The Gingrich Game

In time for the weekend debates, here is a new and improved list of Newt Gingrich's favorite words and phrases. With the list in hand, you can use a Bingo generator to produce a card like this:

Politically correct	Grotesque	Anti-Job	Basically	Academia
Vastly	Imagine	Transform	Profoundly	Radically
Nancy Pelosi	Dumb	Fundamentally	Empower	Unelected
Enormously	Choose	Anti-Family	Anti-American	Harry Reid
Reshape	Barack Obama	Change	Elite	Absurd

Or you may simply deploy the list for (non-alcoholic) drinking games. Either way, here are some of the many items that you can plug in:


Adverbs:

• Frankly
• Fundamentally
• Profoundly
• Basically
• Radically
• Dramatically
• Enormously
• Extraordinarily
• Vastly

Verbs

• Imagine
• Change
• Transform
• Reform
• Empower
• Replace
• Reshape
• Choose

Negative adjectives:

• Secular
• Socialist
• Grotesque
• Radical
• Absurd
• Sick
• Pathetic
• Corrupt
• Dumb
• Centralized
• Politically correct
• Left-wing
• Unelected
• Anti-family, anti-job, anti-American

Negative nouns

• Bureaucracy
• Welfare state
• Entitlement
• Big government
• Elite
• Machine (as in political machine)
• Hollywood
• Academia
• Union bosses
• Trial lawyers

Phrases and References:

• A right to pursue happiness, not happiness stamps.
• Bold colors, not pale pastels.
• Vision, strategy, projects, and tactics.
• Listen, learn, help, and lead.
• Any battle in the American Revolution or Civil War

Positive adjectives:

• Conservative
• Opportunity
• Entrepreneurial
• Transformational
• Solutions-oriented
• Pro-American

Heroes:

• Ronald Reagan
• Theodore Roosevelt
• Pope John Paul II
• Winston Churchill
• Abraham Lincoln

Villains:

• Jimmy Carter
• Bill Ayers
• Barack Obama
• Barney Frank
• Nancy Pelosi
• Harry Reid