January 25th, 2008 at 11:27 pm
On Townhall.com, Michael Reagan, the saner son of President Reagan and a pretty good radio talk show host, dreams about Newt Gingrich as a dark horse candidate:
Why Newt? Ask yourself why Ronald Reagan won. He won because he was able to excite a group of people in America that the liberal wing of the Republican party has never excited — the grass roots.
Newt Gingrich is the last Republican to have done that — to reach out to the grass roots, to all those conservative Republicans and Reagan Democrats. Remember, it was Newt who engineered the miraculous Republican take-over of Congress in 1994 — something that was deemed impossible two years after Bill Clinton won the White House.
Small problem: Gingrich has declared that the Era of Reagan is dead. The next day, Rush Limbaugh hosted Gingrich to explain that comment, and Gingrich was still on the government-as-solution bandwagon.
The Contract with America was awesome, making government more accountable to the people, but Newt’s insistence on government solutions doesn’t square with the trust in the individual man that Michael Reagan’s dad espoused. That’s why I’m surprised Michael Reagan was thinking favorably of a Gingrich dark horse nomination.
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January 26th, 2008 at 1:18 pm
NAFTA Newt can move to Mexico.
January 26th, 2008 at 4:52 pm
Uh, grass roots? What is Ron Paul igniting if not grass roots? Maybe not of the Republican party as it exists today, but he’s definitely curing alot of people’s apathy.
And the Contract With America was a failure. Largely not implemented, and completely unsuccessful. Accountability? Where was/is that in government???
Reagan was decent, but he still violated the Constitution regularly.