A couple of weeks ago, Newt Gingrich was disgusted with the treatment Dede Scozzafava (R-NY) received from establishment Republicans in New York's 23rd District. Apparently he's had a change of heart:
Newt Gingrich, the former Republican House speaker and purveyor of the GOP "Contract With America'' that helped his party win control of the House after President Bill Clinton's election, says GOP chairman Michael Steele has started work on a new framework for 2010 that he is calling "First principles.''
"I've been talking with Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele, '' Gingrich said today, speaking with students at C-SPAN's Cable Center Class. [...]
"Having a positive set of things that say, 'if you elect us, these are the positive steps we will take,'' Gingrich said, on a program that C-SPAN3 is airing at 5 pm EST. This "may well be the key building block to really become the alternative party, not the opposition party.''...
What will their latest first principles be? Give me teabagging or give me death, or, our tent is bigger than your tent?
One guess.