(CNN) – Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich isn’t happy with the Republican National Committee.
In a letter addressed Tuesday to Mike Duncan, chairman of the RNC, Gingrich slams the committee for releasing a recent Web video that seeks to connect Obama to embattled Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich.
In a nearly three-minute spot entitled “Questions Remain,” the RNC seeks to raise questions about involvement by Obama or his staff in Blagojevich’s alleged plan to award Obama’s former Senate seat in exchange for political favors.
Gingrich calls the video a “destructive distraction” and asserts that the national committee “is engaged in the sort of negative, attack politics that the voters rejected in the 2006 and 2008 election cycles.”
Instead, “Republicans should be working to help the incoming president succeed in meeting” the “real challenges” the nation is facing, Gingrich writes to Duncan. When Republicans believe Obama is wrong, the GOP should “offer a better solution, instead of just opposing him,” Gingrich also wrote.
The letter ends with Gingrich’s suggestion that the RNC “pull the ad down immediately.”
Gingrich’s letter echoes recent comments from Obama’s former rival, Sen. John McCain. In a television interview Sunday, McCain also took issue with the video.
“In all due respect to the Republican National Committee,” McCain said, “right now, I think we should try to be working constructively together . . . on the economy stimulus package, reforms that are necessary.”
The RNC has not responded to CNN’s request for comment
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The RNC is pathetic
For an organization that likes to boast about it's sense of patriotism, the RNC is not demostrating much statesmanship. We need bridges, not wedges. They are going to have serious egg on their faces when it turns out that the president elects team is acting at the request of the prosecutors. Hey people, let's roll up our sleeves and get this country back on it's feet!
I'm not a Republican, but I have to say I've always admired Gingrich's willingness to but country before party. It's an admirable quality that more politicians need to exhibit.
Admirable behavior from him and from McCain. Thanks, boys!
No weapons formed against Barack shall prosper!!
i agree with mr.gingrich and mr.mccain. when i saw their comments regarding blago, my thoughts turned immediately...they're starting up again. they're pulling the same old stuff again. next they will be contacting
ken starr as they have in the past,unnecessarily spending taxpayers monies as they have in the past. the republican motto during the campaign was country first. I'm a registered democrat.i feel and i agree with mr.gingrich and mr.mccain. work with obama,help him. this country
must be put back to rights. barack obama is going to try to do this. don't
be rediculous. stop your planed disruptions. help him.
The republicans are sore losers, even after they gave the entire nation 8 years of loss for every family. The republicans need to just fade away. It's a new country, and they won't win with all their negativity.
The RNC is pathetic and childish. The election is over. The republicans need to work with Obama or they'll lose even more seats in the next election.
You lost get over.....time for the country to come together. HE IS YOUR PRESIDENT.
The RNC will never change. Those that remain in the now-inept RNC are Neanterthals that are incapable of adjusting to the changed political and economic landscape. Their mentality (or lack thereof) will doom them to repeating the same stupid blunders that got them where they are now - a burned-out, worthless and useless organization that has been reduced to ridicule by the general population and media.
The republican still do not get it. This is clear seeing what they did on the auto loan. They are only interested in power/special interest/right wing ideologies(no abortions/gay rights etc.). Until they change I hope they continue to get defeated at ever turn.
Makes me wonder how sincere Newt is. My question is, what's he up to?
The Republicans have caused enough of the country's problems and Gingrich's comments are correct. We are facing record job losses, staggering inflation, home foreclosures and the list goes on and on.
Instead of being so full of complaints (Lou Dobbs take note) try offering a solution once in a while. We are all in thie catastrophic mess together. We have got to find a way to move past the partisian quagmires.
ONE NATION
Wow...maybe guys like Gingrich actually get it once they leave office and their rage and their ambition subsides. It would be nice if the Republicans listen but I would be just as happy if they don't.
Give the voters another reason to kick more of them out in 2010.
Thanks Newt, from a Democrat who voted for Obama.
I think you see he (Obama) is really bi-partisan.
The RNC will never change. Those that remain in the now-inept RNC are Neanterthals that are incapable of adjusting to the changed political and economic landscape. Their mentality (or lack thereof) will doom them to repeating the same stupid blunders that got them where they are now - a burned-out, worthless and useless organization that has been reduced to ridicule by the general population and media.
RNC Jerks!! THEY STILL WANT TO DIVIDE AMERICA FOR POLICITCAL PURPOSES ONLY.
I am beginning to tire of Obama supporters...
in Biblical proportions...
Newt is absolutely correct . The RNC does not realize that the " Fat Lady Has Sung "......
The public wants , and demand that things be done for our country in a bi-partisian manner , immediatly if not sooner ....
Enough of the devisive politics of the past , we need cooperation from our leaders . The RNC , had better take heed , or they will be out in the cold for many years to come. ( which would be perfectly alright with me ) .......
Wow! For the first time in my life I actually agree with Newt Grigrich! This is scary! But on the other hand, he said “In all due respect to the Republican National Committee,” – there's something I can disagree on – the RNC neither has or deserves any respect.
The RNC is making the Republicans look worse than ever. We have serious economic problems and instead of working on those, the RNC continues to play games like little brats.
The Republicans would look a lot better if they would do some honest help instead of being seen as just spoiled kids only wanting their own way or no way. No wonder this country is in serious economic trouble!
The RNC sure does know how to WASTE MONEY
Newt, you can't teach an old party new tricks.
Heaven forbid they try and work with the president-elect...the RNC doesnt want to help this country – they just want to tear it down becausethey can't stand the idea of someone black, educated, and intelligent leading the way....
I agree on this. Should something crooked be found out it will surface in the wash later. Until that time we need to work on the more pressing issues facing this country. That goes for both sides.
When will they ever learn? This is exactly the reason that I crossed party lines this election and voted for Barack Obama. I was EXCITED to vote for him. If the RNC continues this divisive nature, then it may end up creating what I have hoped for: a truly viable three-party system.
If the moderates of the Republican party can wake up and walk out, that will cause the moderates of the Democratic party to join them, and then we'd have three real parties that have a good combination of ideologues and realists, and perhaps we can get back to civil discourse and govern by the people and for the people again.
Signed,
Eternal Optimist (I guess)
This perhaps the smartest I heard Gingrich say in a long time!
Instead of focusing on this stupid issue, the GOP need to be thinking about how they are going to save their party and progress their issues.