Former Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-GA) made a bold pronouncement Thursday during a visit to South Carolina: That Republicans don’t just have to win in 2012 — they have to win huge majorities.
The Myrtle Beach Sun News reports:
The midterm win wasn’t enough and Republicans need to aim for winning 40 more House seats and 12 or 13 more Senate seats in the next election, Gingrich said to a crowd at the Marina Inn at Grande Dunes.
“If you’re going to govern in 2013, you’re going to need a really large margin,” he said.
Note that a gain of 13 seats in the Senate would give Republicans 60 Senate seats — the same number that Democrats needed to enact health care reform and other major bills of the last Congress. Thus, they would be well positioned to repeal all those same laws, and go further with some of their own ambitious ideas.
(Via CNN.)
