Word: newt
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...such a shift may be less of a new paradigm than the old politics of personality. I suspect that if Newt Gingrich were in Bill Clinton's cowboy boots, the American public would be saying, Pack up your bags. Even today, Gary Hart, who was once Warren Beatty's presidential candidate, would probably not get the benefit of the doubt that Bill Clinton is receiving. There was something holier-than-thou about Hart that folks just didn't cotton to. Bill Clinton comes across as a struggling sinner and never implies that he's better than the people who voted...
...Bakker and Jimmy Swaggart. Mark Twain once said that a man, if he's any good, never gets over being a boy. We like men in whom we can see the vestiges of the boy. You can still make out the flirtatious teenage horn player in Bill Clinton. Newt Gingrich--who last week deemed Clinton an "illegal man"--despite his love of dinosaurs, probably seemed like a mini-adult even when he was in short pants...
...movie should be required for new members of Congress--instead of lectures by Newt Gingrich. It's spring, and Washington is crowded with hordes of high schoolers posing on the steps of the Capitol with their Representatives. It's just a picture bite. Few nonpayers get to see their Congressman. Just last month, when a stricter drunken-driving standard was up for a vote, Mothers Against Drunk Driving couldn't get in to see key members, who they were told were "in conference or on the floor." But the door was open for the lobbyists for liquor and restaurants...
Late last month, House Republican leaders gathered in Newt Gingrich's office to hear some sobering news from the man who tracks the party's chances in November's election. John Linder's message, contained in a confidential memo in advance of the April 23 meeting, was simple: the G.O.P. could lose its narrow 11-seat majority in the House if it didn't find a way to galvanize its grass-roots activists, many of whom are Christian conservatives...
...part, after years of dismissing official Washington as a bunch of clueless and irrelevant bureaucrats, now has his own team of spin cyclists whirring into high gear. Redmond's roster boasts ex-Republican National Committee chairman and renowned spinmeister Haley Barbour, former Minnesota Congressman Vin Webber (a Newt Gingrich confidant) and former New Jersey Congressman Tom Downey (an Al Gore confidant). Edelman Worldwide, in the person of Reagan-era imagemaker Mike Deaver, is handling the company's overall Washington p.r. effort...