70 Year Magazine Archive

On the Right

by Wm. F. Buckley, Jr.

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The vulnerabilities of Newt Gingrich are obvious. To begin with, he is the primary figure in Republican life. Second, he was the object of the sustained attacks of the Democratic machine during the entire campaign season.

His enemies were plainspoken in their designs: to incarnate in Gingrich all the vices it is possible to collect against the Republican movement. As we all know, every Democrat running for election or reelection to Congress was portrayed as running against not his local opponent, but Newt Gingrich.

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