Newt goes after the RNC for trying to link Obama and Blago

[Thrill]

WTF?

I was saddened to learn that at a time of national trial, when a president-elect is preparing to take office in the midst of the worst financial crisis in over seventy years, that the Republican National Committee is engaged in the sort of negative, attack politics that the voters rejected in the 2006 and 2008 election cycles.

The recent web advertisement, “Questions Remain,” is a destructive distraction. Clearly, we should insist that all taped communications regarding the Senate seat should be made public. However, that should be a matter of public policy, not an excuse for political attack.

In a time when America is facing real challenges, Republicans should be working to help the incoming President succeed in meeting them, regardless of his Party.

From now until the inaugural, Republicans should be offering to help the President-elect prepare to take office.

Furthermore, once President Obama takes office, Republicans should be eager to work with him when he is right, and, when he is wrong, offer a better solution, instead of just opposing him.

This is the only way the Republican Party will become known as the “better solutions” party, not just an opposition party. And this is the only way Republicans will ever regain the trust of the voters to return to the majority.

This ad is a terrible signal to be sending about both the goals of the Republican Party in the midst of the nation’s troubled economic times and about whether we have actually learned anything from the defeats of 2006 and 2008.

The RNC should pull the ad down immediately.

http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/1208/Newt_denounces_Blago_attacks.html?showall

[firedupdem]

1. wow...will they listen? n/t

[jenmito]

2. Wow-at least ONE Repub. has realized the guilt-by-association thing doesn't work-

and BACKFIRED! McCain seems to have realized it, too, for saying the RNC should back off the "connection" angle, too.

[monmouth]

3. I think Newt and McCain went out drinking together and exchanged

a few thoughts....LOL.

[dbonds]

4. Hell has frozen over. Didn't know Newt had that in him.

Maybe it is from a self preservation motive and not altruistic, but still the right thing to do.

[MiniMe]

5. As much as I hate Newt, good for him on this issue

McCain seems to be taking the same track here.

[high density]

6. Hmm, first McCain, now Gingrich trying to disconnect themselves from the Limbaugh wing of the GOP

I think the auto bailout has shown that the Repukes have no strategy other than to be an opposition party. These two has-beens are not going to change that.

[rvablue]

13. Powell is on that list, too. n/t

[Mike Daniels]

7. Isn't Newt thinking of running in 2012?

I figure this is part of a plan to make him look reformed and appear as a "work together" type of guy vs. the old bomb thrower that he was.

[janx]

9. YES. n/t

[Egnever]

8. Newt is a smart guy

Hes also a dick. But hes a smart dick and he is spot on on this one. I also think he is spot on on education. I was listening to him blather on one day when he started talking about education and a system that doesnt have "grades" per say but rather levels of achievement. Once you reach a certain level of proficiency you move on to the next thing and not until. It was much more involved than that but it was brilliant IMHO.

The truth is some people were born to be mechanics and some nuclear physicists. There is honor in both but trying to make all the pegs the same is not working.

[skeewee08]

10. So this is why Oklahoma got Freezing Rain:-)

Get it when "hell freezes over" Oklahoma being the only State where Obama did not win a County to me is hell! And I do live in Oklahoma.

[Rowdyboy]

11. Thank God the Republicans aren't listening to Newt....they're too busy reloading ammunition

for their circular firing squad. Just keep on with the cheap, guilt by association trash ads while the economy falls apart...voters are SURE to be impressed....

[Jennicut]

12. Fig Newton is setting up a run for 2012, this is only to make himself look better then

the other schleps they got in the Rethug party.

[zulchzulu]

14. It's the Ol' Good Cop Bad Cop Routine...

Newt is in on this crap... distract... divide and conquer... plus (you heard it hear) he wants to BE THE NOMINEE in 2012...