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...nomination. "There's a breathtaking moment in every primary campaign, Democrat or Republican," Duffy says, "where the party wakes up and realizes that it's possible that someone they never thought of in that way could be the nominee." That moment came Wednesday, when House Speaker Newt Gingrich told a Washington Press Club dinner not to count Forbes out as a candidate: "This city, being a remarkably insular place, is convinced that Steve Forbes can't win because he doesn't have the experience, he doesn't have the practical background, he's not uniquely qualified to be an insider...
...young people to get involved in the political process. Nothing less than our generation's future hangs in the balance. We have two choices. We can sit idly by, watching politics as a spectator sport, as our collective future is sacrificed. Or we can get involved and send Newt Gingrich and his cronies a message: We are a generation. We have talent, energy and solidarity. If you try to mortgage our future, we will not remain silent. We will fight back...
...fair to expect a wide range of people to share the burden. But cutting student aid so drastically at a time when skyrocketing tuition costs make it increasingly impossible for families to pay for their children's education is the cruelest way to make ends meet. Newt Gingrich calls what he is trying to create an "opportunity society." Yet he is robbing millions of young people of the opportunity to go to college...
Sooner or later, but sometime over the next year, Newt Gingrich, Bob Dole and the rest of the Republicans are going to realize they picked the wrong generation to sacrifice to the corporate special interests that fund their campaigns...
People on the street eminently dressed in business suits and carrying briefcases seemed taken aback by the gathering. In their eyes, the 1980s "me decade" was supposed to have thoroughly put to death the days of student activism. What has happened instead is that Newt Gingrich has given student activism a surprisingly sudden resurrection. Thanks, Newt...