WP: Gingrich Points to Future (21st century Republican governing majority)

[DeepModem Mom]

Gingrich Points to the Future
By Mike Allen and Brian Faler

Monday, August 15, 2005; Page A02


Former House speaker Newt Gingrich gave a PowerPoint presentation to an enthusiastic group of Republican staffers at the Capitol last week that he billed as a blueprint for turning the party's "present, temporary partisan majority" into a "21st century governing majority." Gingrich's handouts also provide an early peek at how he might pursue the Republican nomination for president.

Gingrich, whose current book is titled "Winning the Future," called for "cheerful persistence" and urged Republicans to be "cheerfully funny about our opponents." He said conservatives need to be "relentlessly repetitive, because we are educating those who agree with us against the hidden values of the left."

"Speed, cleverness and shallowness are advantages for the Left," Gingrich, who stayed around to field a flurry of admiring questions, asserted on page 58 of his presentation. "They dominate the elite news media so they will always be able to launch new attacks, have their allies in the bureaucracy create new leaks and focus on analysis that hides their values." He added, "Our core pattern should be 'there is a BIG difference and it is a fact. . . .' We must then take such key facts to immediately illustrate a large vision; we cannot remain in arguments at the detail level."

Last week, an American Research Group poll of likely voters in New Hampshire's Republican primary put Gingrich in second, with 14 percent, after Sen. John McCain (Ariz.), who drew 39 percent....


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/14/AR2005081401037.html

[Lerkfish]

1. dream on, loserboy.

doesn't anyone call them on the idea that a single ruling party is patterning the country after the USSR communism model?

[rodeodance]

3. I would not dismiss him------he carries a lot of clout.

[Lerkfish]

8. I"m insulting him, not dismissing him.

but I agree "loserboy" makes it sound like I am.
I meant, "loserboy" as in he's a Loooser.
kidslang for an asshole.

[MADem]

26. Mr. "Contract ON America" himself

Mr. Book Profits and Ethical Challenges!!!

Mr. "Excoriate Clinton for Sexual Misconduct while getting hummers from my subordinate staffer, whom I later married!"

He is a loser, and an asshole. And if he was so right, how come he is not the Speaker anymore??? Why couldn't he ride it out? Why, because he is an ASSHOLE and even his crew knows it.

He doesn't speak for his pals in the House, and he does not speak for America.

Everytime that jerk opens his mouth, he is wrong. He needs to just GO AWAY...and everytime he pops his head up, someone should say "OOOOOHHHHH, Calista, BLOW JOBS in the Speaker's Chambers....oooooooooh!!!!" He does not like to be reminded of that stunning hypocrisy, and doesn't like his much younger wife to be reminded of it either...

Go away, Newt--you are the one who SUCKS!

[Demeter]

28. This is A Signal That the GOP Has Peaked

When they get over-confident and say stupid things publicly, they are digging their own graves. Gingrich did this last time, too, just before he got thrown out of office.

[getmeouttahere]

2. The never-ending national nightmare...

never forget, folks, these people, with or without BushCo, still want to destroy the social safety net, at the very least.

[xxqqqzme]

22. yea, ole newt and grover

R hand in hand when it comes 2 destroying safety nets and pumping up the Dept of Offense.

[cmd]

4. Cheerfully funny?

What are they teaching our children? If is right to make fun of someone, if you do it cheerfully? Family values? Gag me.

[librechik]

31. yeah, Ann Coulter (kill liberals ha ha) funny? Or Michael Savage

"Hillary Killed Vince Foster ha ha" funny?

I guess as long as they say it cheerfully, it stays light and humourous!

[oneighty]

5. And like all of us

Mr. Getrich there is a future in which you will not be.

180

[GOPFighter]

6. Beating Gingrich SHOULD be a piece of cake

but I'm sure the Democratic "strategists" would bungle it!

[NewJeffCT]

14. beating George W. Bush soundly should have been a piece of cake

It should have been such a landslide that even Diebold couldn't fix it...

[Old and In the Way]

7. Spoken like a guy who knows he holds the ace in the hole.

They own the voting machines and they control the elections.

[deacon2]

23. Amen. Until we fix the voting, the voting is fixed.

This is primary (pun intended). We can blather on ad nauseam about how these proto-fascists are ripe for a fall (and in a rational world, they are). But we forget that Uncle Joe Stalin guides their juggernaut at our own peril, and we may all wake up in a worse nightmare on the Morning After 2006.

[punpirate]

9. This piece of trash thinks...

... it's the far right's destiny to control a democracy for a hundred years. Well, Hitler thought the Third Reich would run the world for a thousand years. It took him and his movement twelve years to self-destruct. It's going to take less than that for this bunch to come apart at the seams.

[AlGore-08.com]

10. "We cannot remain in arguments at the detail level" because - - duh!

That's when the American people dump them like a ton of hot bricks. The failure our side will make is to run away from detail, and try to paint broad pictures, and do everything else the way they do.

[Norquist Nemesis]

12. Funny how the "detail level" contradicts his admirations of

Democrats' "shallowness". Which is it Newt?

[lavenderdiva]

27. This is the exact phrase that stuck out boldly as I read this article...

they 'cannot remain in arguments at the detail level' because anyone delving deeper into their arguments, cannot come away and think that they would be better off personally, or as a nation, voting the Repubs into office!!

[Norquist Nemesis]

11. I want to know what Grover has to say about Newt

If Grover's pushing his grand visions, then Gringrich has a huge underground supporter and could be the sleeper in 2008.

Isn't it ironic how the liberal media does a papparazi parade for Hillary stalking her every move hoping to broadcast a slip-up. Yet it is blind to Gingrich, Tom DeLay is off the radar, Frist gets a pass on medical malpractice from the pulpit, and on and on.

It is Gingrich that is largely responsible for what he now calls the party's "present, temporary partisan majority". He set the tone. He developed the rhetoric. He pushed the hyperbole.

[slay]

13. Gingrich is a delusional liar

I try to respect all people on this planet, but I have NO respect for Republicans these days.

[whoneedstickets]

15. Facts, we don't need no stinking facts.....

"We must then take such key facts to immediately illustrate a large vision; we cannot remain in arguments at the detail level."

Yeah, facts like WMD in Iraq, the benefits of privatized SS and now Intelligent Design (read religious dogma) in the schools. These guys took a holiday from facts back in the Nixon administration and never looked back.

Avoiding details is a necessary strategy when you KNOW your ideas can't withstand a little surface scratching before they implode under the weight of the empirical evidence against them.

[opihimoimoi]

16. That boy getting Arrogant AGAIN??? Last he did, he was Speaker

of the HOUSE. This time he will be reduced to the shit level he came from.

[progressivebydesign]

17. Cheezy adulterer. Who cares what he thinks? n/t

[nookiemonster]

18. "Elite news media????"

Fuck you Newt. Keep dreaming the delusion.

Once Fitzpatrick comes down with indictments, you're party will be marginalilzed and avoided like the plague. Be advised.

Just keep on talkin' ya schmuck. You're a funny guy.

:crazy:

[Zorra]

19. Gingrich knows ELECTRONIC VOTING will insure that exit polls will always

be miraculously inaccurate in the fascist dictatorship.

[GoBlue]

20. Of what Prison? /nt

[gasperc]

21. the left dominates the media elite...really

eom

[kodi]

24. that shit bag can't open his mouth without lying

where is it that "liberals dominate the elite media?"

the NY Times was a judas goat in the march to war with iraq.

the Washington Post is supplying aid and money to the 911 patriot circle jerk.

the major media have virtually ignored the DSM fiasco.

MSNBC fires the leading show it had because of its liberal host and now has almost a wall to wall "apologists for bush" nightly line-up.

CNN can not even tell the truth about the war or american economic health in general.

the allgations of the bureacracy leaking things is merely professionals stating that the bushevik government is lying about virtually everything, from global warming to "clear skies" to mad cow disease.

newt gingrich is a lying sack of shit who should have been deported to an island in the south atlantic for the rest of his miserable life.

so where in the hell is this liberal media juggernaut?

[depakid]

25. More repetition of lies from Pravda on the Potomac

I've come to the conclusion that the Post is actually worse than the Moonie times in the same way CNN is more insidious than Fox.

[Fire Walk With Me]

29. How about "the best person for the job gets elected in our free country"??

[ironman202]

30. doesn't he have a wife to screw over or something?

I thought we'd consigned him to the dustbin of history 8 years ago...let him try for the nomination. He'll do about as well as Phil Gramm (oh, they don't make Repukes like Phil anymore....).

[Hotler]

32. F#&k you newt! You fat-assed ball of butter. eom.

[DeepModem Mom]

33. Well said, Hotler! nt