An Internet hub for moderates, centrists, and independents, with domestic and international news, analysis, original reporting, and popular features from the left, center, and right

« There Will Be Some O’s Missing In The White House When The Bushies Leave

Obama After Football: Will Close Guantanamo, Break the Addiction to Oil »

GOPers Jindal And Gingrich: Republican Party Must Change

Posted by JOE GANDELMAN, Editor-In-Chief in Politics.
Nov 16th, 2008 | Comments

Bob Schieffer had Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal and Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich on CBS’s Face the Nation — and both indicated that the Republican party must change if it wants to rebound.

Jindal shows why he is a rising Republican star (excellent on television and issue-oriented) and stresses that the Republican party must be more than “the part of ‘no.’” Gingrich is ever the historian — blunt as always, putting the GOP’s losses in historical perspective..and he pointedly predicts that defeated Vice Presidential candidate Gov. Sarah Palin will not be the Republican party’s de facto leader. A solid segment (which Schieffer always produces):

Ads by Project Wonderful! Your ad here, right now: $0

GeorgeSorwell

Bob Schieffer had Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal and Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich on CBS’s Face the Nation

Wow--are there no Democrats they could put on their TV show?

kritt11

Actually, I'm not a conservative- but at least Jindahl is focusing on solutions and not the same tired out ideology.

The GOP lost because they no longer offer any real solutions to the middle class. The Joe the Plumber routine was a lame attempt to show they are not completely out of touch , and American voters saw through it. Obama won in many traditionally Republican areas.

jeff_pickens

It seems like the news stories are emphasizing the Republican attempt to "rise again to power." That's not a flattering picture. That's nothing different than the party platform over the last several decades, "Republican Rule." I'm disinterested in party-majority "power" and more interested in what benefits the average American. To the degree that the GOP is attempting to re-define what it stands for, in a way that doesn't cater to hyper-partisan rhetoric, claims that half the population are "Anti-American," and it's marriage to the Religious Right in all cultural wars, I'll take a serious look at what the party has to offer.

It will be interesting to see if this "redefinition" seeks to rally the toxicity of the divisive base, or if it has some other dimension. Newt Gingrich was potentially the most divisive politician in my memory, and it's interesting how quickly we forget and forgive his hypocrisy, his shutting-down-of-government, and his livid hatred of Clinton. What is his new "contract with America?" I hope something constructive.

Silhouette

It will be interesting to see how the GOP remedies the fatal flaw in its makeup. On the one hand you have devout christians who make up the majority of its ranks, who believe in following the word of God. On the other hand, most of the GOP leaders are taking the party in the direction of rebelling against the very most basic of christian edicts: The Ten Commandments.

So yeah, have at it. And good luck with that. ; )

kritt11

Gingrich is an incurable egomaniac, who doesn't seem to follow his own ideas. The GOP is in deep trouble if they are relying on Newt's ideas to get them out of the wilderness. Remember when he said we were already in WWIII?

blog comments powered by Disqus