Doesn't Anyone Try The Middle-Ground Anymore?
Interesting take on how Newt Gingrich is coming back into vogue with the GOP. I find it amusing that the gist of this article past the narration of Newts return, is that GOP lawmakers can’t seem to find anything other than the extremes. They wildly oscillate between policy advice via Think Tanks and then move en masse to K-Street for different policy advice. What this does, is leave them wide open to a bevy of demagogues in their own party, and the winner is the one who finds success first.
Gingrich is still not a popular man outside the players in his own party. It does seem however, that time may have dulled the rancor that forced him out of one of the easiest seats for a Republican in congress(http://tinyurl.com/d82kh6). His pull within the party however has sharpened in this vacuum.
I personally find him to be the archetype Politician-Strategist, a Karl Rove like thinker who has more charm(not necessarily an endorsement). He possesses the ability to talk like a moderate, even act with it at times, but also itching for the first moment he can railroad his ideology. It seems GOP lawmakers would be wise to take some advice from Newt, but to realize neither the guys with junkets in cheap suits or the ones in fancy suits and white papers have sustainable political philosophies. Coupled with a difficult philosophy in modern conservatism, the brand only gets weaker when you can’t represent it with well thought out arguments and consistency.
-Dack
