alternative. but there s no doubt this is going to be hard. e have tough atmospherics, we have a tough economy. in 2008, i can tell you, the turnout that we got amongst younger voters, minority voters, it was really hard to do. it just didn t happen. it took a lot of money, a lot of time, a lot of focus.ra and we in good democratic campaigns are trying to bring that to bear. we re not going to replicate 08, but if we can do a little bit better than projected, we re going to win some close races that right now looks like we might lose by a close margin. let me ask you this in closing, and i suspect a i m abt to fail in this attempt. but i m going to ask you this as david plouffe. newt gingrich quoted in the national review online this weekend, says, what if obama is so outside our comprehension that only if you understand kenyan anti-colonial behavior can you begin to piece together his actions? that is the most accurate predictive model for his behaor. whats newt gingrich trying to
i mean, intellectually, newt gingrich was responding to a magazine article that was written by denesh desouza, who is, by the way, a native of mumbai, who thinks he knows a little bit about anti-colonialism, so gingrich is basically buying into that. does that have to do with tea parties? but what people don t read in is that denesh desouza is a former analyst in the reagan administration. but it s red meat for the base. it s what he s been doing, what sarah palin s been doing. that s why these candidates in alaska and florida and maybe in delaware and in new hampsre are going to win in these primaries, and i don t tnk iort ets votes f them in the general. but it certainly riles up the base in the primaries. and theseth analysts say that republicans are going to overwhelmingly turn out because of these primaries, i don t buy it. they ve ju had much more contentiouprimaries around the country and are bringing out this kind of base. let s move on to my favorite
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get at there? llw two words that come to mind are sad and reprehensible. you know, i was working in congress when he was speaker and disagreed with just about everything that he did. but you got the sense there was some principle volved. he s clearly a very intelligent person. and to see him it makes me think, by the way, he s probably pretty sure he s going to run for president, becse he s clearly trying to appeal to the folks that are supporting christine o don in delaware tomorrow. and you know, whether he believes there s a perceived weakne there or not, i ll leave that to him to answer. but it has no place in our politics. he knows better. he s made comments like this in the pastaround the islamic center in new york,at for instance, th are really not the newt gingrich i think a lot of us remembered. so i think it s very prehensibl. it may have an audience during the iowa caucuses next year or, pshire or new h south carolina. but i don t think that s where most americans ar
or any of the rest of it. there is a way to say the president doesn t think like you, if that s your position he s out of the mainstream. he s out of the mainstream, or spent too much time overseas as a child and he doesn t think those things. you can say those things and people will either agree or disagree, but to say kenyan an anti-colonial, that seems to be not like us. he s not like us. and all that that implies, which is why david plouffed called it sad and reprehensible. newt gingrich, is a man of ideas, but this is playing to some kind of lowest common denominator or maybe some intellectual high plain. i can t figure it out, but it s certainly not the newt gingrich i used to know. ne of the things that first of all, you re absolutely right. if you can portray the president as a little, you know different. difrent, than it s easier to run against him. but the other thing about this,