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Wednesday, December 21, 2011

Gingrich Bingo

Looking for a way to occupy time in the days between Christmas and the Iowa caucusesAs noted before, Newt Gingrich tends to favor certain words.  Using a Bingo generator (example here), one can devise Bingo sheets suitable for use during speeches, debates, and commercials.  Here's an example:


Politically-correct
Dramatically
Anti-American
Corrupt
Ronald Reagan
Grotesque
Entrepreneurial
Absurd
Centralized


Here are some of the many words that you can plug in:


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
Intensifiers:
  • Radically 
  • Dramatically
  • Fundamentally
  • Enormously
  • Extraordinarily
  • Vastly
  • Profoundly
Phrases and References:
  • A right to pursue happiness, not a right to 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