Word: newt
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...whole nominating process melts down and no one has a majority of delegates going into the party's August convention. Wisconsin Governor Tommy Thompson even shared his with TIME: Colin Powell, Jack Kemp, Bill Bennett, some mainstream Senator, a nice modern Governor and, at the very bottom, Newt Gingrich. When Dole began winning again last week, he won himself a reprieve. The Governors, for the time being at least, stopped thinking about where to bury him and began scheming about how to save him from the traps that still lie ahead...
...clean water and unsullied wilderness areas. But because they misread popular sentiment on the environment, the G.O.P. took a beating in the polls on this issue. Now as many as 91 House Republicans are voting with the Democrats on environmental measures. Shortly after the House reconvenes this week, Speaker Newt Gingrich is expected to announce the formation of a task force to review the Republican approach to the environment; he says the party "mishandled" the matter last year...
...such a case, explained Edwards, Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) and several powerful GOP governors would begin working out deals to choose a candidate who could beat President Clinton in November...
Last year's revolt against the Clintons led by Newt Gingrich was all about the dislike, even hatred, that Talents and Lifers feel for Mandarins. Gingrich and some of his key lieutenants are failed Mandarins--recall that as a historian, Gingrich was denied tenure at a third-rank college--ho despise the Mandarin path for its air of self-satisfaction and for having been so blind to the abilities of Gingrich & Co. when young. When Gingrich rails against the corrupt "elite," he's talking about the Mandarins--and hitting a nerve. Mandarin resentment has enabled the Republican Party, whose home...
...first two years infuriated the "Anxious Middle;" as Dionne calls the economically and philosophically insecure middle class; once again, government seemed impotent to address the problems they cared about. So, in 1994, the same people who turned against Bush now turned against Clinton and the Democrats, in favor of Newt Gingrich's Republicans...