Does Gingrich have a point for once regarding the state of presidential politics?

[draft_mario_cuomo]

Even a broken clock is right twice a day and he seems to be right on this.

==Newt Gingrich says the 2008 White House candidates are "demeaning the presidency" by focusing on the race rather than ideas, according to the AP.

Said Gingrich: "We have shrunk our political process to this pathetic dance in which people spend an entire year raising money in order to offer non-answers, so they can memorize what their consultants and focus groups said would work."==

http://politicalwire.com/archives/2007/05/17/gingrich_blasts_presidential_candidates.html

[Trisket-Bisket]

1. He invents the mess and now its bad.

I guess this pathetic dancer has been shuffed out.

[The Magistrate]

2. Well Said, Sir

Welcome to the forum.

Gingrich complaining about the state of political discourse and campaigning in this country is like a mugger complaining it is dangerous to walk the streets. The man did more to demean and debase our political life than anyone, including Lee Atwater. The man who circulated a poll-tested list of demaening terms to use on opponents andf their proposals has no standing at all to complain 'ideas' are not discussed: he himself has never discussed or propsed as piublic policy a single serious idea throughout his career.

"This pretense of not knowing what any idiot knows has increasingly come to dominate and define out political life."

[draft_mario_cuomo]

6. Obviously he is a hypocrite and a scumbag

However, he seems to be correct about the sad state of presidential politics. Elections should be about ideas, not dodging the issues with vague and generic poll-tested rhetoric. They should about visions, not platitudes. Elections should be about who will move America forward the most, not who has the best biography.

[Erika]

3. You listen to anything Newt says?

I don't.

[Awsi Dooger]

5. He's said some interesting things

One of them I've been thinking about lately:

"Never underestimate a Clinton."

[JI7]

4. he use to be Speaker of the House

did he do anything to fix those problems then ? or did he contribute to it ?