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Newt 2012

"Newt Now" +
  2:34 web video from Oct. 18, 2011.











[Music] Obama (clip from closing days of 2008 campaign): We are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America...

TEXT: A Nation in Crisis


TEXT: THE RIGHT Message

Gingrich (clip from debate): The American people create jobs, not government...

(Clip from debate) Moderator: Would you reappoint Ben Bernanke?  Gingrich: I would fire him tomorrow...I think the Fed should be audited.

Gingrich (clip from debate): I'm not particularly worried about Gov. Perry and Gov. Romney frightening the American people when President Obama scares them every single day.


TEXT: THE RIGHT Experience

Gingrich (clip from debate): When I was Speaker we added 11 million jobs in a bipartisan effort, including welfare reform, the largest capital gains tax cut in history; we balanced the budget for four straight years.

Gingrich (clip from debate): How would the country feel today at 4.2% unemployment?  That's my credential.


TEXT: THE RIGHT Ideas

Gingrich (clip from debate): I'm going to outline a 21st Century Contract with America, and it's going to be far bolder, far deeper, far more profound than what we did in 1994 or what I helped Jack Kemp and Ronald Reagan do in 1980.

Gingrich (clip from debate): I am very much in favor of school choice.  My personal preference would be to have a Pell Grant for K through 12 so that every parent could pick with their child any school they wanted to send them to.

Gingrich (clip from debate): I think unemployment compensation should be tied directly to a training program, so that that 99 weeks becomes an investment in human capital, giving us the best trained workforce in the world; but I believe it is fundamentally wrong to give people money for 99 weeks for doing nothing.


TEXT: THE RIGHT Leadership

Gingrich (clip from debate): The Congress this year, this next week, ought to repeal the Dodd-Frank bill, they ought to repeal the Sarbanes-Oxley bill, they ought to start creating jobs right now because for those 14 million Americans this is a depression now.

Gingrich (clip from debate): Well I'm frankly not interested in your effort to get Republicans fighting each other.

Gingrich (clip from debate): I for one, and I hope all of my friends up here are going to repudiate every effort of the news media to get Republicans to fight each other to protect Barack Obama who deserves to be defeated, and all of us are committed as a team; whoever the nominee is, we are all for defeating Barack Obama.  [cheers]


TEXT: THE RIGHT Candidate
TEXT: At Just the RIGHT TIME

Gingrich (clip from debate): Nothing will turn America around more [bell] than Election Night, when Barack Obama loses decisively.  [cheers]

TEXT: LEADERSHIP Now
TEXT: NEWT Now
Logo/A 21st Century Contract with America.

Notes: Gingrich does well in debates, and this video highlights that fact.