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Politics : I Will Continue to Continue, to Pretend....

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To: Sully- who wrote (10763)6/14/2005 3:19:30 AM
From: Sully-   of 35834
 
Newt Gingrich Interview Part 5 - Howard Dean

"So far to the left that for most of the country it looks weird"

Posted by Trey Jackson
Jackson's Junction

In this part of the interview, I asked Mr. Gingrich about Howard Dean and how he thought Mr. Dean affected the democratic party.

You can watch the exchange HERE.
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Transcript:

Trey Jackson:
I'm curious about this. We hear alot about how the left thinks that the right has redefined the lines of what the middle is. I'm wondering if they haven't been more succesful at redefining that line now that Howard Dean is so far to the left. Dick Morris said on The O'Reilly Factor that he thought it was good for a candidate like Hillary Clinton to have a Howard Dean. It allowed them to say 'I'm not liberal. I'm not..I'm not out to the left...

Newt Gingrich:
I actually don't agree with that. I think that if Howard Dean continues to define the democratic party as a negative, left-wing extremist party, he actually weakens the whole party's identity. I don't think that's helpful. When we created the contract with America we were totally positive. We had in Haley Barber a chairman who really knew how to put it together. He was very positive. There's a center-right majority in America and I think we were able to put that center-right majority together because we were working as a team. It doesn't strike me that having a Democratic Chairman who weakens and isolates the party and puts it so far to the left that for most of the country it looks weird, I don't see how that's helpful in the longrun if you're trying to win as a democrat.


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