Newt Gingrich: A Thank You to My Readers

Newt Gingrich: Moving Toward Real Change

And as the summer of 2007 begins to draw to a close, I have the opportunity to do something that I’ve been meaning to do for some time now: To thank you, the readers, e-mail writers, activists and leaders of the Winning the Future movement.

Our motto, of course, is “Real Change Requires Real Change.” It has been a summer of real progress and real change. And the credit goes to you. I’ve always said that change doesn’t come from within Washington — it starts outside the beltway and then makes itself forcefully known among the Capital’s governing elite. That’s what happened in 1994, and that’s what I’m beginning to sense happening today.

On issue after issue, the American people are beginning to triumph over the power elite. No doubt, we have a lot more to do. But for the real change that we’ve accomplished so far, let me be the first to say simply “thank you” for making it all possible.

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Free the Gitmo Detainees

…no, not the Islamic mass murdering supremacists. The Cubans who are detained in the US Navy base in Guantanamo Bay and who are longing for escaping the Castroite Gulag to Freedom Land. They have not murdered Americans or Westerners. That’s why there’s no massive international outcry or mobilization on the part of the Left.

Twenty two Cuban political asylum seekers entered their second week of a hunger strike at Guantanamo protesting Washingon’s refusal to let them settle in the United States.