Posted on 12/16/2008 4:15:40 PM PST by lewisglad
Dear Chairman Duncan,
I was saddened to learn that at a time of national trial, when a president-elect is preparing to take office in the midst of the worst financial crisis in over seventy years, that the Republican National Committee is engaged in the sort of negative, attack politics that the voters rejected in the 2006 and 2008 election cycles.
The recent web advertisement, "Questions Remain," is a destructive distraction. Clearly, we should insist that all taped communications regarding the Senate seat should be made public. However, that should be a matter of public policy, not an excuse for political attack.
In a time when America is facing real challenges, Republicans should be working to help the incoming President succeed in meeting them, regardless of his Party.
From now until the inaugural, Republicans should be offering to help the President-elect prepare to take office.
Furthermore, once President Obama takes office, Republicans should be eager to work with him when he is right, and, when he is wrong, offer a better solution, instead of just opposing him.
This is the only way the Republican Party will become known as the "better solutions" party, not just an opposition party. And this is the only way Republicans will ever regain the trust of the voters to return to the majority.
This ad is a terrible signal to be sending about both the goals of the Republican Party in the midst of the nation's troubled economic times and about whether we have actually learned anything from the defeats of 2006 and 2008.
The RNC should pull the ad down immediately.
Sincerely,
Newt Gingrich
Chairman, American Solutions
Former Speaker of the House of Representatives
(Excerpt) Read more at marcambinder.theatlantic.com ...
Wow, one mistake and you hate the man for life.
Did you know that Reagan was once a Democrat? Does that one mistake make you now hate the man?
you still have to follow the constitution.
The washed up Gingrich refuses to fade away....
The least he could do is stfu.
And? Attacking RINOs is also attacking the RNC as well, you know.
That may be one of the most ridiculous statements I've ever seen posted on FR.
Where do I support disenfranchisement? People have every right to be morons.
And if you think Obama voters were smart, well, that tells me that you voted for the Messiah and that you think the average requirement for a driver's license needn't be applied to the highest office in the land.
You're one of those Manchurian Freepers who've come out of the woodwork in the past year. Good luck, quisling. You've chosen the dark side.
No, he’s actually asking us to keep our powder dry. Wait for an opportune time, like a major screw-up (we shouldn’t have long to wait, right?)... and then open fire.
Wasting our political ammunition on side-issues only makes us look foolish. Kinda like the boy who cried wolf. If we cry wolf too often, the public won’t pay attention when it really matters.
Seemed to work for Pelosi and the Kenyan over the past two years.
Andy, always enjoy a discussion with you. I remember the 1970s too, and I desperately hope that once again, Jimmy Carter leads to Ronald Reagan.
My fear is that, apart from leisure suits and disco, the 1970s had a different breed of Americans, a subset of which were the Reagan Democrats.
Today’s Dems are all lefties.
It used to be that whether GOP or Dem, there was love of country. Now, it is obvious that it is producers and takers, and the takers are in the majority. American exceptionality is a myth today to Democrats. They have embraced the dark side, and while nominally involved in some religions, their actions show that humanism has replaced any semblance of God in their political view.
Another Civil War is not out of the question. There is too much of the 1850s beginning to percolate. Soon, we may have to choose liberty or life.
The Dems began to show their hatred of America during Vietnam, but it really surfaced during Reagan. During Clinton and Bush, it has become an epidemic disease.
I pray not a fatal one, but Obama inspires a lawlessness that I have never seen before, even during Clinton, especially in the midst of the really incompetent, American hating Congressional leadership of Reid and Pelosi. Obama telegraphs everything, but only those perceptive enough to understand understand clearly.
Something evil this way comes.
You obviously don't, comrade.
(Looks like some of the proletariat are more red than others, right?)
Another RINO alert.
Man, no WONDER why we lost. We deserved to.
And you’re at Fort Meade? Makes me wonder about the NSA.
The Reagan Democrats are now lying in cemetaries in Queens, suburban Chicago, and Macomb County, MI.
I needed to get to the 20th post before I found someone saying what I am thinking; Newt is right. We do need to confront bad ideas by offering up conservative solutions. We won in 1994 by being the party of ideas. That is the message we need to put out. The anger and hatred is not a winning approach. I am a Happy Warrior and I love to enter the arena of debate, not stand on the sidelines and name call.
So you approve of Obama being elected. Tells me all I need to know.
Warren penned “The Hockey Song.” Hit someone! That should be what we do to the dark side.
McCain was not rejected for failing to use attack ads. McCain was rejected because he did not offer conservative solutions. His behavior during the bail-out was a perfect example. He had nothing to add to the discussion and simply signed on to the idea that we should reward the people behaving badly and punish the people who kept their agreements.
Did it work for the previous 6 years before that?
Only when Congress ignored the increase in oil/food prices, the weaking of the US dollar, and instead brought us the immigration fiasco... did we see a change.
Imagine that.
Sorry Newt... I’m now off YOUR bandwagon too! Looking for a new party!
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Stop projecting, here.
“I think the American public is smart enough to know right from wrong... and do what is in their best interest.”
That brought us Reagan and also the Republican takeover of Congress in the 1990’s. It also gave us Bush I and Bush II.
The fact that you can’t even realize that also ‘tells me all I need to know’.
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