Unless you used to live in Sacramento, that is simply not possible.
I did not agree with Rush, he and you were wrong to choose Romney in 2008/
So... you supported McCain over Romney? Is that what you're telling me?
that false Abrams story
The Abram's story is not "false"... it IS mis-leading. Especially, with two of the quotes that are Newt quoting other people... but, they were people that Newt AGREED with... so, it's not really such a stretch.
If the race this year comes down to Newt and Mitt, I will have NO TROUBLE picking my candidate.. and, it won't be Mitt. But, we're not there.. just yet.
You led us to believe you have been listening to Rush since 1989.
Being in California and an independent, I didn’t vote in the primary, but I would never have voted for Romney, and I never will, meaning that anyone is better than Romney, not just Fred Thompson, but after him, McCain and Huckabee in 2008.
If you were trying to defend Romney in 2008, then you got an earful here at FR.
Abrams story was a hit piece delivered by Rush on bloody Thursday to bump off Newt. Rush knew he was lying on Thursday with that phony hit piece, and he mocked us while doing it.
RUSH: You know, every time I mention a blogger, it doesn’t matter what blog site I cite, other bloggers send me e-mails saying they’re phonies, they’re creeps. The hatred in the blogger community is funny. Sometimes I’m hesitant to mention bloggers ‘cause I don’t like getting e-mails, “That blogger, he’s a phony, he’s a thief, that was mine first, everybody steals.” But I’ve got a blog here, guy named Dan Riehl. He claims that the video of Newt bashing Reagan is bogus, this 1988 audio that we played of Newt saying that Reagan’s wrong.
Here’s the little blog post. “There’s a short excerpt of a 1988 C-SPAN video purportedly showing Newt Gingrich bashing Reagan when talking about how Bush, Sr. should run” his campaign, should not run as more Reagan, but do something new. Riehl writes, “As I suspected, it’s edited to give a false impression. What you don’t see is immediately after when Gingrich praises Reaganism and the Reagan platform. If you can’t watch it all, it begins at about 2:30 in to confirm it’s the same segment. It’s the minute or two afterward you also need to hear to understand that Newt wasn’t bashing Reagan at all. He was merely saying, Bush isn’t Reagan and the GOP needs something new to sell.”
So I knew something like this was gonna happen. It’s not really that it’s been doctored, but that it has been selectively chosen from. So I sent it up to Cookie ‘cause I can’t listen to it, I didn’t have the time to listen it. Cookie said, “Look, this thing is an hour long. I’m sure he praises Reagan at some point or another, but I wouldn’t say it’s doctored.” So my expert says it’s not doctored. The blogger says it’s been selectively edited or chosen. So I just wanted to get it out there. I think Cookie is protesting having to listen to an hour of Newt, basically, in order to find — (laughing) — what I asked her to find. He-he-he-he-he-he.
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RUSH: Cookie is defiant. She’s giving me a minute and a half after of the Newt bite and she’s insistent that nobody’s doctored this and nobody’s changed — and I’ve read the transcript, that’s true. Newt still says look, the eighties were great but we gotta look forward, people — people care about the future, da-da-da-da-da. He praises Reagan in the bite, which the first — the — the excerpted bite doesn’t include any of but it doesn’t change the fact that while praising Reaganism, he still says to George Bush, you — you’re wasting your time if you campaign on Reaganism. Nobody wants more of the past. We want to look forward, nothing changes about that. So the — the Cookster was right.
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