Gingrich Calls on RNC to Pull 'Destructive' Ad

[Cardinal]

Gingrich Calls on RNC to Pull 'Destructive' Ad - MarketWatch

Dear Chairman Duncan,

I was saddened to learn that at a time of national trial, when a president-elect is preparing to take office in the midst of the worst financial crisis in over seventy years, that the Republican National Committee is engaged in the sort of negative, attack politics that the voters rejected in the 2006 and 2008 election cycles.

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Furthermore, once President Obama takes office, Republicans should be eager to work with him when he is right, and, when he is wrong, offer a better solution, instead of just opposing him.
This is the only way the Republican Party will become known as the "better solutions" party, not just an opposition party. And this is the only way Republicans will ever regain the trust of the voters to return to the majority.

This ad is a terrible signal to be sending about both the goals of the Republican Party in the midst of the nation's troubled economic times and about whether we have actually learned anything from the defeats of 2006 and 2008.

The RNC should pull the ad down immediately.

Sincerely,

Newt Gingrich

I think Gingrich is trying to be a voice of moderation amidst a contrived and self perpetuating feeding frenzy. Will anti-Obama partisans take note of his advice? And if so, will they blink?

 

[Cardinal]

And in addition

His chorus of dissent was joined later in the day by Patrick Ruffini, a prominent online voice for Republicans. (Ruffini was the e-campaign director for the RNC during the 2006 election cycle and did the same for former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani's presidential campaign.)

In a post on post on The Next Right (a new-ish online gathering place for conservatives), Ruffini wrote:

"It's fair to say that any residual connections Obama may have with Gov. Blagojevich as a result of being an Illinois Senator are not the strongest part of our argument. I can understand the desire to go at Obama. But with Obama at 76% approval for the transition, our hits against him have to be clean hits, or they will blow up in our face."

The sentiments expressed publicly by Gingrich and Ruffini are echoed privately by a number of Republican strategists who view the attempts to link Blagojevich and Obama as nothing more than a fool's errand given the lack of evidence that the public sees any real connection between the two men.

Republicans Revolt on RNC's Obama-Blago Strategy - The Fix

 

[winston53660]

Hmmmm interesting, this kinda makes me think people might be uniting.

 

[Tucker Case]

Good for Newt! He's a smart guy.

 

[Zyphlin]

I agree completley with Newt.

We hated the Democrats sitting there for the past 8 years just saying "Bush Sucks" in any way imaginable but rarely if anything offering much of anything as an alternative.

Why are we now doing the same thing?

If Obama does something right, then we should show we're actually ADULTS and note it as such...something many on the left had previously been incapable to do and that conservatives hated.

If Obama does something wrong, don't just bitch about it. Bitching is pointless, and is childish. Think he did something in error, offer an ALTERNATIVE. Tell the American people WHY he's wrong and HOW to fix it, not just that he's wrong.

It was once said that Republicans was the party of substance and Democrats that of emotion. So stop acting like democrats and reacting to everything purely from an emotional base and start actually start producing substance.