Broderick Crawford

Newt's Jacksonian Revolution

Newt's Jacksonian Revolution"You are a den of vipers and thieves.

I have determined to rout you out, and by the Eternal, (bringing his fist down on the table) I will rout you out!"-- President Andrew Jackson in a February, 1834 meeting with Philadelphia financiers about his opposition to the creation of a central bank.The 68-year-old former speaker of the House, twice left as presidential road kill this cycle, won the South Carolina Republican primary in more commanding fashion than either of the two prior GOP nominees.He doesn't look, talk or act like any major party nominee since the dawn of the television era: too big, too bombastic, too old, too much baggage, too little discipline on the trail. But yet he outperformed George W. Bush , who was none of those things, in South Carolina, a state that has voted quite cautiously since it became "first in the South" in 1980.So what gives?There are two ways to win elections. The simplest is to find a way to win the support of the electorate...

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