“Incorrect. Gingrich stated the principles well enough in 1994 in the “Contract with America”. We lack enough people who have the ability that Gingrich had to lay out the overall case and defend it ruthlessly from attacks from the Left.”
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Unfortunately, you are not correct enough to refute my argument, which stands.
The weakness here is that Gingrich folded under pressure like a cheap lawn chair. His Contract With America was indeed brilliant and badly needed. But how much of it came to fruition? Virtually none of it. Why? Because Gingrich caved to Clinton’s dirty politics.
Leaving us where? Now anytime someone tries to resurrect any of the points of the Contract, it is met with a smug “Oh, we tried that already and it failed!”. It failed because Gingrich failed.
So again, I stand correct, not corrected.
Just about everything in the Contract with America was rammed through the House by Gingrich, and Dole didn't get in Gingrich's way. The items became law, and Gingrich accomplished a great deal. Gingrich's reforms in the Contract were so popular that when Clinton ran for re-election in '96, he decided that Gingrich's reforms were the best ideas that he, Bill Clinton, had ever come up with.
Nor did Gingrich "fold under pressure like a cheap lawn chair". Clinton succeeded in maneuvering Gingrich between the American people and their government checks during the government shutdown in early '96. That was the moment that the so-called "Gingrich Revolution" ended after a single year of accomplishment. After that event, Clinton cracked the whip over the Republicans and turned them into good, reliable purveyors of pork, something the voters tired of by 2006. But for that one glorious year, Gingrich laid out the case and got it done.
He deserves more respect than you're giving him.