Newt Gingrich Quotes
This is the classic fight between the moderate Republicans who try to get to the middle by compromise and the conservative Republicans who try to create a new middle by driving the left away.
The Repubican primary contest weakened Mitt Romney, the eventual primary winner and Presidential Candidate, by forcing him to the right to satisfy the conservative Republicans. This made him very unappealing not only to some moderate republicans but also to independents and especially to minorities and women who very much resented the conservative Republican culture clash which they saw as attacks on them. Democrat Barack Obama won the General Election handily.
Newt Gingrich, U.S. Congressman (Republican, GA), Speaker of the House, Description of the 2012 Republican Presidential Primary battle, Quoted in New York Times Magazine, January 1, 2012
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So far as he was concerned, Republican moderates—his own party members—were liberals. Anyone who did not support the extreme Conservative agenda, was an enemy and a liberal. He and the Tea Party drove almost all the moderate Republicans out of the party.
Rafael Sebastian Guillen Vicente
Left and right as political concepts are very subjective and relative. When Obama won the Presidency, the Republican Party and swung far to the right—so far that Rockefeller, Eisenhower and others would not be acceptable to the party. Most of the Republicans saw Obama as an extreme leftist while at the same time, most of the leftists in the Democratic Party like Reich were unhappy with Obama as he was too conservative—almost a Republican.
The Vice President had quoted Ronald Reagan’s famous inaugural address statement {630713}. Once Quayle became the number two man in the government, he was asked if he were part of the problem which elicited this famous response.
Newton Leroy Gingrich is an American politician and author who served as the 50th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 1995 to 1999. A member of the Republican Party, he was the U.S. Representative for Georgia's 6th congressional district serving north Atlanta and nearby areas from 1979 until his resignation in 1999. In 2012, Gingrich unsuccessfully ran for the Republican nomination for President of the United States.
