Posted on 08/15/2013 3:28:11 AM PDT by Olog-hai
Former U.S. House speaker Newt Gingrich told a meeting of the Republican National Committee that his party needs to move beyond its image of steadfast opposition to President Barack Obama and convince voters its goal is to improve the country.
We have to get beyond being anti-Obama and we have to convince people you can have hope in America, Gingrich said on Wednesday. What we have to do, in a sense, is be a party of optimism and a party of hope and show actual cases of how it can work.
Speaking at a Boston hotel adjacent to where Republican presidential contender Mitt Romney delivered his 2012 concession speech after failing to unseat Obama, Gingrich said the party needed to be more alert to ways Americans were changing, particularly in their use of technology. What happened last year? Why were so many of us wrong? Gingrich asked the group.
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This time, I think he is right. As far as last year, running a leftist cost us the election.
Running a leftist doesn’t translate into opposing Obama, though.
Gingrich wants to reach around the aisle? I wish I could say I were surprised.
How so? They tried that already and Obama got stronger.
The 2010 “shellacking” was all about opposition to Obama and would not have happened without the strength thereof.
Sounds kinda Reaganish to me.
He’s not “reaching around the aisle.” He’s saying we have to be like Reagan and offer a whole different vision.
Remember how Romney kept blithering that he and “the President” essentially agreed on everything?
We certainly don’t need that. Obama isn’t running again, so personal opposition isn’t going to matter anyway.
Before you can move beyond opposition to Obama, you have to oppose Obama. The GOP has not opposed Obama. What planet are these people from?
The GOP opposition to President Obama is non-existent. So, Newt wants to rally voters with a hope & change meme. These Beltway bozos are completely deluded. As the exsanguination continues unimpeded- we are treated to a penny theater farce by a celebrated clown conservative.
I agree with that statement. The problem is the image the GOP has cultivated.
Spineless eunichs who express their objections with Obama & his policies, but that is as far as it goes. They admit defeat before the battle has begun.
Since then we have learned, especially from Mark Levin, that our difficulties are not limited to a biased media but extend throughout the very structure of the Republican establishment.
As one who supported Gingrich very early on, I applaud his observations that Republicans must make an affirmative case which extends beyond mere opposition to Obama if they are to prevail in the next election. However, this is not news, this is but conventional wisdom and I would've expected more from Gingrich by way of offering solutions. He probably did in his speech because that would be in keeping with his custom and it probably was not reported in this article. I would not be surprised that the media does not believe itself to be in the business of offering its bandwidth for solutions about how to defeat Democrats.
In any event, we now must think about Mark Levin's solution which is inchoate in the public mind so far but at first review must at least be saluted for its originality. By going to the states to fashion constitutional amendments to restore the original intent of the Constitution, he offers an end run around the Republican establishment as well as Washington Democrats. That is not to say that it will succeed, merely that it is innovative and brilliant.
Mark Levin himself is brilliant but one man alone cannot carry this burden. He will find aligned against him all the powerful elements of the media, the Democrats, and the Republican establishment. He needs articulate and enthusiastic allies like Gingrich could be.
We shall see.
He is the face and the leader of all of that and we oppose his namesake 0bamacare.
p.s. It worked effectively for the RATS in 2008 to run against the previous POTUS.
When “we” decide whom to cultivate a representative, whom should we look to, someone who says a lot and does nothing or someone whose values, verbiage, and deeds agree with “ours”. Frankly I don’t want to hear loafty ideas, I want to know how this decline in our national economic and spiritual values is going to stop...it has to be stopped before we can turn it about. In fact, decline may be too soft a term, it has been a virtual Stuka in the past 5 years. To me, the way you stop it is to stop the madman leading this dive because by 2016 we will have crashed and no amount of loafty ideals is going to change it in the next campaign.
Has Newt apologized for NAFTA, the WTO, pushing through “most favored nation” status for China? Has he admitted yet that the deficit increased every year he was Speaker? Still a huge fan of Woodrow Wilson and FDR? Has he explained why Romney money paid off his campaign debt?
Didnt think so.
Gingrich is a hack who needs to go away and leave us alone
No one is opposed to obama because he has a tan
the resistance comes from recognition of his disregard for us and our country
What’s the point when the media is only going to put a negative slant on their ideas.
Walk/chew gum
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