How To Beat Newt Gingrich.
Jan. 23rd, 2012 11:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wolven7Earlier today, I was listening to the NPR breakdown of what went down in the SC Primary, and I found myself torn concerning who I wanted to get the Republican Nomination. Well, after thinking about it for a few hours, I'm still torn, but I did finally figure out how to beat Newt Gingrich.
In addition to Just Letting Him Speak, you talk, when you talk directly about him at all, about his hypocrisy-- his unfaithfulness-- as a Pattern. You take his infidelity to his wives while charging after people for their infidelity, and you tie that to his lobbying, or rather "consulting," for big banks, and his time on the side of big business and otherwise ensuring the status quo in Washington, DC, all while he tries to be the "Anti-Establishment" candidate, in 2012. You make it about hypocrisy, lies, broken promises, and soiled oaths.
When he comes back with the things Obama didn't accomplish in his first term, you counter with the stall tactics and all the No's Congress used-- the same kind of tactics Newt used, when he was Speaker of the House-- and then you turn that into a call for bi-partisanship and a new way forward. You use this as contrast, to show that, when re-elected, Obama will continue to work on the promises he made to the American People, while addressing any roadblocks he encountered, in his first term.
Because-- and these will echo the first ads, where you don't mention Newt's name, at all-- when you make a promise to a partner-- "and, I beling that it is the purpose of the President of These United States to work in a partnership, with the American people"-- you don't just turn and run at the first sign of not getting what you want; you find out what your partner wants, what they need, and you work twice as hard to get each other where you need to be.
And, again, that's just the first set of ads.
Later, you focus in on hypocrisy, and you use that to show that as he has lied and stalled, before, so will he, again.
Now, I'm no fan of a lot of the shit President Obama's done, these past several months, but you have to admit: This platform, when added to a genuine reform position in regards to rights and policies? It's pretty compelling.
[EDIT, 11.38pm: But I must constantly remind myself of Josh's injunction to Toby: "The problem is, you wanna Beat 'em. I wanna WIN."
Because it is SO GODDAMN EASY to take Gingrich down, if he gets the nomination, that what I'm really worried about, here, is the Democratic Party doing the political equivalent of tripping over their own shoelaces, falling on their chins, and biting their own damn tongues off.
THAT'S what worries me, here.]
In addition to Just Letting Him Speak, you talk, when you talk directly about him at all, about his hypocrisy-- his unfaithfulness-- as a Pattern. You take his infidelity to his wives while charging after people for their infidelity, and you tie that to his lobbying, or rather "consulting," for big banks, and his time on the side of big business and otherwise ensuring the status quo in Washington, DC, all while he tries to be the "Anti-Establishment" candidate, in 2012. You make it about hypocrisy, lies, broken promises, and soiled oaths.
When he comes back with the things Obama didn't accomplish in his first term, you counter with the stall tactics and all the No's Congress used-- the same kind of tactics Newt used, when he was Speaker of the House-- and then you turn that into a call for bi-partisanship and a new way forward. You use this as contrast, to show that, when re-elected, Obama will continue to work on the promises he made to the American People, while addressing any roadblocks he encountered, in his first term.
Because-- and these will echo the first ads, where you don't mention Newt's name, at all-- when you make a promise to a partner-- "and, I beling that it is the purpose of the President of These United States to work in a partnership, with the American people"-- you don't just turn and run at the first sign of not getting what you want; you find out what your partner wants, what they need, and you work twice as hard to get each other where you need to be.
And, again, that's just the first set of ads.
Later, you focus in on hypocrisy, and you use that to show that as he has lied and stalled, before, so will he, again.
Now, I'm no fan of a lot of the shit President Obama's done, these past several months, but you have to admit: This platform, when added to a genuine reform position in regards to rights and policies? It's pretty compelling.
[EDIT, 11.38pm: But I must constantly remind myself of Josh's injunction to Toby: "The problem is, you wanna Beat 'em. I wanna WIN."
Because it is SO GODDAMN EASY to take Gingrich down, if he gets the nomination, that what I'm really worried about, here, is the Democratic Party doing the political equivalent of tripping over their own shoelaces, falling on their chins, and biting their own damn tongues off.
THAT'S what worries me, here.]
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Date: 2012-01-24 09:14 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-01-25 02:40 am (UTC)The Dems are going to have a tough time. IIRC, no president has ever been re-elected when unemployment figures are this high. The American People, as far as I can tell, are pissed, and they aren't interested in hearing anything about how well someone can work with another. Even Obama is recognizing that and changing his speeches to reflect it. People are recognizing that big, major changes need to be happening and the current system is too corrupt or inept to handle them.
Newt has brilliantly cast his career/life to the Evangelicals as one of Redemption - because he has admitted that he has made mistakes, and has asked God for forgiveness, he gets a get-out-of-jail-free card. The hypocrisy doesn't mean anything to them. Newt understands how to work his audience, the Evangelical Right, and he converted to Catholicism to get the Catholic Right (Hispanics). He is not fucking around here.