Newt Gingrich told a sold-out audience at the 31st Annual Prescott Bush Dinner Thursday night that Republicans can return as elected leaders at the state and federal levels by ”using the truth and common sense,” and embracing the mantle of reform.
“We are at a crossroads,” Gingrich told the 800 party activists, donors and elected leaders. “We will have an opportunity like no other time since Ronald Reagan.”
Gingrich said Republicans had to talk in common sense language to the American voters and to offer honest solutions to what kind of government and bureaucracies the people should tolerate. He used a slogan used by the Polish resistance in the 1970’s to Soviet domination “2 plus 2 equals 4″ which was a reference to the pattern of abuse written in the George Orwell novel - “1984.”
Gingrich said in 1984, if the state decides that 2 plus 2 equals 5, then it equals 5, or 3, “But it equals four,” said Gingrich. “Sort of like, if you can’t afford a house….”
The crowd responded, “then don’t buy it.”
The same was true for the $9 trillion in borrowing that is supposed to reinvigorate the economy, Gingrich argued:“Does anyone, anyone think borrowing $9 trillion dollars is going to do it?, giving it to a tired bureaucracy to manage and that will somehow fix our economy?” Gingrich ask
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