"Wonkbook: Newt Gingrich explains how the GOP’s Obamacare tactics backfired"

[applegrove]

Wonkbook: Newt Gingrich explains how the GOP’s Obamacare tactics backfired

By Ezra Klein and Evan Soltas at the Washington Post

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/08/20/wonkbook-newt-gingrich-explains-how-the-gops-obamacare-tactics-backfired/?tid=rssfeed

"SNIP........................

We are caught up right now in a culture — and you see it every single day — where as long as we are negative and as long as we are vicious and as long as we can tear down our opponent, we don’t have to learn anything,” Gingrich said at the RNC.

......................SNIP"

[applegrove]

1. Food fight amongst the GOP

[Aerows]

2. Next up: Newt Gingrich

inadvertently describes how Newt Gingrich's tactics failed.

[applegrove]

3. No doubt he's trying to increase interest in Crossfire which he will be on.

[Aerows]

4. He's the perfect example of pointing a finger

and four others are pointing right back at him.

[Skidmore]

5. That's rich since Gingrich

wrote the lexicon of toxic speak along with Frank Luntz. Here's an item from early 1995.

http://fair.org/extra-online-articles/language-a-key-mechanism-of-control/

[Aerows]

7. Newt Gingrich: "they really shouldn't have done this

since I did it myself several times and it didn't work. Let me tell you why it didn't work when they did it. (not that I'm an expert on things that don't work, other than when somebody else does them)"

[vi5]

6. When they lose big, it will have backfired.

Until then, nothing has actually backfired in any notable way.

[Aerows]

8. True

but this is the deepest pile of dogshit you can step in when you screw up like Gingrich. It's like him conducting a class on "How to have a successful marriage" or "Fidelity through hardship: How I saved the Republic through sleeping with other women than my wife".