gingrich

This seems like a slightly more plausible version of Newt Gingrich promising a moon colony if elected President.

It was complete with actors as news anchors, Newt Gingrich apparently played himself (don't remember that part), etc.

Archivist Newton Leroy Gingrich (who never went into politics in this timeline) at the New Capital District in Cheyenne Mountain, Colorado.

Last time around, Herman Cain and Newt Gingrich had similar periods of being the front runner before they were dismissed by voters.

For instance, New Gingrich said: > No one should kid themselves.

I believe it was Newt Gingrich who pushed the Thomas project, the initiative to put the text of all congressional bills online.

By the time Bill Clinton was in the White House, Newt Gingrich attained the Speakership, and the extremist elements began calling the shots within the GOP.

This is the movement that started with Barry Goldwater, came to fruition under Reagan, began to wobble badly when Gingrich became Speaker of the House, and shit the bed completely under Bush.

End of life care is insanely expensive --- This would've been addressed in the ACA, but Sarah Palin, Newt Gingrich and their dimwit followers torpedoed the 'death panels' to score some cheap political points.

You can almost see Gingrich's "Contract with America" happening in 1994-1996 as debt payments ballooned to almost a quarter of the budget.

Gingrich, Santorum, and RuPaul were similarly "a few points" behind Obama in 2012, and they had just as little chance of ever becoming president.

That's what people said after Gingrich did the same thing and "failed".

Which is why the "defeats" suffered by Gingrich isn't seen as a defeat -- its only a defeat from a perspective which keeps score by political offices held, not substantive influence exercised.

First, he's not as savvy at manipulating the media with soundbytes as people like John McCain and Newt Gingrich.

The Clinton/Gingrich welfare reform efforts were intended to move families off of public dependency and to a large extent they met with success.

The Republican 'take no prisoners' strategy can probably be traced back to Gingrich.