Round Two for Gingrich?
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Oh, gawd, please tell me it isn’t true. In the name of humanity, do not let that puff of fluff orchestrate another show of Republican mismanagement and hype. Yeah, the Contact with America was a good idea and got you bums elected but that is where it stopped. The voters got screwed and if Newt Gingrich has anything to do with it, we are bound for a round two bend over.
Just go away, Newt. Find a nice shady, wet and warm glade and spend your life eating earthworms and aquatic fare. Damn, newt wit.
From swamppolitics.com dated 11/13/2009 by Mark Silva entitled, “Gingrich: Contract with America round 2“:
Newt Gingrich, the former Republican House speaker and purveyor of the GOP “Contract With America” that helped his party win control of the House after President Bill Clinton’s election, says GOP chairman Michael Steele has started work on a new framework for 2010 that he is calling “First principles.”
“I’ve been talking with Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele, ” Gingrich said today, speaking with students at C-SPAN’s Cable Center Class.
“He is developing a first principles model that I think is a very exciting , positive step in the right direction,” said Gingrich, who has said that he will decide by February about waging his own campaign for president. “B September , it might be very, very good for the Republicans in the House and Senate to have a common ground on which to campaign, whether they call it a Contract for America or some other device.
“Having a positive set of things that say, ‘if you elect us, these are the positive steps we will take,”
{Fool me once, same on YOU, fool me twice, SHAME ON ME!} Gingrich said, on a program that C-SPAN3 is airing at 5 pm EST. This “may well be the key building block to really become the alternative party, not the opposition party.”…“If the Democrats stay stuck over on a very left wing program and if they continue to have a job-killing record in Congress, I think by September and October you could suddenly have a very exciting election.”
The fabled Contract which Gingrich, Dick Armey, Tom Delay and others fashioned six weeks before the midterm congressional elections of 1994 led to a GOP takeover of the House that kept a newly elected Democratic president in check – a formula that the GOP would love to revive for the 2010 midterms.
{Ah, no mention what it did for the voters. Wonder why?!} A Gallup Poll this week found that Republicans are doing well in the “generic candidate” race – with more people saying they are likely to support a Republican than those saying they are likely to support a Democrat.
{THIRD PARTY…THIRD PARTY…THIRD PARTY!!! VOTE PERSON, NOT PARTY!!} Gingrich suggests that his party needs to put more than names on those ballots, and add some principled promises as well.“We didn’t do the Contract until very late in the campaign,” he noted. “You could begin to put together a set of firs principles around which 80 percent of the country would rally… and then come Labor Day, you could begin to look a what are the five or 10 biggest things that the Republicans could offer as their contract for America.”
{America! It’s a con game and your vote is the game. Damn, newt wit!} He’s got four ready to go:
“The No. 1 issue is jobs… The No. 2 issue is energy… The No. 3 challenge… replace the big government monstrosity that they passed on Saturday ( a reference to the Democratic-led House healthcare bill. “The No. 4 challenge is education.”
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It’s like they no longer care about dealing with issues but rather are bent writing advertising slogans to sell their product, i.e. get elected. Politics has taken on the veneer of Madison Avenue and holds all the depth and sincerity of a hair spray commercial. ‘Sell, sell, sell; and be damned if the consumer gets cancer from the ingredients becasue that is not our main concern. Our only concern is to sell, sell, sell and reap the profits.’ Is it any wonder that so many of us are disenchanted by politics on all sides of the fence? It seems all we can do is “cling bitterly” to the things we each believe in and hope that the storm will someday end and the sun will reappear.
Druid Said:
Is it any wonder that so many of us are disenchanted by politics on all sides of the fence? It seems all we can do is “cling bitterly” to the things we each believe in and hope that the storm will someday end and the sun will reappear.
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No truer words were spoken, Druid.