#gingrich

“A mere 40 years ago, beach volleyball was just beginning. No bureaucrat would have invented it, and that’s what freedom is all about.” -Newt Gingrich at the 1996 Republican National Convention.(Citation.)

“females have biological problems staying in a ditch for 30 days because they get infections, and they don’t have upper body strength.” -Newt Gingrich teaching a history class at Reinhardt College in Georgia in 1995. (Citation.)

“People like me are what stand between us and Auschwitz. I see evil around me every day.” -Newt Gingrich in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, January 1994.

“This [the Obama administration] is an administration which, as long as you’re America’s enemy, you’re safe. You know, the only people you’ve got to worry about is if you’re an American ally.” -Newt Gingrich at the Arizona Republican debate, February 22, 2012.

“I have two grandchildren — Maggie is 11, Robert is 9. I am convinced that if we do not decisively win the struggle over the nature of America, by the time they’re my age they will be in a secular atheist country, potentially one dominated by radical Islamists and with no understanding of what it once meant to be an American.” -Newt Gingrich in San Antonio, March 2011.

“Politics has become a really nasty, vicious, negative business and I think it’s disgusting and I think it’s dishonest.“ -Newt Gingrich in an interview with ABC News in Iowa, December 30, 2011.

"Often we search hard for words to define our opponents. Sometimes we are hesitant to use contrast. Remember that creating a difference helps you. These are powerful words that can create a clear and easily understood contrast. Apply these to the opponent, their record, proposals and their party: 

abuse of power

anti- (issue): flag, family, child, jobs

betray

bizarre

bosses

bureaucracy

cheat

coercion

"compassion” is not enough

collapse(ing)

consequences

corrupt

corruption

criminal rights

crisis

cynicism

decay

deeper

destroy

destructive

devour

disgrace

endanger

excuses

failure (fail)

greed

hypocrisy

ideological

impose

incompetent

insecure

insensitive

intolerant

liberal

lie

limit(s)

machine

mandate(s)

obsolete

pathetic

patronage

permissive attitude

pessimistic

punish (poor …)

radical

red tape

self-serving

selfish

sensationalists

shallow

shame

sick

spend(ing)

stagnation

status quo

steal

taxes

they/them

threaten

traitors

unionized

urgent (cy)

waste

welfare"

-From Newt Gingrich’s 1990 GOPAC pamphlet, Language: A Key Mechanism of Control.

“One of the key issues is the growing anti-religious bigotry of our elites.” -Newt Gingrich in his victory speech in South Carolina, January 21, 2012. (Video.)

“There should be no mosque near Ground Zero in New York so long as there are no churches or synagogues in Saudi Arabia…Those Islamists and their apologists who argue for ‘religious toleration’ are arrogantly dishonest…America is experiencing an Islamist cultural-political offensive designed to undermine and destroy our civilization. Sadly, too many of our elites are the willing apologists for those who would destroy them if they could.” -Newt Gingrich’s Statement on the Proposed “Cordoba House” Mosque Near Ground Zero on Newt.org, July 2010.

“I am appalled that you would begin a presidential debate on a topic like that [Newt Gingrich’s sex scandal involving his second wife]…to make it two days before the primary a significant question in a presidential campaign is as close to despicable as anything I can imagine.” -Newt Gingrich at the CNN Republican primary debate in South Carolina, January 19, 2012. (Video.)

“The GOP’S multimillion dollar ad campaign invoking President Clinton’s relationship with Monica S. Lewinsky was devised by House Speaker Newt Gingrich…reviving the presidential sex scandal just one week before Election Day.”-The Washington Post, October 30, 1998.

It’s a great week to be in Charleston!

With today’s GOP primary in SC, the past two weeks have been filled with political candidates and news cameras.  Last Saturday, I saw Mitt Romney walking down Market Street.  On Sunday night, Newt Gingrich had drinks at Joe Pasta.  On Thursday, I stood in the front row at a rally for Ron Paul.  And then yesterday, as the culmination of all the political events of the week, Stephen Colbert drew out over 3,000 students for his “Rock Me Like A Herman Cain” rally in the College of Charleston Cistern.  The rally was a truly awesome experience.  You gotta love Charleston.

-T