More on Gingrich

In an earlier post, I mentioned a series of videos posted on this site, which is referred to as Victory of Death.


I wanted to revisit that series because of something that Gingrich said about Bush's 2004 campaign against Kerry.  Here's a screen shot of the passage:

Gingrich says that Bush in 2004 wanted to run a campaign based upon personalities, as opposed to ideas.

He said that Bush was uncomfortable with ideas.  Fast forward to 2011, and you get Romney going after Newt as being zany and now going after him for his weeping incident.   Another campaign about personality?

Romney refuses to debate with Gingrich too.  Why?  Is he afraid or uncomfortable with ideas?

That leads to an executive who won't veto bills.  He goes on to say that this is absolutely necessary because Congress cannot discipline itself.  If an executive doesn't have the broad authority to sustain his vetoes, you'll end up with a lot of unwise spending.

The election of 2006 was a message.  How did the Republicans respond?  Was succeeding until the market collapse in 2008.  Gingrich says that you can always win on issues-- but not with personalities.

Gingrich has a game plan.  Will the Republicans buy into it?  Why not?  Hasn't it worked before?