Monday, June 20, 2011

“My campaign consultants understood 30-second attack ads. They didn’t understand you could actually write a book with big ideas and actually campaign talking about big ideas.”

Newt Gingrich strikes back - Politico
“I wanted to run an idea-oriented, grass-roots, solutions-based campaign that used Facebook and YouTube and all sorts of exciting things,” Gingrich told Fox News host Greta Van Susteren. “And we had a couple staff members who wanted to run a 1952 campaign that I thought was hopeless and couldn’t possibly win.”