The most important issue facing the nation is keeping the radical Marxists ala Hussein Obama out of power.
If focussing a campaign on trivial issues that the Marxists are on the unpopular side of - the pledge, voter ID, gay marriage, etc - will help keep them out of power then yes, that is the most important thing we have going.
An intellectual campaign on major, shades of grey issues that really matter is going to lose to mob rule chanting soundbites they can understand every time. The Dems know it. Karl Rove knows it. Newt knows it.
That's the game, it's disgusting, but if we don't play we've already lost.
The problem is people aren't buying it. Newt wrote that for the 2006 elections... so, how did that play out? The Democrats won a majority of Governorships the Senate, gained a majority in the House, and, "for the first time in the history of the United States, no Republican captured any House, Senate, or Gubernatorial seat previously held by a Democrat."
See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_general_elections%2C_2006
An intellectual campaign on major, shades of grey issues that really matter is going to lose to mob rule chanting soundbites they can understand every time. The Dems know it. Karl Rove knows it. Newt knows it.
I agree that that is how the game has been played, but Karl Rove is no longer in a position of power, and neither is Newt. Wonder why?
Right now, if my own friends, family, and neighbors are any indication, people are very concerned about gas and grocery prices, plus the cost of medical care. I have yet to hear a single person make a single comment about whether or not the Pledge needs to include "Under God". Not a single one.
But if I had a nickel for every time I've heard that eggs are too expensive, I've have enough money to... well, buy a dozen eggs, which have almost doubled in price in the last year or so.
That's the game, it's disgusting, but if we don't play we've already lost.
Then perhaps we've already lost.
We need to win more than only the presidency to put forth a conservative agenda in the United States. I think that anyone who puts forth patriotic platitudes and offers nothing of value is going to find themselves sidelined in 2008.
Newt was right about one thing, though. He wrote, "The Republican loss in the special election for Louisiana's Sixth Congressional District last Saturday should be a sharp wake up call for Republicans: Either Congressional Republicans are going to chart a bold course of real change or they are going to suffer decisive losses this November."
"http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=26376#continueA
I just think he is misreading what needs to be done, easy to do if you are disconnected from the electorate.