Robert Baron, 66, waits for U.S. Republican presidential candidate and former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich to arrive during a campaign stop at Dolphin Aviation in Sarasota, Florida January 24, 2012.
Posted on 01/25/2012 12:29:33 PM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
Willard “Mitt” Romney is now lashing out at Newt Gingrich because of the Georgian’s long history as a Reaganite, making the preposterous argument that Gingrich was not present during one of the most important eras in American history.
The question is how would Romney know? When given the opportunity to talk about his conservative credentials in his run for Senate in 1994 he denied Reagan saying "I was an independent during the time of Reagan-Bush. I'm not trying to return to Reagan-Bush."
From the beginning of his political career, Gingrich was always at the ramparts as a staunch ally of the Reagan White House, from tax cuts to anti-communism to Federalism to pro-life and in all manner of great fights in that decade of Great Debates.
Petulantly, Romney is running commercials in Florida childishly saying that Reagan only mentioned Gingrich in his diaries once. But that’s one more time than Mitt was mentioned. Romney’s newest ad is in character, while denying Reagan and the ideals of the conservative movement, he seeks to falsely accuse someone who has been a leader in that movement for 30 years. While Reaganites are about ideas and the expansion of freedom, Romniacs are about the destruction of opponents and the contraction of ideas.
Romney intentionally takes Reagan’s comments about Gingrich out of context. The Gipper was actually intrigued by Gingrich’s ideas and later amended his across the board freeze in government spending to exclude national defense.
Conservatives like Reagan and Gingrich and Kemp were all strategic, all philosophical. Liberals like Romney and President Obama and Saul Alinsky are all tactical, all anti-intellectual.
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Thanks for another great article!
This is a great article. I am currently reading Craig Shirley’s book on the 1980 campaign “Rendevous with Destiny”. It really is amazing how similar the two elections are in many ways. Hopefully, like in 1980, we will see a conservative beat a mushy, believe-in-nothing moderate!
Go Newt!
This article will not see the light of day on Drudge or on Glenn Beck. GO NEWT GO!
Craig Shirley should be authoritative—he was in the trenches, running the Young Americans for Freedom office in Los Angeles during the 1970’s.
“This article will not see the light of day on Drudge or on Glenn Beck”
Doesn’t matter, we Floridians get the articles from the Sun-Sentinal in local news papers through out the state.
This Floridian just decided today he was supporting Newt. I was up in the air for Santorum but I want to do my part in keeping Romney out of the general election.
When Gingrich did all he did in the Congress Romney was a “RAT”..
Probably still is a rat..
You can take the democrat out of the party but its damned hard to remove the democrat from the democrat..
All democrats and almost all ex-democrats have no idea that democracy is a BAD THING.. a filty thing..
Democracy was, is and always will be Mob Rule by mobsters..
America is a Republic NOT a democracy..
The US Constitution has the word democracy nowhere in it... ON PURPOSE..
America is NOT a DEMOCRACY on purpose..
From the beginning of his political career, Gingrich was always at the ramparts as a staunch ally of the Reagan White House, from tax cuts to anti-communism to Federalism to pro-life and in all manner of great fights in that decade of Great Debates.
so he is claiming stuff that people who worked for and with reagan are denying
I hope the Gingrich team exploits to the maximum the angry Romney denying Reagan and insisting he was an independent during the Reagan years.. the man looked like he was disgusted to even hear the mention of Ronald Reagan.. I’d run that ad all over the place
This is why we SHOULD NOT elect a RINO....Mitt, go back to being an independent... with REPUBLICANS like you who needs DEMS...
From the beginning of his political career, Gingrich was always at the ramparts as a staunch ally of the Reagan White House, from tax cuts to anti-communism to Federalism to pro-life and in all manner of great fights in that decade of Great Debates.
so he is claiming stuff that people who worked for and with reagan are denying
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Of course Reagan’s son Michael has endorsed Gingrich he knows more about his Father and Gingrich that whatever establishment political hacks your citing.
The other problem with your BS is that a lot of us are old enough to remember who was doing what in the 70’s and 80’s.
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