Do Republicans Get the Stakes, or Have the Guts to Fight?  Last
night, Sean Hannity and Newt Gingrich sat down to discuss the
former House Speaker’s new book, To Save America: Stopping
Obama’s Secular-Socialist Regime.  For the most part, the
conversation consisted of pretty standard fare for conservative
commentary: the Left’s ideas have failed, Barack Obama poses a
dire threat to the nation, and so on.  However, there were a
handful of highlights that warrant further consideration:
GINGRICH: Ronald Reagan proved that cutting taxes creates jobs.
He proved that believing in America leads people to be proud of
their country to do the right kind of things. He proved you
could defeat an evil empire and replace the Soviet Union. So by
the early 1990s I thought, you know, we’ve proven all the major
tenets of modern American conservatism. And it never occurred to
me that the hard left would just dig in, bury themselves in the
academic world and the news media and the labor unions. And now
have come back more left