Newt today, told the Republicans to 'get a grip on Reality.'
To the moon Newt, to the moon.
Newt Gingrich says that Republicans clearly have to change and 'come to grips with reality' (Video)
by James Nye, dailymail.co.uk -- 27 January 2013
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said today on 'Face the Nation' [...]
'When I said as a candidate we're not going to deport a grandmother if she's been here 25 years, we had a nominee who said yes, we would, that she would self-deport,' Gingrich said.
'I think at that point we lost Asians, we lost Latinos. You can't lose Asians, Latinos, African Americans and young people, and think you're going to be competitive.
'I think we have to come to grips with the reality.'
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Maybe the Republicans should try to self-deport the Tea Party, eh?
Couldn't hurt.
Occasional "deep thinker" from the Right-Center point of view David Brooks, tries his hand at steering the Republican Party back on course,
-- with his version of reverse-blame-the-Democrats psychology:
The Next Four Years
by David Brooks, NYTimes.com -- January 17, 2013
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It’s more likely that today’s majority party is going to adopt a different strategy, which you might call Kill the Wounded. It’s more likely that today’s Democrats are going to tell themselves something like this:
“We live at a unique moment. Our opponents, the Republicans, are divided, confused and bleeding. This is not the time to allow them to rebuild their reputation with a series of modest accomplishments. This is the time to kick them when they are down, to win back the House and end the current version of the Republican Party.
“First, we change the narrative. The president ran in 2008 against Washington dysfunction, casting blame on both parties. Over the years, he has migrated to a different narrative: The Republicans are crazy. Washington could be working fine, but the Republicans are crazy.
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“Then, wedge issues. The president should propose no new measures that might unite Republicans, the way health care did in the first term. Instead, he should raise a series of wedge issues meant to divide Southerners from Midwesterners, the Tea Party/Talk Radio base from the less ideological corporate and managerial class.
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Aah ... did Brooks just admit "the Republicans ARE crazy" ... or was that Obama?
Now I'm confused. Kind of sounds like he's recommending "a divide and conquer" strategy that will turn the Tea Party against the Corporatist wing of the greed party. Good thinking there Brooks, we'll take it under advisement.
Another "deep thinker" of a more progressive leaning, perhaps puts the Republican cultural-political dilemma quite succinctly:
"It's all Obama's fault the Republicans look so crazy" -- it's because, according to Republicans, "Obama is SOOO liberal. It's just that bad contrasting light, he keeps putting them in."
(you know those 'crazy and extreme' world views vs 'rational and measured' ones -- and they blame that dang Obama, for making it so obvious!)
Is the Republican Party Obama’s fault?
by Ezra Klein, WashingtonPost -- Jan 18, 2013
The first day of the House Republicans’ retreat was devoted, in large part, to persuading House Republicans to stop saying offensive things about rape and to stop thinking they can use the debt ceiling to hold the economy hostage after losing the 2012 election.
To state the obvious, these are not topics that should actually need to be covered at a retreat of House Republicans. We should be able to take it for granted that our legislators won’t petulantly crash the economy or offend rape survivors. That the House GOP leadership had to mount an organized campaign to convince GOP members of those things is evidence that something has gone wrong in the Republican Party.
No one knows that better than Republicans themselves. But it’s very difficult to be a Republican in a time of GOP dissolution. And so recent weeks have birthed the strangest strain of commentary I can remember: The Republican Party’s crazy opinions are President Obama’s fault.
The logic here is weirdly impeccable. The Republican Party’s dilemma is that House Republicans keeps taking all kinds of unreasonable and unpopular positions. If Obama weren’t president, the House Republicans wouldn’t be taking so many unreasonable and unpopular positions. But since Obama is president, and since he does need to work with House Republicans, he is highlighting their unreasonable and unpopular opinions in a bid to make them change their minds, which is making House Republicans look even worse. And so it’s ultimately Obama’s fault that House Republicans are, say, threatening to breach the debt ceiling if they don’t get their way on spending cuts. After all, if Mitt Romney had won the election, the debt ceiling wouldn’t even be a question!
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Talk about GOP Pretzel Logic ... on steroids.
Republicans just HAVE to take those "intolerable stands" -- it's because ... aah, Obama is so ... tolerable ... !?
Time for another brain trust retreat GOP. Keep trying guys, one of these years you'll get it right. One of these years you'll actually start listening to what the majority of the American People are actually saying.
PS. That's not the Koch-Cato-Peterson-funded people either, GOP -- But the American people, you know us working folks who have no use for fools. Extreme or otherwise.
Maybe the Republicans should try to self-deport the Tea Party?
Sarah Palin is so yesterday's news -- just ask Fox News already.
Talk about over. That Tea-drilling-gal is so over. Next!