Certainly the economic angle is the one to play for 2010. But will we have candidates, and party, who can articulate the ideas for victory the way Newt did in 1994?
Newt and the contract with America was about reform. Thats what we need again. Reform. Never has there been a chance for a party to establish itself as the reform party in the face of Obama’s egregious power grabs and trough filling. People forget that Clinton tried to hit the socialist ground running and nobody believed 2 short years later that Newt would help hand the republicans a massive victory. But it happened.