Gingrich Anoints Himself The Anti-Establishment Candidate

[ProSense]

Gingrich Anoints Himself The Anti-Establishment Candidate

Eric Kleefeld & Pema Levy

As the remaining Republican presidential candidates pivot from South Carolina to Florida, Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney have two very different purposes. Gingrich is trying to capitalize on all the themes that handed him a 22-point victory Saturday in South Carolina while Mitt Romney is trying to undo the damage and hit the reset bottom.

Making the rounds on the Sunday talk shows, Gingrich went all in as the anti-establishment candidate. “In Florida my case is going to be very simple,” Gingrich said on Meet The Press. “You have a clear establishment candidate in Mitt Romney. … And you have somebody whose entire career has been a Reagan populist conservative.”

Gingrich tailored his anti-establishment rhetoric to a Florida audience, providing a preview of what issues he will be hitting over the next ten days leading up to the Florida primary on Jan. 31. One key issue that is likely to dominate — and which Gingrich raised several times on Sunday — is the housing crisis and the high foreclosure rate in Florida in particular. Calling himself a “Reagan populist,” Gingrich noted on that Florida has endured “one of the most painful periods with housing mortgages and the price of housing and the difficulties in the housing area. Drawing an implicit line from Romney to the housing crisis, Gingirch said, “As they look at the big boys on Wall Street they look at the guys in Washington, they know none of that help got down to average everyday Floridians. And I think that gap creates a real anger against the national establishment.”

Gingrich, who received a standing ovation last Thursday when he began CNN’s presidential debate by decrying the media, is also beating the “elite media” drum. “People are just sick and tired of being told what they’re allowed to think, what they’re allowed to say,” Gingrich told NBC’s David Gregory. “The highest, the most intense passion in both debates was a head-on collision about what the news media was doing. And I think there’s something real and deep there.”

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[ddeclue]

1. In other news.. sun sets in East.. black is white.. up is down...

Yeah Newt is anti-establishment and I have a bridge to sell you in Tampa...

[liberal N proud]

2. The establishment is the anti establishment

Using the media to blast the media

Prosecuting an adultere while being an adulterer


The hypocrisy is piling ever deeper in the waste land called America.

[SharonAnn]

10. Right, but I thought the GOP WAS the establishment.

[liberal N proud]

11. That's what I thought too, but...

As usual they are projecting.

[Cleita]

3. Really? So now he's a hippie from the sixties?

I think not.

[Sheepshank]

4. Well, I suppose *this* isn't normal established behaviour/chatter either....

[BumRushDaShow]

5. So is he now going to embrace OWS?

After suddenly talking about "big boys on Wall Street"?

He's obviously aware of OWS and knowing they aren't affiliated with a party, he's going to try to get their votes by being "anti-Wall Street" too?

This won't go well so good luck with that, Mr. Lobbyist!

[FarLeftFist]

6. Ah yes, the "anti-establishment" made a career from inside the establishment.

[Initech]

7. Because when I think of anti-establishment...

Newt Gingrich is the first name I think of!

[ProSense]

8. Yup:

Gingrich Falsely Claims He Was Completely Exonerated In Ethics Investigtion
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002202099

[zappaman]

9. ya gotta give him credit for being a total asshole

he really seems to have NO shame.