I Spent the Weekend Playing Golf with Trump and Watching Football,

RUSH: Good grief. I didn't even have the television on over the weekend and I -- (interruption) no, for football I had it on. Well, barely for that. I was in Dallas, and I went to the Cowboys-Giants last night and I went out to dinner at Nick and Sam's on Saturday night. I didn't watch the debate, and I watched a little football on Sunday before we went to Cowboys stadium, but I got the sound bite roster here, and, again, I'm all over it. I'm being blamed for all kinds of stuff again. I'm being blamed for Newt. I'm being blamed for the lousy Republican field. I'm being blamed for everything. It happened all over the Sunday shows. (interruption) I don't know. I haven't listened to these. I just now got the transcript of all the sound bites.

And David Frum: "Rush Limbaugh killed my TV career, is responsible for lousy GOP field." It then says: Rush Limbaugh's the reason the GOP field is weak. See, I told you so. Obama thinks he's above the job, above the country, I said that. We've got a couple sound bites here from Jon Meacham and Mike Barnicle, who say that Obama feels America is not commensurate with his gifts. So I was right about that. Liberal reporter: Rush Limbaugh, tribal leader. State-Run Media spends all weekend talking about Rush and Newt. I can't escape it. I wasn't bothering anybody. I didn't do anything over the weekend. I was out of sight, out of mind. I mean I met a lot of people over the weekend but I wasn't involved in this stuff.

I played golf with Trump on Saturday at Trump International here. He and I played in the Trump International member-guest -- or member-member, actually, I'm a member of the place, it was a member-member, and Trump and I won it. We won the thing. I had to skedaddle outta there. We teed off at 8:30, the shotgun started at 8:30, we teed off, for a tournament, this was lickety split. A four-hour round, but we finished five or ten minutes before everybody else did and Trump was convinced that we had won so he posed with pictures of the trophy. We just went and grabbed the trophy, we took some pictures holding the trophy, and he gave me the trophy, and I drove away. I had to go home, get ready, get on the airplane, go to Dallas. (interruption) No, he wasn't wrong, there was a lot of trophies, by the way, because there's a lot of different places you can finish. So I got an e-mail from a friend yesterday, "I understand you won the member-member with Trump and that you carried the team." Well, I don't know about that, but the word spread. So indeed we did win it and Trump shot like a 70 or 71. And I know you're all wondering, I tried.

I tried to discuss the debate. He wasn't interesting in talking much politics. We talked a few minor things, some people, a little bit about Obama, some of the people in the Republican field, and he did say that it was curious, "All these people are calling, wanting my endorsement, and they won't show up at this debate." He said, "I gotta praise Newt. I mean Newt's the first guy that shows up. He's got guts; he's got courage. Santorum." I tried to engage him a couple times, and all he wanted to talk about was how great his golf course was. (imitating Trump) "It's the best. You ever seen a hole that's this beautiful? There's not a golf course in the world that's got a hole that looks like this, am I right, am I right?" I tried, folks, but he doesn't know. He doesn't know. I asked him, "Are you still gonna..." "I don't know." He said he didn't know what he was gonna do with the debate. Really. Really.

I mean, I expected when I got the invitation to play, I expected that there was gonna be a lot of politics discussed. There wasn't very much at all. It was strictly about golf, you know, stories about some of the people we were playing with. It was what it was. And we won. That's the first time I'd played in like six weeks. Maybe longer. I was actually hitting the ball pretty well now and then. I would not have scored great if it was just me on my own, but, you know, best ball out of the four. We did play pretty well. I don't think Trump ever loses these things, though, if he wants to win them, when you boil it all down.

Anyway, folks, how are you? I hope you had a great weekend. We were in Dallas over the weekend, went back to Nick and Sam's. It's just a great restaurant steakhouse atmosphere. It's where we had our Super Bowl party last year when the Steelers played the Packers, and then went the game last night, and we left to fly home mid-third quarter which is what we always do, and we watched the rest of the game and what a finish it was. Snerdley is depressed. Snerdley thought the game was in the bag, he's a big Cowboy fan and he came in today asked me, "Did you stay for the whole game?" And I really rubbed it in, I said, "You had to be so excited. I mean, what a game for you," acting like he won it, I was.
Anyway, let's get some of these audio sound bites, since I've told you about them. I mean I've got a lot of stuff in the stacks of stuff here today to get into but let's start with the audio sound bites.

Let's go Friday night on NBC. The guest on the show is political correspondent Steve Kornacki from Salon.com and they're having a discussion about the Republican primary and me, and the question: "Do Republican honchos hold sway over Republican voters anymore?"

KORNACKI: Look what a guy like Rush Limbaugh, who I think has absolute credibility with this exorcised Republican base and what did he spend this week doing? He spent this week making this a tribal test for his listeners. "Hey, anybody who's out there trashing Newt Gingrich right now, they're not one of us. You don't have to listen to anything you say. If you're part of our tribe you're gonna ignore them," and with that going on, there's a new establishment, I think.

RUSH: Oh. So I am the new tribal leader. I've once again gone from being a worthless entertainer, now I'm a tribal leader again, not just a leader but a tribal leader, and not only that, I am the leader of the new establishment. The Republican establishment has been beat back, it's been beat down and it's now me, and I'm leader. This guy has mischaracterized. You people that heard the programs last week, Mr. Kornacki here has mischaracterized it probably because he didn't hear it himself. Even if he did, you have to have a certain degree of open mind to understand what I was talking about. I was not promoting Newt. I haven't chosen anybody yet. What I was pointing out was who the Republican establishment doesn't want and why. And what I was pointing out was how the Republican establishment, both media and elected people, power brokers in the party, have decided to totally redo the formula in selecting a nominee.

Normally what happens is you have a nominee, all the nominees in the primary tried to secure the base which means in our case, case of conservatives, you move to the right, you're pretty steady about it. Then after you get the nomination then the presumption is that to win the general you need more voters than just your base so you move back toward the center a little bit. All this is strategic to pick up undecideds, independents, moderates, and what have you. What I pointed out was that what the Republican establishment is trying to do is obviate this whole process and get a moderate chosen from the get-go by splitting the conservative vote in the primaries. That's all I said. And no matter where you look, we've had Perry be up, we've had Bachmann up, we've had couple of others up. Now it's Newt's turn to be the anti-Romney. And right now Newt appears to be the most solid anti-Romney.

But I also said last week I gave some advice to Romney, I said, "Mitt, if you want to win this, flip full fledge to the right, get to the right of Newt, it's possible to do that, it isn't too late, get to the right of Newt and wrap this up." He's not listening to me. I don't expect him to. This is the big thing. This is the thing these guys don't understand. I do not do this program with the expectation that these candidates are gonna listen to me. I do not do this program with the hope that they listen to me. I do not have that kind of ego. I'm not in their business. I am a radio guy. I am happy to give them advice, but I don't expect them to follow it.

Why? 'Cause I'm not in their business. I wouldn't let them tell me how to do this radio show, for example. They don't know the first thing about it. (interruption) No, Snerdley, don't... This is very important. I don't want you people to misunderstand something. I am not just offering all that I say randomly and with no purpose. I don't want you to think that. The program is about you. I'm being honest about what I genuinely think. I'm talking about them, not me. I don't expect these people to take my advice. In fact just the opposite, if you want to know the truth -- especially when you're talking about the Republican establishment. I'll illustrate it another way.

You probably figure -- you, in the audience, probably think -- that I am invited to attend a lot of things where there are political professionals in attendance. Consultants, pollsters, people of that type, even elected officials; and you're right, I am invited. What you don't know is that I never go. Because it's a waste of time. A, I know what they're gonna say and do; and, B, I know they're not interested in what I'm going to say. Pure and simple. I don't take this personally, don't misunderstand. None of this bothers me in the slightest. But these guys on the left, like this Kornacki guy and all these others, they think all these people are hinging on every word I say and I've become the de facto leader of the new establishment and so forth, and all these Republicans are doing what they're doing or not doing what they're not doing because of me.

While that may well be true (I don't know) it still is not the express purpose of what's going on here. Now, folks, I'm gonna tell you something: If I took personally whether politicians listen to me or not, I would be in a straitjacket in a very small room with padded walls ten years ago. I woulda gone nuts. I learned long ago not to allow my expectations to get away from me, certainly not to have unrealistic ones. So I do what I do here and I say what I say; You and I know that it's right, but when I say, "Mitt, you got room to the right of Newt; go there," I know he's not gonna do it. That's not the strategy. I know what they're trying to do. They're trying to wrap up this nomination with a moderate, from the beginning to the end. They don't want to flirt with a conservative, and that's why they're ticked off at Gingrich and that's why they're afraid of Gingrich. But last I checked I haven't endorsed anybody. But they're assuming now -- because they don't know how to listen to this, they don't know how to take in context what happens, they're assuming because of last week -- that I've endorsed Newt, which I haven't done. Here, give you an example. We have a montage, State-Controlled Media, all weekend talking about me and Newt.

REPORTER: Rush Limbaugh believes the more party regulars attack, the stronger Gingrich gets.

REPORTER: They had a rough patch earlier this year. It's almost like old times now listening to Rush (snicker) talk about Newt.

REPORTER: Rush Limbaugh has come out and said they told us who to vote for last time. Don't let them tell you who to vote for this time.

REPORTER: When Newt Gingrich came out and said that the Paul Ryan plan was "right-wing social engineering," Rush Limbaugh all but flayed him alive.

REPORTER: First I listened to Rush Limbaugh, I thought he was actually lining up against Newt here. As I look at it, I think in fact he's rolling over Romney here and would prefer to see Newt.

RUSH: So they're throwing it up against the wall, hoping something will stick, without the slightest idea how to interpret what's going on. Is there anybody more plainspoken than I am? I don't speak in codes. I don't. It's three hours, unscripted every day. (interruption) What was your question, Snerdley? (interruption) Right. (interruption) I don't know. (interruption) Well, I can't explain these people. When I think Newt or anybody else wrong, I call them on it; and when I think they do something right, I praise it. Look, it is a backhanded compliment in a way, but the news media can't believe that the candidates don't listen to me. They think they do. I know they don't.

But they think they do -- and even after I'm saying this, it won't matter. (interruption) Ah, they listen, but... (sigh) Look, they're gonna listen to a consultant ten times more than they'll listen to me, and they'll read polling data far more than they'll listen to me. Folks, I don't want to get off track here, but all I'm telling you is that doesn't bother me in the slightest. These people in the media get all hepped up about it. Here's David Frum. He was on Reliable Sources Sunday morning with Howard Kurtz. He's a former Bush speechwriter, former conservative, in fact; and during a discussion of his "television career" and me, Howard Kurtz and David Frum have this little exchange.

KURTZ: A couple of years ago in Newsweek you said the Republicans would regret ceding so much power to Rush Limbaugh. What happened too your television career after you wrote that?

FRUM: Oh, I used to do (snicker) a lot of Fox TV (snicker) and, ummm, every once in a while I would get a call from Fox booking me for a show after that and an hour later I would hear quickly back -- I'd always say yes even if I couldn't do it just to... for the game of it -- "We're going in another direction."

KURTZ: How was the Republican Party "ceding power to Rush Limbaugh"? He has a very popular radio show it happen that doesn't mean that he is running the GOP.

FRUM: How did the field get so weak? (gasp) That wasn't an accident. They chose not to run because one way or the other they understood that they would be unacceptable. The talent pool got constricted and even those who do run who do have the talent somebody like Mitt Romney who's good at running things, he has to reinvent himself as something he is not.

RUSH: All right, so you see what I'm talking about here. I'm minding my own business basically having a football and golf week and I get here on Monday find out I destroyed David Frum's TV career because Fox no longer asks him to come on after he wrote a really irresponsible and wrong piece on me in Newsweek; and then I'm responsible for gutless Republicans staying out of the nomination race. They're afraid of me. I'm the reason for the weak field (laughing) ccording to the Frum. By the way, Kurtz's first question, "A couple of years ago in Newsweek you said Republicans would regret ceding so much power to Rush Limbaugh.

What happened to your TV career after you wrote that?" What kinda question is that? How does Kurtz know what happened to his career? Did Frum say, "Hey, I want you to ask me a question: Look, my TV career really blew up; I need you to ask me about that so I can answer it"? Or has Frum written about it somewhere that Kurtz saw? What kinda question is that anyway? What happened to your TV career after you wrote about Rush Limbaugh? Why would anybody want to admit that? Why would somebody want to admit that I destroyed their TV career? (laughing) He's on CNN so it is destroyed, but why would you want to admit that I could do that?

"Rush dwells,rent free, in their heads. .."

He lives rent-free in the heads of liberals who call themselves, "conservatives" because when he describes how liberals think, they secretely recognize themselves, but that's not something they can bring themselves to face publically. :) bttt

Rush: "What I pointed out was that what the Republican establishment is trying to do is obviate this whole process and get a moderate chosen from the get-go by splitting the conservative vote in the primaries. That's all I said. And no matter where you look, we've had Perry be up, we've had Bachmann up, we've had couple of others up. Now it's Newt's turn to be the anti-Romney. And right now Newt appears to be the most solid anti-Romney. .....

"I know what they're trying to do. They're trying to wrap up this nomination with a moderate, from the beginning to the end. They don't want to flirt with a conservative, and that's why they're ticked off at Gingrich and that's why they're afraid of Gingrich. But last I checked I haven't endorsed anybody. But they're assuming now -- because they don't know how to listen to this, they don't know how to take in context what happens, they're assuming because of last week -- that I've endorsed Newt, which I haven't done. ....

"So they're throwing it up against the wall, hoping something will stick, without the slightest idea how to interpret what's going on. Is there anybody more plainspoken than I am? I don't speak in codes. I don't. It's three hours, unscripted every day. ....When I think Newt or anybody else wrong, I call them on it; and when I think they do something right, I praise it. Look, it is a backhanded compliment in a way, but the news media can't believe that the candidates don't listen to me. They think they do. I know they don't. ....

...Is there anybody more plainspoken than I am? I don't speak in codes. I don't. ..."

That's FOR SURE!("Obama is a communist...")

And based upon recent events (see above link), it appears as if Newt IS listening to Rush's advice. :) If so, I hope it lasts. We'll see.

“Now it’s Newt’s turn to be the anti-Romney. And right now Newt appears to be the most solid anti-Romney. .....
“I know what they’re trying to do. They’re trying to wrap up this nomination with a moderate, from the beginning to the end. They don’t want to flirt with a conservative, and that’s why they’re ticked off at Gingrich and that’s why they’re afraid of Gingrich. But last I checked I haven’t endorsed anybody. But they’re assuming now — because they don’t know how to listen to this, they don’t know how to take in context what happens, they’re assuming because of last week — that I’ve endorsed Newt, which I haven’t done. ....
“So they’re throwing it up against the wall, hoping something will stick, without the slightest idea how to interpret what’s going on. Is there anybody more plainspoken than I am? I don’t speak in codes. I don’t. It’s three hours, unscripted every day. ....When I think Newt or anybody else wrong, I call them on it; and when I think they do something right, I praise it.”

Rush spoke at some length at the end of his show today in response to a caller about Mitt Romney’s position on Climate Change, stating he doesn’t trust Romney on this topic, the flip flop argument. Funny how Rush didn’t mention Newt Gingrich’s various flip flop positions on the topic of climate change, and as he wouldn’t call Newt on his various positions with regard to climate change, I will do the job that Rush seems incapable of doing. He saves all of his venom for Mitt and has none left over for Newt. See below for Newt’s direct quotes on Climate Change over the years:

Newt Gingrich & Climate Change

“I think everyone who follows politics and many who don’t have seen this video:

Global warming and climate change leader? Not so fast.

I actually just noticed, while sitting paused on this line to search for some quotes on how Gingrich has changed, a wonderful post on this matter over on Think Progress. Brad Johnson lays out exactly how Gingrich has flipped and flopped. I love this line: “Gingrich’s positions on global warming and federal climate policy have twisted in the wind over more than two decades, with his positions mostly coinciding with whether the party holding the presidency is a Republican or a Democrat.” Anyway, no need to go dig up each quote anymore — here’s the bulk of Johnson’s piece:

FLIP
1989: Rep. Newt Gingrich (R-GA) co-sponsors the ambitious Global Warming Prevention Act (H.R. 1078), which finds that “the Earth’s atmosphere is being changed at an unprecedented rate by pollutants resulting from human activities, inefficient and wasteful fossil fuel use, and the effects of rapid population growth in many regions,” that “global warming imperils human health and well-being” and calls for policies “to reduce world emissions of carbon dioxide by at least 20 percent from 1988 levels by 2000.” The legislation recognizes that global warming is a “major threat to political stability, international security, and economic prosperity.” [H.R. 1078, 2/22/1989]

FLOP
1992: Gingrich calls the environmental proposals in Al Gore’s book Earth in Balance “devastatingly threatening to most American pocketbooks and jobs.” [National Journal, 9/5/92]

1995: Gingrich’s budget shuts down climate action, killing the U.S. Congress Office of Technology Assessment, NASA’s Mission to Planet Earth program, and NOAA global warming research. Carl Sagan asks, “Is it wise to close our eyes to a possibly serious danger to the planetary environment so as not to offend such companies and those members of Congress whose reelection campaigns they support?” [Los Angeles Times, 7/16/95]

1996: At a speech for the Detroit Economic Club, Gingrich mocks “Al Gore’s global warming,” citing “the largest snowstorm in New York City’s history”: “We were in the middle of budget negotiations; the football games were coming up and we noticed on the weather channel that an early symptom of Al Gore’s global warming was coming to the East Coast. And it does make you wonder sometimes, doesn’t it, how theoretical statisticians in the middle of the largest snowstorm in New York City’s history could stand there and say, ‘I don’t care what it’s doing. It’s going to get very hot soon.’” [FDCH Political Transcripts, 1/16/96]

FLIP
1997: As Speaker of the House, Gingrich co-sponsors H. Con. Res. 151, which notes carbon dioxide is a “major greenhouse gas” that comes from “products whose manufacture consumes fossil fuels” and calls on the United States to “manage its public domain national forests to maximize the reduction of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.” [H. Con. Res. 151, 9/10/1997]

2007: Gingrich calls for a cap-and-trade system with tax incentives for clean energy. “I think if you have mandatory carbon caps combined with a trading system, much like we did with sulfur, and if you have a tax-incentive program for investing in the solutions, that there’s a package there that’s very, very good. And frankly, it’s something I would strongly support.” [Frontline,2/15/07]

In a debate on climate policy with Sen. John Kerry (D-MA), Gingrich says “the evidence is sufficient that we should move towards the most effective possible steps to reduce carbon-loading of the atmosphere,” and that we should “do it urgently.” [ThinkProgress, 4/10/07]

2008: In an advertisement made for Al Gore’s Alliance for Climate Protection, Gingrich sat with Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and said that “we do agree our country must take action to address climate change.” [We Campaign, 4/18/08]

FLOP

2008: Defending himself to his conservative base, Gingrich then rejects climate science: “I don’t think that we have conclusive proof of global warming. And I don’t think we have conclusive proof that humans are at the center of it.” [Newt.org, 4/22/08]

In a Washington Post chat, Gingrich rejects a cap-and-trade system, saying it “would lead to corruption, political favoritism, and would have a huge impact on the economy.” He says he supports “tax credits for dramatically reducing carbon emissions.” [Washington Post, 4/17/08]

In a later post, Gingrich says, “I do not know if the climate is warming or not.” He also rejects Warner-Lieberman, a cap-and-trade system with tax incentives for clean energy, as “leftwing”: “I disagree with leftwing solutions like Warner-Lieberman, which ignore the economic and national security implications of their attempts to protect the environment.” [Newt.org, 5/5/08]

“Last week, liberals in Congress voted for the equivalent of a $150 billion tax increase,” Gingrich wrote, of a decision to block oil shale development in Colorado. “The answer to high energy prices,” he said, is “so simple it could fit on a bumper sticker: Drill Here, Drill Now, Pay Less.” [Human Events, 5/20/08]

2009: In his appearance at the Conservative Political Action Conference, Gingrich attacks President Obama’s cap-and-trade proposal, claiming the president “mentioned in passing, using code words, so nobody would recognize it, he is for an energy tax.” [C-SPAN, 2/27/09]

In a Newsweek column, Gingrich calls Obama’s cap-and-trade proposal “anacross-the-board energy tax on every American.” [Newsweek, 4/4/09]

Gingrich’s 527 organization, American Solutions for Winning the Future (ASWF), launches an anti-cap-and-trade campaign. “I hereby petition Congress to reject any and all legislation (or regulatory action by the EPA) that would enact new energy taxes and/or establish a national cap and trade system for carbon dioxide that would, as President Obama has said, cause electricity and other energy prices to ‘necessarily skyrocket.’” [ASWF, 5/28/09]

2011: Gingrich proposes abolishing the Environmental Protection Agencybecause of its “attempts to regulate greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide, and thereby the entire American economy.” [ThinkProgress, 1/25/11]

On Fox News, Gingrich says: “I actually don’t know whether global warming is occurring.” [Fox News, 11/9/11]

Verdict? Well, I think this is an obvious one — either Gingrich has a secret twin who has opposite views on climate change or he flips and flops on the issue just to ride the waves of political power and dive in his hidden vault of gold coins.

Source: Planetsave (http://s.tt/14ADq)";

Newt Gingrich & Climate Change

“I think everyone who follows politics and many who don’t have seen this video:

Global warming and climate change leader? Not so fast.

FLOP
1992: Gingrich calls the environmental proposals in Al Gore’s book Earth in Balance “devastatingly threatening to most American pocketbooks and jobs.” [National Journal, 9/5/92]

FLOP

In a Newsweek column, Gingrich calls Obama’s cap-and-trade proposal “anacross-the-board energy tax on every American.” [Newsweek, 4/4/09]

On Fox News, Gingrich says: “I actually don’t know whether global warming is occurring.” [Fox News, 11/9/11]

Source: Planetsave (http://s.tt/14ADq)";

You wrote: “... Funny how Rush didn’t mention Newt Gingrich’s various flip flop positions on the topic of climate change, and as he wouldn’t call Newt on his various positions with regard to climate change, I will do the job that Rush seems incapable of doing. He saves all of his venom for Mitt and has none left over for Newt.”

Not so. Here’s just a little sample from my archives:

November 3, 2009

Top 10 Moderate GOP Moments: They All Lead to Our Losing and Democrats Winning
http://img.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_110309/content/01125112.member.html

Dick Nixon resigning, Ford-Dole ‘76, Bush-Quayle ‘92, Dole-Kemp, Specter and Jeffords switching, Colin Powell endorsing Obama, —————Newt holding hands with Pelosi, Scozzafava, -————McCain 2008. .....
Why do people in our party allow themselves to be defined, manipulated, flaked, formed, shaped, whatever, by these Democrats?” ‘Cause they appease them. They want to be liked. They want to be accepted where they live, in Washington, DC, and in New York.”

NOTE: Rush has talked about the Newt/Pelosi/Climate Change thing many times from 2009 on. (Google it)

Here’s more Newt “venom”:

Mon, 08 Jun 2009
Explaining Reagan to Newt: We’re Conservatives, Not Purists

Reagan attracted the moderates and independents. He didn’t pander. (Rush 24/7 Members: Listen)

“For the record, -——Newt and the rest of you in the Drive-By Media———, I’m not a ‘purist.’ I’m a conservative. Yeah, Reagan got a lot of independents and Democrats, but how? He didn’t pretend he was one of them! Colin Powell endorsed Obama at a strategic moment to harm McCain the most. If Powell is the model for the party, there’s no reason to ever vote Republican again.” -Rush

1/19/2009
http://johnhames.wordpress.com/2009/01/19/rush-in-a-hurry-rush-refuses-to-join-the-obama-cult/

Last Man Standing: -——Unlike Newt and many other Republicans, Rush refuses to drink the Kool-Aid -—— and join the cult of Obama. If you oppose Obama’s agenda to socialize America and change it for the worse, why shut up? (Rush 24/7 Members: Listen Here)

Monday, July 26, 2010
Conservatism Over Republicanism — The difference between Rush and Newt.
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2010/07/26/total_stack_of_stuff

September 14, 2010 The Limbaugh Rule: Vote for Most Conservative Candidate in Primary
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2815916/posts?page=193#193

RUSH: “.....Let me expand a little bit here on the Limbaugh Rule, which needs to take over from the Buckley Rule. You know, some of these people on our side — who all of a sudden now — lovingly invoke the Buckley Rule are the same people who told us, ——”The era of Reagan is over.”~ Newt Gingrich -—— Well, Bill Buckley and Ronald Reagan were inseparably good friends. Isn’t the era of Buckley over? Isn’t it amazing how selectively these people call up some of our heroes and use little slivers of what they’ve said or believed? Buckley ran against a RINO Republican for mayor of New York knowing full well he had no chance of winning. He violated his own rule then! “Buckley says you vote for the Republican most likely to win.” ...”

Wednesday, May 18, 2011
The Newt of the ‘80s Wouldn’t Get Tangled Up in This Mandate Mess
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2721974/posts?page=6#6

RUSH: “....Then it all came to fruition when we won the House in 1994 and all these guys are sworn in, and they’re in the leadership of the House of Representatives. And all of us familiar with what had gone on in the eighties, the special orders, we’d blown the place up with the House bank and the House post office. We had exposed that, some of the most profound corruption around on the Democrat side. And it seemed like there would be nothing stopping this conservative advance.

And then, fast forward to a couple, three years ago -———and Newt Gingrich is among those saying the era of Reagan is over-———, and I can’t tell you how that devastated me. The one man who was single-handedly leading a movement to defend Reagan to the American people, who understood Reaganism as much as Reagan did, the economics of it, the social issue side, cultural side. Somebody like Newt who had once been able to articulate from the heart all those things he was saying, to say that the era of Reagan was over, it did not compute with me, because it’s never been over as far as I’m concerned. ....”

November 23, 2011
Newt Says Let Illegals Stay, Drawing Raves from CNN Liberals for Having a Heart
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2011/11/23/newt_says_let_illegals_stay_drawing_raves_from_cnn_liberals_for_having_a_heart

“....You don’t just come up with idea after idea and throw your ideas out as policy. There’s a big difference in having an idea and having the idea become official policy.

This is what got Newt in trouble with the individual mandate. Out of the blue, “Oh, yeah, I think everybody ought to be forced to have skin in the game.” He probably hasn’t even thought about it, just off the top of his head, bammo, but it assumed it was official Newt policy. The same thing with global warming on the couch with Pelosi. Whatever the calculation was, it was of the moment. We’re talking about immigration. The fact is — and we’ve been over this countless times — you must first and foremost secure the border. Any non-enforcement approach is going to be a magnet. So, how would Newt do that? ....

.......Before we start talking about deportation or what to do with the people that are here and however long they’ve been here, we’ve got to secure the border. That remains the sieve. That remains the ongoing problem, national security problem, immigration problem. And so securing the border also means dealing with the pro-illegal alien lobby, and they’re big out there. A bunch of people who are pro-illegal alien who don’t want to secure the border.

So this has now become ———something that people are shooting at Newt at, which stands to reason, and I’m not criticizing anybody shooting at him for it.——— He’s put it out there, and he’s done it in a debate, first time anybody’s ever of heard of it now as a policy statement rather than idea. If Newt had said, “I have been thinking about this. One of the things I’m thinking about is,” and then mention this, “we have to think about it a little further,” it would be reacted to in an entirely different way last night and today. But the way he threw it out there, as full-fledged policy, -———okay, that means we can shoot at it.———— .....”

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