theres something real and deep there.
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Eric Kleefeld & Pema Levy
As the remaining Republican presidential candidates pivot from South Carolina to Florida, Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney have two very different purposes. Gingrich is trying to capitalize on all the themes that handed him a 22-point victory Saturday in South Carolina while Mitt Romney is trying to undo the damage and hit the reset bottom.
Making the rounds on the Sunday talk shows, Gingrich went all in as the anti-establishment candidate. In Florida my case is going to be very simple, Gingrich said on Meet The Press. You have a clear establishment candidate in Mitt Romney. And you have somebody whose entire career has been a Reagan populist conservative.
Gingrich tailored his anti-establishment rhetoric to a Florida audience, providing a preview of what issues he will be hitting over the next ten days leading up to the Florida primary on Jan. 31. One key issue that is likely to dominate and which Gingrich raised several times on Sunday is the housing crisis and the high foreclosure rate in Florida in particular. Calling himself a Reagan populist, Gingrich noted on that Florida has endured one of the most painful periods with housing mortgages and the price of housing and the difficulties in the housing area. Drawing an implicit line from Romney to the housing crisis, Gingirch said, As they look at the big boys on Wall Street they look at the guys in Washington, they know none of that help got down to average everyday Floridians. And I think that gap creates a real anger against the national establishment.
Gingrich, who received a standing ovation last Thursday when he began CNNs presidential debate by decrying the media, is also beating the elite media drum. People are just sick and tired of being told what theyre allowed to think, what theyre allowed to say, Gingrich told NBCs David Gregory. The highest, the most intense passion in both debates was a head-on collision about what the news media was doing. And I think theres something real and deep there.
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http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/01/gingrich-and-romney-pivot-to-florida.php?ref=fpnewsfeed
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Gingrich Anoints Himself The Anti-Establishment Candidate (Original Post)
ProSense
Jan 2012
OP
Ah yes, the "anti-establishment" made a career from inside the establishment.
FarLeftFist
Jan 2012
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ddeclue
(16,733 posts)1. In other news.. sun sets in East.. black is white.. up is down...
Yeah Newt is anti-establishment and I have a bridge to sell you in Tampa...
liberal N proud
(60,332 posts)2. The establishment is the anti establishment
Using the media to blast the media
Prosecuting an adultere while being an adulterer
The hypocrisy is piling ever deeper in the waste land called America.
SharonAnn
(13,771 posts)10. Right, but I thought the GOP WAS the establishment.
liberal N proud
(60,332 posts)11. That's what I thought too, but...
As usual they are projecting.
Cleita
(75,480 posts)3. Really? So now he's a hippie from the sixties?
I think not.
Sheepshank
(12,504 posts)4. Well, I suppose *this* isn't normal established behaviour/chatter either....
BumRushDaShow
(128,343 posts)5. So is he now going to embrace OWS?
After suddenly talking about "big boys on Wall Street"?
He's obviously aware of OWS and knowing they aren't affiliated with a party, he's going to try to get their votes by being "anti-Wall Street" too?
This won't go well so good luck with that, Mr. Lobbyist!
FarLeftFist
(6,161 posts)6. Ah yes, the "anti-establishment" made a career from inside the establishment.
Initech
(100,027 posts)7. Because when I think of anti-establishment...
Newt Gingrich is the first name I think of!
Gingrich Falsely Claims He Was Completely Exonerated In Ethics Investigtion
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002202099
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002202099
zappaman
(20,606 posts)9. ya gotta give him credit for being a total asshole
he really seems to have NO shame.