{"id":526484,"date":"2010-04-13T18:41:58","date_gmt":"2010-04-13T22:41:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.szone.us\/f95\/gingrich-conservatives-must-movement-yes-42245\/"},"modified":"2010-04-13T18:41:58","modified_gmt":"2010-04-13T22:41:58","slug":"gingrich-conservatives-must-be-a-movement-of-yes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/526484","title":{"rendered":"Gingrich: Conservatives Must Be A Movement of ?Yes?"},"content":{"rendered":"
On 04.13.10 12:00 PM posted by Mike Brownfield<\/p>\n

\n<ahref="http:\/\/blog.heritage.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Gingrich-TBB-10-4-132.jpg">\"\"<\/p>Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich has a message for conservatives if they want to succeed in changing the debate in Washington: conservatives must be a movement of \u0093yes,\u0094 and they must stand for what they will do.<\/p>\n

He delivered that message today at <ahref="http:\/\/thebloggersbriefing.com\/">The Bloggers Briefing, a gathering of conservative bloggers from across the capital, held at The Heritage Foundation.<\/p>\n

Gingrich also has a slogan for conservatives \u0096 \u00932 + 2 = 4\u0094 \u0096 which he describes as a way to slow down the political debate in America and serves as a reminder of what he says the left\u0092s agenda is really about \u0096 an Orwellian government machine that tries to sell Americans on the notion that two-plus-two equals three, when in reality, it\u0092s not.<\/p>\n

<spanid="more-31219"><\/span>And it is today\u0092s political reality that is most disconcerting to Gingrich. He describes President Obama\u0092s government as a \u0093secular socialist machine\u0094 that is \u0093destructive of our society.\u0094 Its hallmark? He says it\u0092s a combination of the bad economics of the 1970s, the Welfare state of the 1950s, Springfield corruption, Chicago-style politics and Saul Alinsky\u0092s rules for radicals.<\/p>\n

To combat that machine, Gingrich calls on conservatives to \u0093refute everything the machine says\u0094 and to employ the movement of \u0093yes.\u0094 He pointed to history for examples of when the conservative movement capitalized on that strategy, including Ronald Reagan\u0092s victory over President Jimmy Carter and, more personal to Gingrich, the conservative revolution of 1994.<\/p>\n

We took on a liberal president, we stopped government in its tracks, we moved to the first balanced budget in a generation \u0085 and we got reelected for the first time since 1928,\u0094 Gingrich said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

And as for a roadmap for governing in the future, Gingrich says \u0093yes\u0094 is key to success. He pointed to The Heritage Foundation\u0092s 1980 study \u0093Mandate for Leadership,\u0094 which made policy recommendations for the incoming Reagan Administration, as an example of conservatives successfully advancing a positive agenda and real ideas for governance. To illustrate his point about a message of “yes,” he noted, “We did not have a contract against Clinton,” referencing the “Contract With America.” Rather, conservatives stood for tax cuts, for balanced budgets and for Welfare reform.<\/p>\n

You can always arouse a fair amount of conservative excitement by saying \u0091no,\u0092\u0094 Gingrich said, \u0093But you can’t govern by saying no.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

There are four top issues that Gingrich says should be on the positive conservative agenda: jobs, including dramatically cutting taxes and regulations; balancing the federal budget, which he calls a moral and economic imperative; energy, so that new building booms occur \u0093in St. Louis, instead of Dubai;\u0094 and education reform, which he says is vital to ensuring we can compete with China and India.<\/p>\n

In Gingrich\u0092s view, there is a stark difference between a conservative vision for America and the liberal message being sold to the country.<\/p>\n

The Obama model for America, Gingrich says, is \u0093We should be grateful that the level of misery we’ve gotten to is not nearly as bad as it could\u0092ve been.\u0094 To counter that message of malaise, Gingrich says conservatives must offer a better set of solutions than liberals, not just an ideology.<\/p>\n

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On 04.13.10 12:00 PM posted by Mike Brownfield <ahref="http:\/\/blog.heritage.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Gingrich-TBB-10-4-132.jpg"><\/p>Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich has a message for conservatives if they want to succeed in changing the debate in Washington: conservatives must be a movement of \u0093yes,\u0094 and they must stand for what they will do. He delivered that message today at <ahref="http:\/\/thebloggersbriefing.com\/">The Bloggers […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4292,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-526484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526484","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\/4292"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=526484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526484\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=526484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=526484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=526484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}