Gingrich Joins Cantor’s Effort To Remake GOP
Newt Gingrich has joined Eric Cantor’s new effort to remake the GOP for the future, a Cantor spokesperson confirms.
“Speaker Gingrich will be joining the National Council for a New America as one of the members of our national panel of experts,” Cantor spokesperson Joe Pounder tells me, confirming a Chris Cillizza item based on anonymous sources.
“It is generally recognized that Speaker Gingrich is a man who’s putting forth bold ideas in the party,” Pounder continues. “It’s only natural that he would join an organization that seeks to apply conservative principles to everyday challenges. That’s what Speaker Gingrich has been doing for the past couple of years.”
Cantor’s group has taken some hits from Mike Huckabee and other conservatives who argue that the group has de-emphasized social issues in an effort to rebrand the GOP at the expense of social conservatives. Rush Limbaugh slammed the group as a “scam.”
But a source familiar with Gingrich’s move denied that he had been enlisted to shore up the group’s standing on the right. “We always wanted Speaker Gingrich to be involved in one way or another,” the source says.
Cantor is being held up by pundits as a new Gingrich, and the former House Speaker, famously, tried something similar to what Cantor is now doing, launching his “Contract with America” back in the early 1990s. Now Gingrich is a public face of Cantor’s new effort.
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I kinda saw (hallucinated? nightmared?) this coming. Now it’s gonna be the National Council for a Newt America.
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Great seein’ ya on Rachel last night, Greg. Your second appearance, if I’m not mistaken. Points well made and good voice tone. Don’t worry about the nerves; they’ll take care of themselves. Keep up the good digging and reporting, and pretty soon you’ll find being on her show a lot of fun! Congratulations!
Gotta love it. Prediction, very shortly the DNC will put out yet another web video with their new them “Check out the New GOP same as the old GOP”. Yet another nail in the coffin.
Dang. Had family and missed the greg-sighting.
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Re Newt, I understand as well that Chrysler is pinning its future hopes on a high profile rollout of the 1953 DeSoto.
An “ideas man”! Gad. Here’s a bit from Didion’s “Political Fictions” (chapter, Newt Gingrich, Superstar p 171)
“What has lent Mr. Gingrich’s written and spoken work (or as he calls it, his “teaching”) the casual semblance of being based on some plain-spoken substance, some rough-hewn horse sense, is that most of what he says reaches us in outline form, with topic points capitalized … and systematically if inappositely numbered. There were [ in "Renew America"] “Seven key aspects” and “Nine vision-level principles” of “Personal Strength,” Pillar Two of American Civilization. There were “Five core principles” of “Quality as Defined by Deming” (Pillar Five): there were “Three Big Concepts” of “Entrepreneurial Free Enterprise,” Pillar Three. There were also, still underr Pillar Three, “Five Enemies of Entrepreneurial Free Enterprise” (”Bureaucracy,” “Credentilialing”, “Taxation,” “Litigation,” and “Regulation”), which might have seemed to replicate on another and would in any case have been pretty much identical to Pillar Four’s “Seven welfare state cripplers of progress” had the latter not folded in “Centralization,” “Anti-progress Cultural Attitude,” and “Ignorance”.
Man. Hard to get this post up with the posting too fast flag. Trying for the fourth time. Speaking of incorrigible Republicans, Tim Pawlenty intends to veto the budget the MN legislature passed with large majorities before adjourning (among other things, he’s opposed to tax increases on the wealthy and on liquor). The House vote was 82-47 (90 needed for override), the Senate 35-1. His plan is to balance the budget through “unallotment” or unilateral cuts. I hope that when Bernie gets back from working on his clematis trellis, he reconsiders his view of him as a more moderate voice for the GOP. My only (slim) hope in this is that Pawlenty is working on his Republican conservative bona fides in anticipation of signing an election certificate for Al Franken. Actually, I see Bernie is back. A lot can happen during post re-writing.
Wow. What ever happened to Jindal? I thought he was the next great hope. He really disappeared after his creepy rebuttal to Obama.
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So, now these guys are going to go across the country and claim they will apply conservative solutions to today’s health care problems which boils down to doing absolutely nothing.
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You can put lipstick on a pig…..
Steele is now threatening to quit.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/05/19/steele-threatens-quit-rnc-undermines-funding-authority/
Since when is Gingrich putting forth bold new ideas? Did no one watch his testimony before (whatever) House committee on global warming? Same old talking points.
Thanks for the link. Looks to be another entertaining episode in the ongoing GOOPer soap opera.
Well, they’ve been burned before. I forget the name of that RNC embezzler, the one who forged those audit certifications…
This would be like someone repackaging the A-Team and trying to sell it as a movie. Oh, wait…
Oh yes, the Republicans new plan…
1 step forward, 14 steps backwards.
It’s 1994 all over again!
Newt the new face? As Seth & Amy would say “REALLY”??? A man who left his wife while she was under-going Cancer treatments for a “newer” model? This is the Family Values/anti-gay guy?? LOL
Seems to make sense, especially if the GOP feels that “REbranding” means going back to something old. The former Party of Lincoln has become the Party of Limbaugh, Palin, Fox News and Cheney. For this group, nothing says “moving forward” than looking back. I may not agree w/ Cantor a lot, but lets not pull a retread like Newt into this.
“It is generally recognized that Speaker Gingrich is a man who’s putting forth bold ideas in the party,” ..huh??…has he been speaking in some other galaxy?
I don’t hear anything new from Newt Gingrich than when he ran the party back in the 90s. He is divisive (as are all of the Repubs) – they can do nothing but fault-find and criticize even as their own party has mucked up pretty much everything and has looked ridiculous over the last several months as well. They don’t know how to lead in any meaningful or contructive manner. Look at Steele (Mr. Hip-Hop), Limbaugh (just plain disgusting), Boehner is divisive, the party of NO. They have the whole GOP again in lock-step against the President and the Dems just like they did when they were in the majority. Any new fresh voices in their party will just get stomped down if they don’t follow the party-line, even if it’s hurting the country. Newt Gingrich is same old, same old…****. Next thing they’ll be bringing back Mr. Corruption himself-Tom Delay.
No. The Michelle Bachmann Nebula is actually in our own galaxy. No signs of intelligent life, though.
Newt Gingrich is the New Face of anything the way that John McCain and Jeb Bush are the New Faces of anything.
What a joke. I am not returning to the r party until they get rid of Herr Limbaugh and Darth Cheney, along with Palin, Jingles Jindahl and the rest of the far right clowns.
I think they need to dig up Reagan’s corpse and run him in 2012.
ABC – still busyish today but did feel your little jab on Pawlenty. I’m now searching through online recipes to find optimal spicing for crow.
Please, if this isn’t a “flashback” like being on bad drugs, I don’t know what is…what are the Pubies thinking…oh yeah, they don’t, they just come from the gut and knee jerk their way through life. We have had 12 years of Republicans running this country and the Congress..if they couldn’t fix things in 12, then shut up about Obama not being able to fix “their mess” in 120 days. They are the party of NO, Torture, and Teabaggers…they need to find their soul and Newt isn’t leading anywhere but down another hole.
Newt is effective at labeling the other side and defining issues. However, sometimes he gets it grossly and wrong and is unwilling to admit it. For instance, he and Clinton gave away the store to China in the 1990s…MFN status…a conga line paying homage to the leadership in Beijing w/ visits there…and now look what China is doing w/ that $$. They pose an increased military threat to US interests around the globe.