Newt Lives on in Carol Marin

The liberal Sun-Times columnist Carol Marin ended her critical column of the Rev. and State Senate James Meeks with words I last heard from Newt Gingrich:

Words matter.

Marin is taking Meeks to talks for talking about “House” “N-word” in the political arena.

Even I know the people he is talking about. It’s the folks that kowtow to white politicians like Mayor Richard Daley. (Hope the word “kowtow” doesn’t offend anyone.)

They are the organization Democrats and there a lot more of them now than in the days of multi-member state representative districts.

In any event, State Rep. Bernie Pedersen was a great fan of Gingrich. During the late 1980’s and early 1990’s, he would send me Gingrich tapes. I concluded that Gingrich was truly one of the deeper thinkers in the Republican Party. He had a coherent vision that I have seen no other Republican articulate since then.

And, his theme was

Words count.

I am sure that led to the 1994 Contract with America, which led, of course, to the Republicans taking control of the United States House for the first time in my adult memory.

It just seems ironic to hear super-liberal Carol Marin echoing his words.

But, it does not seem strange to read Marin’s defending Chicago’s Establishment.

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Tha man who helped develop the concepts that Ginchrich propagated was Joe Gaylord. Gaylord grew up in Marengo, where I met him at a Young Republican funciton when he was home on vacation.

Besides being instrumental in developing the Contract for America, Gaylord wrote and recorded brillant campaign advice entitled, "Flying Upside Down." He is updating it.

McHenry County Circuit Clerk Bill Kays is a Marengo High School classmate of Gaylord.

Where else could you find that but on McHenry County Blog, where today you can learn how my political career began in the gutter.