Novak: Gingrich Will Be The Conservative Movement’s ‘Moses’
Novak: Gingrich Will Be The Conservative Movement’s ‘Moses’
Conservatives are reeling after Tuesday’s progressive victories, desperately insisting that the country remains center-right, holding secret soul-searching meetings, and floating the idea of a revived “Project for a New American Century” to help neocons in the wilderness.
In short, conservatives are holding out for a hero. In his newest column, Robert Novak says that former House Speaker Newt Gingrich is shaping up to be the best hope:
In serious conversations among Republicans since their election debacle Tuesday, what name is mentioned most often as the Moses, or Reagan, who could lead them out of the wilderness before 40 years?
To the consternation of many Republicans, it is none other than Newt Gingrich, the former speaker of the House.
Gingrich is far from a unanimous or even a consensus choice to run for president in 2012, but there is a strong feeling in Republican ranks that he is the only leader of their party who has shown the skill and energy to attempt a comeback quickly.
Gingrich appears to be consciously positioning himself as a possible savior. He has been working to shape the next generation of GOP foot soldiers in Congress, allegedly whipping up last-minute opposition to the financial bail-out package in September. NBC’s Mike Barnicle said that conservatives told him this event was “the opening salvo of Newt Gingrich’s presidential campaign four years hence,” although Gingrich has denied any such involvement. Gingrich even appeared as a “guest star” in the GOP energy protest over the summer, which conservatives considered “America’s greatest hour.”
Gingrich may have stiff competition from Gov. Sarah Palin (R-AK), whom many conservatives are also mentioning as a possible 2012 candidate. After all, Gingrich may be likened to Reagan and Moses, but can he send “little starbursts through the [tv] screen“?
"This was a performance election, not an ideological election," Gingrich said. "Senator Obama did not run on any major left wing theme unless you count the anti-war movement. He primarily ran on 'he's going to cut taxes for the middle class, he's going to make government work better, he's going to bring us together.' The fact is that no one campaigning as a general liberal, an open liberal, has been elected since 1964."
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November 8th, 2008 at 12:58 pmOh, please, please, please run in 2012 Newtie!
May I be so bold as to suggest that you choose Failin’ Palin as your running mate? If she is still wardrobe-challenged, then tap Bimbo Bachmann. She comes complete with a string of pearls and she’s got nice shoes. Of course, she has both her feet in her mouth most of the time so she better have nice shoes.
November 8th, 2008 at 12:58 pmIn serious conversations among Republicans since their election debacle Tuesday, what name is mentioned most often as the Moses, or Reagan, who could lead them out of the wilderness before 40 years?
Amazing
The horseshit GOP mouthpieces went all ga-ga over Obama being viewed as a “Messianic” figure ; but it’s perfectly okay for them to compare a brainless lout to a Biblical icon ….
November 8th, 2008 at 1:00 pmIf the GOP wants to nominate Gingrinch, let ‘em. The GOP “man of ideas”, or so the MSM keeps telling us.
If Newt is their best shot, the GOP is majorly screwed.
November 8th, 2008 at 1:02 pmI thought Novak the Wacky retired due to a serious brain malfunction. Maybe not
November 8th, 2008 at 1:03 pmOh, I hope he is the GOP’s Moses.
Moses took forty years to stumble across the Sinai peninsula. My aged Aunt Beverly could do better.
Then Moses kakked before he reached the finish line.
November 8th, 2008 at 1:13 pmThe GOOPers are getting so desperate that their next suggested “leader” to guide them out of their self-made wilderness will be Little Tommy DeLay . . . or Georgie Allen . . . or Little Rickie Santorum. I bet there are even some right-wing nuts who are spending time and money trying to reanimate Ronnie RayGun’s corpse right now.
November 8th, 2008 at 1:15 pmBeen there, done that.
¶ AIO
November 8th, 2008 at 1:17 pmBecause every conservative can see that the prophet they need to lead them out of the wilderness is the very one who led them into the wilderness to begin with! Damn, these guys are smart!
November 8th, 2008 at 1:17 pmNewt Gingrich? REALLY?!? Like Newt Gingrich from the ’90’s Newt Gingrich? This is their new direction? Meanwhile the Republican base is moving away from Old Mavericks onto Young Pit Bulls like Palin and Gov. Jindal from Louisiana. Do I see the Republican party about to split into pieces? I can only hope.
November 8th, 2008 at 1:21 pmWouldn’t the re-emergence of Newtles make him a Neo neocon ?
¶ AIO
November 8th, 2008 at 1:21 pmHe will Newt win!
November 8th, 2008 at 1:22 pmDidn’t AMERICA repudiate the “Reagan Revolution” as the WRONG direction – and set a new direction away from the dribble down wealth concept that has bankrupted the Middle Class? And is Newtie the “new Republican Messiah” to do the job, a morally deficient fossil with ideas older than McCain???
November 8th, 2008 at 1:23 pmIt seems the ideal mix would be a Newtie-Palin ticket and securing the solid 18% of the Voters. She NOW has the wardrobe. Would definitely seal the Party’s casket . . .
Funny, Newtie Boy don’t look Jewish…
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November 8th, 2008 at 1:24 pmIt’s not THAT hard to find the perfect GOP candidate, I’m surprised they’re so bad at it.
45-55 years old
Baptist/Methodist
Southern
SMART (not Bushie… can be ignorant and misguided but not dumb as a post, that cat’s out of the bag)
Liar, Doublespeak (Compassionate torturer, Humble carpet bombers and invaders)
Sense of humor, can actually speak without reading
So basically Huckabee with the generic corporatist economics.
November 8th, 2008 at 1:25 pmWell, Gingrich does pass the “must be divorced test.”
When they learn about Palin’s earlier marrige that will thrill them too.
November 8th, 2008 at 1:26 pmMoses, Reagan and the Messiah all in one breath? God help us!;)
November 8th, 2008 at 1:27 pmNewt’s only happen when 63% of the voting public DON’T VOTE..LMAO..The voter’s are awake now, no more do over’s for the reich…Fold up your tent’s and go home neo-con’s your circus is over…Blessings
November 8th, 2008 at 1:27 pmNewt is that most dangerous of creatures–a clever sheep.
November 8th, 2008 at 1:33 pmNewt is only bringing old ideas and everyone in the World has moved on. Republicans would do well to get a young Republican to improve their Party and let the old people rest and memory the good old days. Now there are some smart young Republicans and they should take the lead.
November 8th, 2008 at 1:37 pmSpeaking of slimebags:
Check this out on Lieberman (by Steve Benen in the
Washington Monthly) on why Lieberman really wants to keep his chairmanship of the Senate’s Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs committee, even though Harry Reid’s offered him several plum posts in exchange:
This seems to be routinely overlooked, but take a moment to consider what the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs actually does: it’s the committee principally responsible for oversight of the executive branch. It’s an accountability committee, charged with investigating the conduct of the White House and the president’s administration.
As chairman of this committee for the last two years, Lieberman decided not to pursue any accusations of wrongdoing against the Bush administration. Lieberman’s House counterpart — Rep. Henry Waxman’s Oversight Committee — was a vigilant watchdog, holding hearings, issuing subpoenas, and launching multiple investigations. Lieberman preferred to let his committee do no real work at all. It was arguably the most pathetic display of this Congress.
And yet, now Lieberman acts as if keeping this chairmanship is the single most important part of his public life. Why would he be so desperate to keep the gavel of a committee he hasn’t used? I’ll let you in on a secret: he wants to start using the power of this committee against Obama.
Lieberman didn’t want to hold Bush accountable, but he seems exceedingly anxious to keep the committee that would go after Obama with a vengeance, effectively becoming a Waxman-like figure — holding hearings, issuing subpoenas, and launching investigations against the Democratic president.
Lieberman doesn’t care about “reconciliation,” he cares about going after a Democratic administration. Why else would he fight diligently to be chairman of one committee instead of another?
November 8th, 2008 at 1:38 pmIf the GOP (originally known as “The Party of the Working Man”) doesn’t build on the progressive political tradition of Lincoln, Thaddeus Stevens, Theodore Roosevelt, Robert La Follette and Fiorello La Guardia then they aren’t worth two spits. Let Conservatives establish their own national party. They’ll be happier.
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November 8th, 2008 at 1:38 pmHave they considered looking for someone other than a washed up old multiple wives white feller?…
November 8th, 2008 at 1:39 pmThese dinosaurs are never going to grasp a simple fact: continuously playing to the Far Right is destroying the Republican Party. They can’t get to the Promised Land by edging farther and farther Right; they have to recover the Republican Party of the mid 20th Century. It’s exactly the amoral ideologues like Gingrich that got them into this situation in the first place.
Even if the country really was “center right” (whatever that means), they’re missing the operative word: center. And the center does not run through the middle of Gingrich, Palin, Huckabee, Limbaugh, Hannity and the rest of the neoconservative shitbirds trying to paint a pretty picture on the election.
November 8th, 2008 at 1:41 pmIf the GOP can’t divorce themselves from claiming religious righteousness then they will never rise above their failed status. Time for a Libertarian, Green Party and Democratic ticket only.
November 8th, 2008 at 1:41 pmBoy, these people just don’t learn, do they?
The push McCain hard right and he loses. So their solution is to go even more hard right. Remember what the definition of insanity is – doing the same thing over and over expecting a different outcome.
If there are not some grownups left in the Republican party (Goldwater conservatives), they are doomed to failure for a long time to come.
I’m sure that if the far right keeps it’s grip on the party, their solution to Obama is going to be to obstruct everything that Obama tries to do. But, even if we kick LIEberman to the curb, we should still have enough Senators to get the job done and prevent filibusters.
There are a few Senators who hung on to their jobs by the skin of their pants this time and some who will be up for reelection in 2012. Add that to more moderate conservatives like Olympia Snow and Susan Collins ad I think they will have a very hard time obstructing the Democrats.
Finally, if they do try to obstruct by way of a threatened filibuster, I hope whoever is Senate Majority Leader (hopefully not Reid) hands them a phone book and tells them to “go for it”.
November 8th, 2008 at 1:43 pmI hope he will lead them off for 40 years in the Wilderness.
November 8th, 2008 at 1:46 pmMarie Says:
You are right, I had overlooked that fact. So what can be done about it?
November 8th, 2008 at 1:48 pmThis guy advocated putting poor kids in orphanages…
Oh yeah, another compassionate conservative.
The GOP hasn’t got a clue right now.
There are so many ways to improve the brand. Newt is not one of them.
November 8th, 2008 at 1:50 pm#gummitch Says:
These dinosaurs are never going to grasp a simple fact: continuously playing to the Far Right is destroying the Republican Party.
Actually gummitch, I think it is “has destroyed” not “is destroying”. They just haven’t realized it yet. I think reality, like truth, has a liberal bias.
BTW, isn’t it great that Merkely beat Gordo! I was a little worried there for a while until I saw that the remainder of votes to be counted were from two of Oregon’s most liberal counties.
November 8th, 2008 at 1:51 pmWhy would they want to do that? Washed-up multiple wives white fellers are what made the GOP what it is today.
Ya dance with what brung ya, right?
November 8th, 2008 at 1:52 pmRegarding Lieberman and the committee chair – we must write to our senators, and in particular, Harry Reid.
Lieberman should be told to leave the party. Period.
November 8th, 2008 at 1:52 pmBilbo Hussein Baggins Says:
#gummitch Says:
These dinosaurs are never going to grasp a simple fact: continuously playing to the Far Right is destroying the Republican Party.
Actually gummitch, I think it is “has destroyed” not “is destroying”. They just haven’t realized it yet. I think reality, like truth, has a liberal bias.
BTW, isn’t it great that Merkely beat Gordo! I was a little worried there for a while until I saw that the remainder of votes to be counted were from two of Oregon’s most liberal counties.
It’s certainly true that the Oregon GOP is dead and buried. That’s even been acknowledged by Republicans. The party is broke and failed to end up with a single statewide Republican office. They’ve been crushed in both houses of the legislature and now (yay!!!) both Senators are Democrats for the first time since . . . hell, I have no idea but it’s been a very long time. Maybe forever.
There were some nervous moments on Tuesday, up until I learned that there were a zillion votes yet to be counted in Lane and Multnomah counties. Ha. You’re screwed, Smith, says I. And he was.
I will say, bilbo, that you called this one a long time ago, when I absolutely did not believe that Merkley had enough name recognition to win. I was wrong and I couldn’t be happier about it.
November 8th, 2008 at 1:56 pmRWeSafer Says:
This guy advocated putting poor kids in orphanages…
You know, I’m not so sure that is a bad idea as long as the orphanage is well run. Putting kids into our foster system is often a nightmare for many of the kids and they end up coming out of the system damaged.
There’s something to be said for a large family environment. There was a institution in Sonoma County called the “Something Boy’s Home” (I forget what the “something” is) that took in children without homes. This place was like one big family and many of the boys who left later came back to work there. Every year they would have a “homecoming party” and it was amazing how many of the kids who had once lived there came back to that party.
November 8th, 2008 at 1:56 pmgummitch Says:
It’s certainly true that the Oregon GOP is dead and buried. That’s even been acknowledged by Republicans. The party is broke and failed to end up with a single statewide Republican office.
Wow, I didn’t know that. That’s great! Do you know how all of Sizemore’s initiatives fared? I certainly hope that we do something about the initiative system in Oregon. This election was a total nightmare.
November 8th, 2008 at 1:57 pmNewt actually thought that promoting Joe the (so called) Plumber was a good idea.
He also thought McCain suspending his campaign and delaying the debate was cool too.
These are just a few of the political instincts of this compulsively lying dope.
¶ AIO
November 8th, 2008 at 2:00 pmgummitch Says:
I will say, bilbo, that you called this one a long time ago, when I absolutely did not believe that Merkley had enough name recognition to win. I was wrong and I couldn’t be happier about it.
To be honest, I don’t think Merkley won because of his campaign. From sitting here in Corvallis, I thought he ran a pretty piss poor ad campaign. I didn’t hear one ad I thought was really effective except for maybe the final ad about Gordo and his illegals. I also don’t think he ever came to Corvallis to campaign – maybe he thought he did’t have to.
I think Merkely rode into the Senate on Obama’s coattails and on Gordo fatigue. I don’t care how he got in, I’m just glad he’s there.
November 8th, 2008 at 2:01 pmYou can give Newt credit for the “Republican Revolution” of 1994. But it isn’t 1994. If they want to be let back in, they’re going to have to come up with something actually new, instead of recycling the same old people who are themselves thoroughly associated with a discredited form of politics.
Newt doesn’t do ideas, he does meanness. If that’s the best they can come up with, then they’re in bigger trouble than they know.
Also, Moses may have led the Hebrews in the desert, but he didn’t make it into Israel. He died first. What they really need is a Joshua.
November 8th, 2008 at 2:03 pmGingrich Will Be The Conservative Movement’s ‘Moses’…
November 8th, 2008 at 2:05 pmand lead the Republican to wander in the desert for 40 years.
Every time I hear the name Newt I think of the “Holy Grail” movie and the witch sceen:
Knight to crowd “who do you know she’s a witch”?
Pesant “she turned me into a newt”.
The crowd all looks at him.
Peasant “I got better”.
November 8th, 2008 at 2:11 pmNice Picture.
I guess Gingrich’s answer to everything is SNAKE OIL.
November 8th, 2008 at 2:16 pmDrill Baby Drill.
In the next two years are we going to see the true patriots, the dems, the ones in control on MSM or will we be stuck with this continued circus of goppers? The people are more interested in how we can rebuild our country rather than watching this band of gangsters.
November 8th, 2008 at 2:18 pmEver wonder what the right wing bloggers are saying about Obama’s election but were too afraid to go to their websites to find out?
Fear not, intrepid lib’rals, for I took several hits for the team to give you the results.
November 8th, 2008 at 2:27 pmBilbo Hussein Baggins Says:
Wow, I didn’t know that. That’s great! Do you know how all of Sizemore’s initiatives fared? I certainly hope that we do something about the initiative system in Oregon. This election was a total nightmare.
It has been even worse in the past, primarily due to Sizemore and Mannix (esp. Sizemore). Mannix appears to want nothing more than to bankrupt the state, while Sizemore keeps launching initiatives over and over because he makes such a good living at it. It doesn’t matter whether any of them pass, because people like Loren Parks keep shoveling huge funds at Sizemore. The best thing that could happen now is that Sizemore finally gets nailed for the huge settlement from a previous civil case, and that a judge prohibit him from any political activity at all until it’s paid off.
November 8th, 2008 at 2:33 pmjurassicpork Says:
Ever wonder what the right wing bloggers are saying about Obama’s election but were too afraid to go to their websites to find out?
Nicely done. Keep up the good work.
November 8th, 2008 at 2:37 pmNeoconservatives are insane and the whole world has had its fill of them. Good riddance.
Inauguration day will be party time.
November 8th, 2008 at 2:56 pmHow many Republican leaders now are trying to say that Obama won the elections because he is a Conservative…laugh.
These are the same people who described Obama during last election campaign as a Socialist, Marxist and the most Liberal of all time….laugh.
November 8th, 2008 at 3:05 pmDidn’t ANYONE get Rush’s memo: “Elections have Consequences”???? Granted, it is an old memo, but I memorized it… Surely these Conservative hacks did too…
November 8th, 2008 at 3:08 pmGingrich??? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
November 8th, 2008 at 3:10 pmI’m sorry if I misunderstood something, but doesn’t Robert Novak have a malignant brain tumor or brain cancer? If so, why are we concerned about what he is thinking? Are you really going to tell me that these are the thoughts of a rational mind? At what point do you decide that his illness is affecting his thinking? And wouldn’t that diagnosis be about fifty years too late?
Stop paying attention to this man. His time has come and gone. How’s the guy he ran over in is car doing, BTW?
November 8th, 2008 at 3:15 pmThere’s a species of newt whose skin secretes enough toxin to kill 12 adult humans. Definitely a case of life imitating rethuglican fiction.
November 8th, 2008 at 3:20 pmA black vette being driven erratically just clipped a passerby.
November 8th, 2008 at 3:25 pmIf the country were center right, Expelled, which played on twice as many screens as Religulous would not have grossed only a little over half the box office of that movie. In other words atheism beats creationism even when creationism gets a 50% head start. Sorry Newt. Love the snake, though.
November 8th, 2008 at 3:49 pmJeez, Newt, please do NOT insult Moses like that.
November 8th, 2008 at 3:52 pmObama ran as a Republican.
McCain ran as a Democrat.
Kind of funny in retrospect.
November 8th, 2008 at 4:04 pmWell Newt and Novak, why then did the right smear Obama as the MOST liberal senator, a socialist and a communist. That sounds far to the left of ‘openly liberal’.
And if the country is still ‘center-right’ as you say, I wonder why the American public chose a far-left-liberal, socialist, communist to run the country as well as the both houses of congress.
This country is moderate and progressive–sometimes we lean left, and sometimes we lean right.
You think this country is center-right? Well, you’re center-wrong.
November 8th, 2008 at 4:39 pmGreat picture — real snake tries to strangulate plastic snake.
November 8th, 2008 at 5:12 pmarco Says:
Your capacity for self delusion is a wonder to behold
Obama ran as a Republican.
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No he didnt.
McCain ran as a Democrat.
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No he didnt.
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Maybe a moron like you finds your delusions funny. To me it is a desperate cry for help. I assume that help will involve massive doses of an anti-psychotic
November 8th, 2008 at 5:32 pmKind of funny in retrospect.
Great! The family values party running a serial adulterer! I hope his first wife–the one he dumped while she was in the hospital recovering from cancer surgery–will be around to give interviews should Newt run.
November 8th, 2008 at 5:33 pmOr perhaps Mr. No-facts meant Grandma Moses. Does anyone know if Newt paints?
Let them go there. Newt is their only option.
November 8th, 2008 at 6:15 pmCan I point out, that Moses died before leading the Isrealites out of the desert. Just a thought. I mean God did demand that Moses would see the holy land, but would never step foot in the holy land.
November 8th, 2008 at 6:43 pmThe real facts about Newtie for those with a short memory are found at http://www.realchange.org/gingrich.htm
The republican party needs an extreme makeover but they don’t have anybody to draw from. The real stalwarts of the party have passed away. The only one’s left are the charlatons like Newtie. They only reason he didn’t run this time is his corrupt past is just a closet door away.
Their problem is Reagan’s mantra “Never speak ill of your fellow republican.” In the meantime all the rogues took over and nobody spoke up. Now the party is littered with crooks and neo-con idiots. Can anyone help this party with a honored past without a solid leader? It is definately not Newtie. If they exhault him they have not learned a penny’s worth of mush and are back to square one.
November 8th, 2008 at 7:49 pmKind of makes one wish that python had done us all a favor when it was around Gingrich’s neck. *sigh*
November 8th, 2008 at 9:14 pmNewt was another of the free-market cheerleaders and I doubt he has any new ideas just remakes of the old ones.
November 8th, 2008 at 9:27 pmThe REPUBLICANS, not the Conservatives believe that the U.S. government can never work, as the people IN government are only out to keep themselves in power. That is why they wish to shrink gov till it fits in a bathtub and then drown. Listen to that. They wish to kill the U.S. Government. And no I do NOT take it as a euphemism. After watching Cheney/Bush do exactly that for these last 8 years, we can now, without a shadow of a doubt say that REPUBLICANS are traitors. PERIOD. Conservatives need to feel threatened by this, and they should compelled to cleave from this Religous Right run retarded party. Let the Religicon go off and commune in Alaska with Palin, as she is NO conservative. A windfall profits tax on oil and direct payments to citizens, yeah real conserative. And the rest of the country should ONLY discuss and ebate with the Conservatives that are left. Newt is a Religicon.
November 8th, 2008 at 9:48 pmANd why does the oil in Alasks only “belong” to the citiznes of Alaska. Is that ANYWHERE else in our country. Does the oil in Texas only belong to Texas? Why have we ALL not shared in those direct payments from Palin????
Isn’t it Satan who plays with snakes?
November 8th, 2008 at 9:48 pmConstitution Camp for the lot of ‘em. Until they get it.
November 9th, 2008 at 8:03 amMaybe by 2012 Newt will have figured out who destroyed the sanctity of his marriages.
November 9th, 2008 at 8:55 amAnd btw, what’s Newtie doing wrapping himself around that fat old white guy in the photo?
November 9th, 2008 at 9:12 amNovak: Gingrich Will Be The Conservative Movement’s ‘Moses’
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I wholeheartedly agree with this sentiment. And, by my calculations, they’ve still got another 25 years to go of wandering aimlessly in the desert. Chop chop, Newt!
November 9th, 2008 at 9:36 amWasn’t it primarily Gringrich who lead them into the wilderness in the first place? And they can claim the country is any cardinal direction they want, even up-side-down and inside-out, but that doesn’t change the fact that people are concerned about things Republicans just don’t care about.
November 9th, 2008 at 9:58 amThe Reich is running scared……….scared that we are left of center, once again we are opposite of what the Reich thinks and that is a good thing.The divsion in this country is over and we all need to work togther and the consrvatives know it but won`t say it and that is the sad part of this whole thing.
November 9th, 2008 at 11:01 amWhat crap! Universal health care isn’t “liberal”? Reagan thought Medicare/Medicaid was a “socialistic” plot to destroy “democracy as we know it.” Tuition remission in exchange for public service isn’t liberal? Kennedy gave Peace Corps & Vista volunteers $2,000 a year for their public service, not a living wage even then. And, post-Bush/McCain, even progressive taxation (i.e., the rich pay more) is “liberal.” Andrew Sullivan — not exactly a great mind, in my estimation — thinks it’s wrong, wrong, wrong. Financial backing for green industry isn’t liberal? Conservatives are still denying global warming.
Sorry, Newt, Peggy & little Billy Kristol. Except for your friends in Appalachia, this country is turning blue. I think ThinkProgress has already published the county-by-county map that proves that, but in case I’m wrong, it appears under Election Results! on RealityChex.com — and the map on the way young people voted on the front page of RealityChex.com should be a real eye-opener for the wingers — not that they have any intention of opening their eyes and seeing the light.
November 9th, 2008 at 11:57 amDo you think they just need to play down the loss or is it just their way of playing down Obama’s skin color? I wonder because what does Gingrich mean ‘this was not an ideological victory?’ We are in an ideological battle here in America with Gingrich, Palin and even Limbaugh representing the ideology that will see and end to the dream and true ideology of America. Their greatest enemy is the American citizen informed and educated and awake. As long as they maintain their media lead they can attempt to bamboozle Americans. This war is not over folks.
November 9th, 2008 at 6:16 pm…and furthermore…someone above reminded me, as Rachel Maddow and Thomas Frank have pointed out, should ideologues who do not believe in government be allowed to run governmnent? Obviously we can’t legislate this away but again, as Americans become more informed Gingrich and friends will simply not have a place at the table.
November 9th, 2008 at 6:19 pmBecause standing up to Reality and denying it has been working SO WELL for the Republicans….
As long as they keep denying the truth to themselves and keep deceiving themselves about what THEY think the citizens of this country want, the rest of us will continue to get the job done without them.
November 10th, 2008 at 7:52 am.
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Well, he’s old enough to be their “Moses.”
November 10th, 2008 at 9:00 am