{"id":366073,"date":"2010-02-26T12:03:59","date_gmt":"2010-02-26T17:03:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=77789"},"modified":"2010-02-26T12:03:59","modified_gmt":"2010-02-26T17:03:59","slug":"gingrich-launching-pac-talking-about-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/366073","title":{"rendered":"Gingrich Launching PAC, Talking About 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reid Wilson <a href=\"http:\/\/hotlineoncall.nationaljournal.com\/archives\/2010\/02\/gingrich_12_is.php\">has the details<\/a> of a National Journal interview with Newt Gingrich in which the former speaker of the House &#8212; resigning 12 years ago, Democrats like to point out, after an election defeat and several scandals &#8212; mulls a presidential run. He&#8217;s also launching a PAC, becoming a skin-in-the-game political player (as opposed to a floating wise man and commentator) for the first time since, I think, 1998, when Democrats used his unpopularity to beat up on Republicans.<span id=\"more-77789\"><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>As he reflected on the arguments of a potential campaign, Gingrich mused, &#8220;I think that the three questions are: who are we [as a country], what do we have to do to compete successfully with China and India, and what threatens us and how do we stay safe?&#8221; If a GOPer could effectively organize a campaign around those themes, Gingrich said, &#8220;You&#8217;d be a [Ronald] Reagan or bigger majority coming together to say, &#8216;Yep, that&#8217;s the direction I want to go in.&#8217;&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Ronald Reagan&#8217;s majority or bigger! No one&#8217;s going to chasten Gingrich for his lack of self-confidence. I&#8217;ll just point out that Gingrich <a href=\"http:\/\/people-press.org\/report\/524\/republican-favorability\">remains a fairly unpopular politician<\/a>, a fact that his omnipresence in the Beltway and on Fox News sometimes obscures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reid Wilson has the details of a National Journal interview with Newt Gingrich in which the former speaker of the House &#8212; resigning 12 years ago, Democrats like to point out, after an election defeat and several scandals &#8212; mulls a presidential run. He&#8217;s also launching a PAC, becoming a skin-in-the-game political player (as opposed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4313,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-366073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4313"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=366073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366073\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}