Limomangary

today in an article on http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=a60IPhjP6LpA. the article’s writer detailed former house speaker newt gingrich’s recent comments made, at a republican senate & house fundraiser, about president barack obama. the former speaker was quoted as saying “obama’s already failed”. the same article discussed other speakers at the fundraiser and made statements about the failed attempts to fix the economy by way of the government bailouts and matters surrounding the comments made by gingrich, and resulting backlash, about obama’s U.S. supreme court nominee sonia sotomayor. to see the full bloomberg article follow the link above.

limomangary’s thoughts on the article and subject:

of course newt gingrich is going to make such a “radical statement” that pres. obama has failed. anyone that thinks this headline is a truly shocking statement has not been paying attention for the last 10 – 12 months. the republican party ran poor campaigns (presidency, senate, house) and got their heads handed to them in a clean sweep; their constituents (republican voters) are not in a good mood so now there must be a bombardment of ‘out-for-blood’ negative sentiment in order to regain trust that they plan to do something about it. in thinking more about the overall feelings about and within the republican party, let’s also not forget the choice by longtime GOP senator arlen spector, an Independent by thought and nature, to switch parties to democratic. remember you can be Independent on either side of the major party lines but his switch was one that is symbolic of the trouble within the republican party. while they’re making changes behind the scenes, fundamental changes and establishing the new faces of the party for 2010 and beyond, their political front has to posture like this! bare in mind ‘big politics’ is one of sentiment and trust, and if the constituency feels they can not trust their party leaders to do the job (tow the party line) then they either leave the party (following mr. spector) or don’t support the party as a whole. also don’t forget that immediately after the presidential election there were statements from the party about gaining the young vote and the necessity to step up such efforts. one of the greatest tools of catching the eye of young voters, on either side of party lines, is ‘shock and awe’. the younger generation rides the coat-tails of topics that energize them, having shock value (look no further than the success of reality t.v. shows, in mass droves, over the last 10 years their appeal to specifically the 18 - 30 year olds). don’t take this personally if this pertains to you as it is meant as a statement of generality; old & stodgy methodical ways once considered the backbone of politics no longer wins elections or support. it seems that the republican party is finally catching on in that matter. i am less concerned and interested in comments by gingrich and others like him and more concerned and interested in the behind the scenes activity i mentioned previously and the eventual ‘bringing to light’ of the newly formed republican party and the faces of the party in the next 2 years. eventually there will be the anti-obama from the ‘republican right’ that will stand toe-to-toe, the question is whether president obama and the democratic left will be prepared for a matching whirl-wind like the one they created in 2008.