Huge SC Win Vindication For Gingrich Spokesman, Rick Tyler

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I don’t know how I missed this, last Spring, but I did, so I for one, don’t  Owe Gingrich Aide Rick Tyler an Apology.

Some people do, though.

My goodness, this is  funny stuff:

Back in May, a Gingrich spokesman named Rick Tyler released a statement that has been facetiously referred to as “the greatest statement ever“:

The literati sent out their minions to do their bidding. Washington cannot tolerate threats from outsiders who might disrupt their comfortable world. The firefight started when the cowardly sensed weakness. They fired timidly at first, then the sheep not wanting to be dropped from the establishment’s cocktail party invite list unloaded their entire clip, firing without taking aim their distortions and falsehoods. Now they are left exposed by their bylines and handles. But surely they had killed him off. This is the way it always worked. A lesser person could not have survived the first few minutes of the onslaught. But out of the billowing smoke and dust of tweets and trivia emerged Gingrich, once again ready to lead those who won’t be intimated by the political elite and are ready to take on the challenges America faces.

Okay- so that was just a leeetle bit over the top and more than a few people lampooned it at the time.

See  @rdbrewer at AoSHQ for the delightful  comic strip adaptation: Campaign Press Statements are themselves jaunty poetry.

And even though Stephen Colbert is a jerk, having John Lithgow perform a dramatic reading of the Gingrich press release on his show,  was an inspiration. (You can watch the video at the link.)

And yet —

...what did happen in South Carolina? Out of the billowing smoke and dust of tweets and trivia emerged Gingrich, once again ready to lead those who won’t be intimidated by the political elite and are ready to take on the challenges America faces!

Damn straight.

Looks like Rick Tyler is having the last laugh on that one.

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Now here is something to chew on:

Via The Other McCain, IBD: Gingrich Looking Churchillian In Political Comeback:

Leadership: A great debater. Politically polarizing. Prone to great error, but also prone to spectacular success. Steeped in history. Politically brilliant. Unorthodox. Audacious.

All these qualities were once used to describe Winston Churchill. Today, you might use the same words to describe Newt Gingrich. Sound absurd? Not when you think about it.

Churchill, like Gingrich, was a brilliant politician with a powerful sense of the occasion.

Sometimes prickly, often witty, but never dull, his career had lots of ups and downs — ranging from being blamed for the disastrous Gallipoli campaign in World War I to being credited as the father of the British welfare state — not exactly a compliment among conservatives, then or now.

Indeed, by Churchill’s own admission, “The Conservatives have never liked nor trusted me.” The same thing can be said of Gingrich, who has had a tortured relationship with the GOP’s conservative wing, to say the least.

And yet, when his nation called on him to lead in 1940, Churchill was ready — the right man for the right time. With America’s government under President Obama moving rapidly to the extreme left, Gingrich too might be the right man for the right time.

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