Behold the Savior of the Republican Party

[BurtWorm]

According to Mother Jones:


http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2009/02/dawn-newt-age



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Whether or not Gingrich is running for anything, he's never had trouble staying in the mix. During the congressional deliberations in September on the Wall Street bailout, he easily became an interloper. nbc News reported that he had privately egged on House Republicans to vote against it. He disavowed that, maintaining that he had been "trying to help it get through." But in public statements, Gingrich sent mixed signals, calling for Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson to resign. He also railed against the Bush administration, huffing that it had "provided three case studies in arrogance, isolation, and destructiveness: Michael Brown during Hurricane Katrina, Ambassador Bremer in Baghdad, and Secretary Paulson at Treasury...No conservative and no Republican should doubt how much it has hurt our cause and our party."

In the wake of the Obama victory, Gingrich has surfed the postpartisan wave. When the Republican National Committee released an ad attempting to link Obama to Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich, Gingrich pummeled it for engaging "in the sort of negative attack politics that the voters rejected in the 2006 and 2008 election cycles." Shortly after that, when a candidate for the party's chairmanship distributed a parody song called "Barack the Magic Negro," Gingrich declared it was "racist" and "so inappropriate that it should disqualify any Republican National Committee candidate who would use it.

"Has the man whose political action committee once circulated a memo urging Republicans to call Democrats "sick," "pathetic," "corrupt," "selfish," "bizarre," and "traitors" who "lie" and "betray" truly found another way? Not exactly. Commenting on protests against California's anti-gay-marriage amendment Proposition 8, he told Bill O'Reilly, "There is a gay and secular fascism in this country that wants to impose its will on the rest of us." And he and his third wife (the woman with whom he had an extramarital affair during the Clinton impeachment) recently produced a movie aiming to expose the "relentless effort" of the "secular Left" to "drive God out of America's public square."

So who is the real Newt—the Web-savvy wonk toiling to revitalize government, or the canny political strategist gathering ammo and identifying wedge issues for the gop? The answer, of course, is both—and neither Democrats nor Republicans ought to forget that Gingrich pulled off a political revolution once before. "Newt thinks on a grander scale than most of us," Galen says. "And because the Republican Party is on its heels, anyone with grand ideas will be listened to."

[Arugula Latte]

1. Maybe he can revive some of his great ideas that worked so well in the past, like shutting down govt

:eyes:

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

2. Please

the drawing of Newt in half lotus position has made me ill. I'm hoping that he is basically a has-been.

[Myrina]

3. If he's gonna save Steele's GOP, he needs to go Thug, not Spiritual ...

:shrug: Jus' sayin' ...

[graywarrior]

4. He treats women with such respect.

:sarcasm:

[trotsky]

5. You're just jealous that you don't get to go out and hunt giraffes. n/t

[graywarrior]

7. Got me.

[spanone]

6. nuke newt

[bdamomma]

8. He may resurface you never know.

but the repigs seek leadership from Limbaugh, Joe the Plumber and Sarah Palin, and now Mike Steele, Rove can still be in the shadows too.

[BurtWorm]

9. The ones you mention (except Rove) are the mascots of the GOP

They're the little animals the GOP calls on to get the red meaters frothing. But it's the Roves and the Gingriches they relie on to figure out how to win elections, regardless of how much their ideology stinks in most people's nostrils.

[AlinPA]

10. Some of the base loves him, some of them (knuckle draggers in the Appalachians) have

never heard of him and wouldn't understand the big words he sometimes uses and the fundamentalist-evangelicals have other "leaders": Palin, Jindal, Huckabee.

[tanyev]

11. Oh, I think there's a little lady in Alaska who might have something to say about that.

[DFW]

12. Never EVER count on a guy with a limp-wristed handshake

And Gingrich's handshake is like a dead fish. His grand ideas won Congress and ruined the
chances of the Clinton presidency to put the country on such solid footing that even a
Republican administration couldn't undo the damage. Instead, he set the stage for the
total disaster of the Bush Lite presidency. Oh, yeah, his ideas are grand, alright. Like
Grand Fenwick was grand.