little - known fact : when president obama unveiled his new slogan , " winning the future , " he ripped off newt gingrich .
we ’ll win the future .
here 's the front page of gingrich 's presidential campaign website , newt.org : i asked gingrich 's 2012 campaign how the former speaker feels about obama ripping him off so egregiously .
since then , the group has operated as gingrich 's main political arm .
what most folks do n’t realize – and the atlantic deftly discovered today – is that newt gingrich , whose campaign only launched this week , actually registered “ american solutions for winning the future ” with the irs under section 527 of the tax code on october 6 , 2006 .
in october of 2006 , gingrich registered a new political group with the irs under section 527 of the u.s. tax code : american solutions for winning the future .
in fact , he 's using it to campaign against obama .
life - long presidential hopeful newt gingrich launched his latest candidacy with the slogan : “ win the future .
but it 's cool , his campaign says .