Gingrich Says Ohio Race Holds Lesson for GOP - WaPo

[rndmprsn]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/03/AR2005080301899.html

newt speaks...rethugs should heed his warning.

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Former House speaker Newt Gingrich (Ga.) warned fellow Republicans yesterday not to ignore the implications of the party's narrow victory in Tuesday's special election in Ohio, saying the public mood heading into next year's midterm elections appears to helping Democrats and hurting Republicans.

"It should serve as a wake-up call to Republicans, and I certainly take it very seriously in analyzing how the public mood evidences itself," Gingrich said. "Who is willing to show up and vote is different than who answers a public opinion poll. Clearly, there's a pretty strong signal for Republicans thinking about 2006 that they need to do some very serious planning and not just assume that everything is going to be automatically okay."...

..."We got a lot of warnings in '93 and '94 that voters were unhappy and dying to send a message," he said, recalling when Democrats lost control of the House and the Senate in 1994. "What happened in Ohio is very consistent with what we're seeing around the country."

Gingrich, the architect of the GOP takeover of Congress in 1994, cited evidence that voter unrest is fueling Democratic hopes.

"There is more energy today on the anti-Iraq, anti-gas-price, anti-changing-Social Security and I think anti-Washington ," he said. "I think the combination of those four are all redounding to weaken Republicans and help Democrats. . . . I don't think this is time to panic, but I think it's time to think. If we don't think now, then next September <2006>, people will panic when it's too late."

[davidinalameda]

1. hate to admit it but he's right

Hackett should have been destroyed yesterday but he ran the right kind of campaign

he didn't try to be Repuke lite--he gave the voters a clear alternative

[wakeme2008]

2. For once I agree with Newt

BUT Georgie is not listening... More WARS and kill SS is all he knows about.

[opusprime]

3. Good thing Gingrich has no credibilty anymore...

else someone might give a rat's ass what he has to say.

[jody]

4. Newt is right. Independent voters are rapidly becoming fed up

with Bush and his cabal. There are perhaps six or so divisive issues on which if Dems reach out to independents, we can regain control of the House. Conditions are right for Dems and 06 is ours to lose, that's why Newt is scared.

[Inland]

5. Newt. He's all for ideas. He doesn't HAVE any. But he's in favor of

them in principle

[Atman]

6. Exactly the same thing Blackwell said on Tweety's show

Same damned talking points. The Spin Fax has gone out. Watch out. I don't trust anything these guys say! Especially when they're all saying the same thing like this.

[dcfirefighter]

7. No fan of Newt

but whatever you say about him, he's no dummy.

[Bumblebee]

13. He is like Buchanan -- loathsome but not really a smooth politician so

now and then when he shoots his mouth, he actually says something shockingly honest. Plus he instigated and lived 1994 -- so he can smell it coming in reverse.

[gumby]

14. Many sociopaths

are considered absolutely brilliant. Newt's "no dummy" standard is only measured in the mass amount of destruction he causes.

I reject that measure of "intelligence." phooie :puke:

[UTUSN]

8. How'bout Could GRINCH Go **** Himself and His Desk-top Floozies?

Just a thought: Why would ANY woman/human give him a screw?

[gumby]

9. EFF Newt.

Newt is detrimental to all living things. Apparently, he was one of the 'architects' of this war.

And look at the pathetic level of his analysis. All he cares about is 'perception' and how that must be managed to maintain control. Newt doesn't give a rat's ass about the wellbeing of the planet or the people and creatures on it. All he cares about is how the masses can be manipulated for his, and his comrades, benefit.

These people are truly sick, and that makes them very dangerous.

[wli]

10. AEI member and suspected member of COG "shadow government"

AEI being the American Enterprise institute, a longtime neocon front. Also has Michael Ledeen as a prominent member and indirectly funded by Richard Mellon Scaife.

COG is the "Continuity of Government" shadow government, which surprised all the Democrats recently. It's to be used in the event of mass killings of government representatives. Doubtless, it's bound to consist entirely of neocon neonazi arch-conservatives.

It was originally set up by Eisenhower, and activated for the first time ever on 9/11. Dubya admitted to activating it on 1 March 2002.

[catabryna]

11. He IS right...

and, we DON'T want anyone in the GOP to listen, including *. For once, I can't disagree with him. I just wish he would have kept his mouth shut... that's our secret!

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

12. But the ReThugs still won......

And that's the problem......a win is a win is a win. Besides, being Ohio they probably flipped a switch to make it so anyway.