Look, last week Gingrich told Iowans where he was stumping that one of his first acts a President would be to “reach out to Democrats.”
You know who are the Democrats?
The Democrats INCLUDE THE MSM.
We know that. Newt knows that. Newt knows that better than we know that.
Anyone who thinks a President Gingrich is going to whup up on reporterettes the way he has on debate moderators needs to rethink the meaning of “reach out to Democrats.”
This is not a politically benign phrase with Newt.
Dude, you really need to lighten up. What do you really think will happen if the Republican president doesn’t reach out to the Dem.’s? It’s highly unlikely that we will have a filibuster proof majority. We’ll need to bring some of the Dem.’s over to our side to get anything done. It would be a PR nightmare to try & jam things down their throats like the Dem.’s did to us.
As well, do you think maybe, just maybe, Newt needs to attract the attention of the indy’s to get their support in the general. Do you think he’ll get their vote by basically saying damn the Dem.’s? C’mon dude.
It sounds like you were a big fan of Reagan. Did Reagan reach out to the Dem.’s? Of course he did. It’s part of our process. Or at least it’s supposed to be. “Reach out” doesn’t mean capitulate. It can mean what Reagan did. Maybe that’s what Newt has in mind.
Do you KNOW otherwise?
Newt’s time will pass, I think. He suddenly seemed like Mr. Right, or at least Mr. Possible after Cain faded, but he’s just not conservative enough.
I did go to the Palin criticism and even though it was from last May, it was valid. Why criticize Ryan’s plan as social engineering? It didn’t seem so to me.