Gingrich Says Ohio Race Holds Lesson for GOP - WaPo

[rndmprsn]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/03/AR2005080301899.html

newt speaks...rethugs should heed his warning.

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Former House speaker Newt Gingrich (Ga.) warned fellow Republicans yesterday not to ignore the implications of the party's narrow victory in Tuesday's special election in Ohio, saying the public mood heading into next year's midterm elections appears to helping Democrats and hurting Republicans.

"It should serve as a wake-up call to Republicans, and I certainly take it very seriously in analyzing how the public mood evidences itself," Gingrich said. "Who is willing to show up and vote is different than who answers a public opinion poll. Clearly, there's a pretty strong signal for Republicans thinking about 2006 that they need to do some very serious planning and not just assume that everything is going to be automatically okay."...

..."We got a lot of warnings in '93 and '94 that voters were unhappy and dying to send a message," he said, recalling when Democrats lost control of the House and the Senate in 1994. "What happened in Ohio is very consistent with what we're seeing around the country."

Gingrich, the architect of the GOP takeover of Congress in 1994, cited evidence that voter unrest is fueling Democratic hopes.

"There is more energy today on the anti-Iraq, anti-gas-price, anti-changing-Social Security and I think anti-Washington ," he said. "I think the combination of those four are all redounding to weaken Republicans and help Democrats. . . . I don't think this is time to panic, but I think it's time to think. If we don't think now, then next September <2006>, people will panic when it's too late."

[BentleyJD]

1. He should know

He became unemployed when people found out what kind of a rat bastard he really was (is).
Does anyone really care about what the jerk has to say anymore?
take care
dietrich and tony

[dave502d]

2. I was going say just what you said,thank you BentleyJD.n/t

[wakemeupwhenitsover]

10. dietrich & tony,

where have you guys been?

best

[madaboutharry]

3. They won't be able to change.

They will not rise to this challange. They can't. In order to respond to the "mood" of the public they would have to repudiate the man who "never changes his mind." Bush is the leader of the republican party. He sets their agenda. Just in the past 48 hours he reasserted his committment to "finish the job" in Iraq, to support the teaching of "intelligent design" in the classroom, and to prevent wider funding for stem cell research. The republican party sealed its fate when they put this monkey up for the presidency in the 2000 election. They have nowhere to go.

[KeepItReal]

4. Then Newt said, "Wait we make machines counting the votes...Never mind."

I jest of course...

[rndmprsn]

6. haha!

funny if it wasn't so sad too

[Poiuyt]

5. They won't change as longe as Bush is president

He's always right, never makes mistakes and never, ever backs down.

[fishnfla]

7. So are we gonna see some GOP Iraqi vets on the stump?

? :shrug: :shrug:

[rndmprsn]

8. i hope dean and the DNC are recruiting more "hacketts"

imagine dozens of progressive democrats elected to the house next year on anti-bush and anti-GOP campaigns....can you say:

IMPEACHMENT -bring 'em on!

[wli]

9. AEI member and suspected member of COG "shadow government"

COG being "Continuity of Government" that the Democrats were all shocked to hear about (of course, consisting entirely of neonazi arch-conservatives).

AEI being the American Enterprise Institute, a longtime neocon front. Michael Ledeen is a prominent member, and (of course) indirectly funded by Richard Mellon Scaife.