Newt Gingrich and Allan Crow on the implications of Louisiana

[struggle4progress]

Wednesday, May 7, 2008, 09:54 AM

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

On Saturday, Don Cazayoux became Louisiana’s newest Democratic congressman, wresting a seat that had been in Republican hands for 33 years ...

... the first attack ad in the race .... launched close to April 15 ... tied Jenkins’ failure to pay his taxes to his support for “a national sales tax” of 15 percent “on just about everything” ...

“We found that it worked pretty well, particularly in the context of Woody not paying his taxes,” Crow said.

http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/shared-blogs/ajc/politicalinsider/entries/2008/05/07/newt_gingrich_and_allan_crow_o.html

[Juche]

1. Ha fucking Ha

What is also great is that Newt has no intention of actually fixing the cancer at the root of the contemporary GOP. He has no desire to fix the fact that the GOP is strongly associated with vote rigging and fraud, lying about war, torture, criminal behavior, anti-democratic abuses, religious extremists, chickenhawk warmongerers, anti-worker, pro-corporate, bigoted attitudes. He probably just wants to put a new coat of paint on the same old GOP. And I think that's great. It beats fundamentally changing the GOP into a party that has a chance in national elections.

If he really wanted to improve the GOP's image so that people wanted to vote republican again he'd encourage the GOP to take the lead in fighting against vote fraud, the middle class economic squeeze and corruption. But we all know that won't happen.

Let the GOP destroy itself. They have alienated almost everyone. Rather than change the party to stop pissing these groups off Newt is probably going to recommend the GOP pretend it is something its not, which will be transparent and probably make the disgust worse. Good.