Word: gingrichism
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...Claire McCaskill's daughter, to take one newly eligible voter, was all of 2 years old when that happened the first time. The Gingrich revolution came during her pre-K years; impeachment was around second grade. In other words, no matter how many times Hillary Clinton intones the magic word of 2008 - change - it's going to ring a bit hollow, because she is an eternal piece of their mental furniture...
...polls. Republicans have no experience with chaos like this, except in history books. "It is without a doubt," says G.O.P. strategist Ralph Reed, "the most unpredictable roller-coaster ride we've seen in a Republican primary since the rise of the primary in the 1960s." Party-history buff Newt Gingrich went further: he called the G.O.P. contest the most wide-open race the party has held since 1940 - the year Wendell Willkie needed six ballots to capture the nomination before losing to F.D.R. in a third-term landslide...
...fact, a certain gentleman by the name of Newt Gingrich—I think you may be familiar with him—spearheaded the effort of the Congress to issue an official “censure.” What do you think of Newt Gingrich...
...like the viciousness and the negativism—that was him. He kept saying in the ’90s that it was a mistake for Republicans and Democrats to treat each other as friends who have honest disagreements. He really thought Democrats were bad people. Gingrich deliberately set out to make politics angrier and meaner, and said people should not consider the Democrats to be honorable people with whom you disagree. They’re treasonous, they’re corrupt, they’re immoral, so I think his effect on politics was very negative...
...election cycle, the IRS warned 26 charities that they'd stepped over the line, and a further 60 are under investigation. Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich in August returned a $50,000 check to a Colorado family foundation after his policy organization determined the donation was illegal. Losing tax-exempt status could be financially devastating to smaller nonprofits. "You do have to be careful," says Ann Kuster, a lawyer advising the Nonprofit Primary Project. "Everything we undertake must be nonpartisan and include every candidate...