Posted on 01/27/2012 3:18:48 PM PST by Timber Rattler
We have witnessed something very disturbing this week. The Republican establishment which fought Ronald Reagan in the 1970s and which continues to fight the grassroots Tea Party movement today has adopted the tactics of the left in using the media and the politics of personal destruction to attack an opponent.
We will look back on this week and realize that something changed. I have given numerous interviews wherein I espoused the benefits of thorough vetting during aggressive contested primary elections, but this week’s tactics aren’t what I meant. Those who claim allegiance to Ronald Reagan’s 11th Commandment should stop and think about where we are today. Ronald Reagan and Barry Goldwater, the fathers of the modern conservative movement, would be ashamed of us in this primary. Let me make clear that I have no problem with the routine rough and tumble of a heated campaign. As I said at the first Tea Party convention two years ago, I am in favor of contested primaries and healthy, pointed debate. They help focus candidates and the electorate. I have fought in tough and heated contested primaries myself. But what we have seen in Florida this week is beyond the pale. It was unprecedented in GOP primaries. I’ve seen it before – heck, I lived it before – but not in a GOP primary race.
I am sadly too familiar with these tactics because they were used against the GOP ticket in 2008. The left seeks to single someone out and destroy his or her record and reputation and family using the media as a channel to dump handpicked and half-baked campaign opposition research on the public. The difference in 2008 was that I was largely unknown to the American public, so they had no way of differentiating between the lies and the truth. All of it came at them at once as “facts” about me. But Newt Gingrich is known to us – both the good and the bad.
We know that Newt fought in the trenches during the Reagan Revolution. As Rush Limbaugh pointed out, Newt was among a handful of Republican Congressman who would regularly take to the House floor to defend Reagan at a time when conservatives didn’t have Fox News or talk radio or conservative blogs to give any balance to the liberal mainstream media. Newt actually came at Reagan’s administration “from the right” to remind Americans that freer markets and tougher national defense would win our future. But this week a few handpicked and selectively edited comments which Newt made during his 40-year career were used to claim that Newt was somehow anti-Reagan, and isn’t conservative enough to go against the accepted moderate in the primary race. (I know, it makes no sense, and the GOP establishment hopes you won’t stop and think about this nonsense. Mark Levin and others have shown the ridiculousness of this.) To add insult to injury, this “anti-Reagan” claim was made by a candidate who admitted to not even supporting or voting for Reagan. He actually was against the Reagan movement, donated to liberal candidates, and said he didn’t want to go back to the Reagan days. You can’t change history. We know that Newt Gingrich brought the Reagan Revolution into the 1990s. We know it because none other than Nancy Reagan herself announced this when she presented Newt with an award, telling us, “The dramatic movement of 1995 is an outgrowth of a much earlier crusade that goes back half a century. Barry Goldwater handed the torch to Ronnie, and in turn Ronnie turned that torch over to Newt and the Republican members of Congress to keep that dream alive.” As Rush and others pointed out, if Nancy Reagan had ever thought that Newt was in any way an opponent of her beloved husband, she would never have even appeared on a stage with him, let alone presented him with an award and said such kind things about him. Nor would Reagan’s son, Michael Reagan, have chosen to endorse Newt in this primary race. There are no two greater keepers of the Reagan legacy than Nancy and Michael Reagan. What we saw with this ridiculous opposition dump on Newt was nothing short of Stanlin-esque re-writing of history. It was Alinsky tactics at their worst.
But this whole thing isn’t really about Newt Gingrich vs. Mitt Romney. It is about the GOP establishment vs. the Tea Party grassroots and independent Americans who are sick of the politics of personal destruction used now by both parties’ operatives with a complicit media egging it on. In fact, the establishment has been just as dismissive of Ron Paul and Rick Santorum. Newt is an imperfect vessel for Tea Party support, but in South Carolina the Tea Party chose to get behind him instead of the old guard’s choice. In response, the GOP establishment voices denounced South Carolinian voters with the same vitriol we usually see from the left when they spew hatred at everyday Americans “bitterly clinging” to their faith and their Second Amendment rights. The Tea Party was once again told to sit down and shut up and listen to the “wisdom” of their betters. We were reminded of the litany of Tea Party endorsed candidates in 2010 that didn’t win. Well, here’s a little newsflash to the establishment: without the Tea Party there would have been no historic 2010 victory at all.
I spoke up before the South Carolina primary to urge voters there to keep this primary going because I have great concern about the GOP establishment trying to anoint a candidate without the blessing of the grassroots and all the needed energy and resources we as commonsense constitutional conservatives could bring to the general election in order to defeat President Obama. Now, I respect Governor Romney and his success. But there are serious concerns about his record and whether as a politician he consistently applied conservative principles and how this impacts the agenda moving forward. The questions need answers now. That is why this primary should not be rushed to an end. We need to vet this. Pundits in the Beltway are gleefully proclaiming that this primary race is over after Florida, despite 46 states still not having chimed in. Well, perhaps it’s possible that it will come to a speedy end in just four days; but with these questions left unanswered, it will not have come to a satisfactory conclusion. Without this necessary vetting process, the unanswered question of Governor Romney’s conservative bona fides and the unanswered and false attacks on Newt Gingrich will hang in the air to demoralize many in the electorate. The Tea Party grassroots will certainly feel disenfranchised and disenchanted with the perceived orchestrated outcome from self-proclaimed movers and shakers trying to sew this all up. And, trust me, during the general election, Governor Romney’s statements and record in the private sector will be relentlessly parsed over by the opposition in excruciating detail to frighten off swing voters. This is why we need a fair primary that is not prematurely cut short by the GOP establishment using Alinsky tactics to kneecap Governor Romney’s chief rival.
As I said in my speech in Iowa last September, the challenge of this election is not simply to replace President Obama. The real challenge is who and what we will replace him with. It’s not enough to just change up the uniform. If we don’t change the team and the game plan, we won’t save our country. We truly need sudden and relentless reform in Washington to defend our republic, though it’s becoming clearer that the old guard wants anything but that. That is why we should all be concerned by the tactics employed by the establishment this week. We will not save our country by becoming like the left. And I question whether the GOP establishment would ever employ the same harsh tactics they used on Newt against Obama. I didn’t see it in 2008. Many of these same characters sat on their thumbs in ‘08 and let Obama escape unvetted. Oddly, they’re now using every available microscope and endoscope – along with rewriting history – in attempts to character assassinate anyone challenging their chosen one in their own party’s primary. So, one must ask, who are they really running against?
- Sarah Palin
You are right...the damage was done before the debate. Notice Blitzer didnt give Newt a chance to defend himself on that very issue. Rush claimed to be in a state of confusion yesterday. How do we beat the media on their “timed” smears?
Rush has been supporting Mitt since he ran last time, and the debate last night was all important to the Mitt supporters, that is what gave us “Bloody Thursday”, a day that will live in infamy.
Nonsense. I say that as a daily listener who did listen on Thursday. I will grant you that he did not condemn the claims utterly and out of hand, but he certainly was skeptical to the point of being dubious that the "quotations" attributed to Newt were not taken out of context. He cited Nancy's quote about Reagan having passed the torch to Newt, for example.I can understand that you would like Rush to go "all in" for Newt, and do it yesterday. But Rush and Palin are similar, IMHO, in respecting Newt's limitations without having much in the way of illusions about Romney. Rush cheered Santorum, for example, for raining all over Romney's suggestion that ObamaCare was nothing to be angry about.The idea that Rush has been pushing Romney is no better founded than the conceit that Newt was anti-Reagan back in the 80s. Both hogwash, one no more or less so than the other.
I listen to Rush’s entire show every single day and you are full of it. He has evenly dished out both kudos and criticism of all candidates. If he has been uneven in his criticism of any of them, it’s Ron Paul. You sound like one of those loons who hears a Rush comment out of context and third-hand and goes flying off the handle.
I expect to see Rush's Gulf Stream 550 on eBay tomorrow, if you are leaving his audience.
Who other than Rush who's occasionally walks among the powerful insiders, tells you how the Party Elite despise us?
Oh darn! It doesn’t work, but thank you very much anyway!!!
I know. It’ll be the damn yankees that moved South to Florida and brought their NorthEastern politics with them.
The establishment and their activists have decided to go scorched earth, slash and burn against the conservative base. They have partnered up with the liberal media to remove anyone who is remotely conservative and threatening to win the nomination.
Mark Levin bucks conservative media trend, comes to Gingrich’s defense
LOL, yeah, that's it, he is neutral (which if true, makes him a Romney supporter), except for Ron Paul.
Rush sure wasn't neutral on Bloody Thursday.
Isn’t it amazing how leftists destroy one state, and move to another state to help implement the same policies?
Off Topic: tatt, I swear, in both your posts and your tagline ... you are a FReeper after my own heart! :^)
Completely disagree...this is pure genius. How long does an endorsement really last? This way she can keep giving the endorsement...and if Newt goes off the deep end she can easily pivot to Santorum.
I hope that you were with us in the 2008 cycle as we hard core anti-Romney posters were fighting a losing battle, about the fact that Rush was supporting Romney.
‘’I think the one candidate of the three still out there on our side that matter... in saying who more closely embodies all three legs of this conservative stool, you’d have to say that it’s Mitt Romney. There’s actually no choice in the matter.’’ (Monday, Feb 4, 2008)
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_020408/content/01125109.guest.html.guest.html
“...national radio talk-show host Rush Limbaugh, who endorsed Romney on Tuesday [February 5, 2008]”
Newsmax - Feb 6, 2008
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Cannibal assumes RINOs and conservatives are the same species. This is false. The RINO is shares the same genus as the democrat.
As I said in my speech in Iowa last September, the challenge of this election is not simply to replace President Obama. The real challenge is who and what we will replace him with. It’s not enough to just change up the uniform. If we don’t change the team and the game plan, we won’t save our country. We truly need sudden and relentless reform in Washington to defend our republic, though it’s becoming clearer that the old guard wants anything but that. That is why we should all be concerned by the tactics employed by the establishment this week. We will not save our country by becoming like the left. And I question whether the GOP establishment would ever employ the same harsh tactics they used on Newt against Obama. I didn’t see it in 2008. Many of these same characters sat on their thumbs in ‘08 and let Obama escape unvetted. Oddly, they’re now using every available microscope and endoscope – along with rewriting history – in attempts to character assassinate anyone challenging their chosen one in their own party’s primary. So, one must ask, who are they really running against?
This week was “Newtbashingpoluzia” week.
I have to admit that thought has crossed my mind once or twice. Because this whole sack of crap is going to explode at some point. But I had never considered the GOP might be consciously trying to throw an election. It sure seems that way though.
YES! I watched the rush from the Easterners to Southern California. Those people brought their liberal politics with them and their bad driving.
Perhaps this little guy could help.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2838980/posts
Toddler Chews Head Off Snake
Sarah’s statement is brilliant. Mandatory reading.
I don't think anyone on FOX has endorsed, they just call it predicting.
The one who is not very humble will be gunning for you shortly.
Obviously, you listened to the same shows I did.
Others listened, too. But did not hear.
agree, Sarah get on the plane you and your husband and get down here now, we need you as the establishment put a establishment crowd last night, they are running AD’s all over here for Romney, I have not had one thing off Newt due to not enough money yet Romney is lying like mad here with his mail we are getting.
ANYONE PLEASE IF YOU KNOW ANYONE IN FLORIDA PLEASE CALL THEM AND TELL THEM TO GET OUT AND VOTE AND TELL THEM THAT THE ATTACKS ARE ALL LIES AND THAT ROMNEY IS NO BETTER THAN OBAMA
You’ll have to come up with a source that he is in Romney’s camp. I haven’t seen it.
I’ve seen support for Newt -
I also think that Sarah Palin will accept. Newt is 69 years old and may well decide to be a one-termer if he knows that Sarah is there to carry the flame of conservatism. Even if Newt is a two-term president, Palin will still be plenty young enough to run in 2020 and serve two terms on her own.
We would see a much different Sarah Palin than the one we saw in 2008. She will be battle-hardened and seasoned. With Newt, she will be able to run the kind of campaign she wanted to run four years ago but wasn't able to - because she was held back by the McCain people.
Could happen. But first, we need to get Newt nominated.
WoW, are you Mrs, Barbra Bush in real life?
Romney supporters are either ignorant to the fact Romney is big Govt and ran to the left of Ted Kennedy, voted for Dems, gave money to Dems , gave kick backs to the unions for the big dig in Boston the list is endless and they are not ignorant to all of this then they are either stupid or looking out for their own power etc like Drudge, Coulter, Rove etc
Well, there's more to come. I can put together an animated one, but working GUI's are hard to code in a FR post unless I have control over the CSS. I need to put some effort into coding a zot button you can just reach out and touch on your screen, eh?
That is what I think...Sarah, we need you so bad!
Don’t forget ABO...
Unfortunately you can't have both.
Yeh Sarah, you go girl!
Sarah said that?
For a start you can look at post 213.
I will never ever vote for Romney and the establishment has lost me forever for the way they have attacked a conservative and let in some wishy washy guy who has ran to the left for office, gave money to the left, voted for the left
I’m shocked to still find that republicans, well so called would ever vote for ROmney knowing what we do now.
Either they are the establishment or they are really stupid or they are sheep which sit there and think they are being told the truth.
Would you be among that bunch JAG?
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Santorum needs to do the right thing and drop out and endorse Newt.
(Little weasel will probably endose Mitt. Wouldn’t put it past him)
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Santorum:
Voted AGAINST increasing the number of immigration investigators:
http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=109&session=2&vote=00201
VOTED AGAINST HIRING AN ADDITIONAL 1,000 BORDER PATROL AGENTS, paid for by reductions in state grants.
http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=109&session=1&vote=00179
VOTED TO GIVE SOCIAL SECURITY BENEFITS TO ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS
http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=105&session=1&vote=00058
Voted to allow illegal immigrants to receive the earned income credit before becoming citizens.
http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=109&session=2&vote=00154
SANTORUM: Trim Social Security now- even if painful.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5j7O34Bpp42k-IlMMNiOLBkYF2zNw?docId=b1cff9ecefe24ca6ae1764a09761e361
VOTED AGAINST FOOD STAMP REFORM
http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=109&session=1&vote=00353
VOTED AGAINST MEDICAID REFORM
http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=109&session=1&vote=00352
Voted to increase the social services block grant from $1 BILLION to $2 BILLION
http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=106&session=1&vote=00302
VOTED TO RAID SOCIAL SECURITY instead of using surpluses to pay down the debt.
http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=106&session=2&vote=00056
Voted to impose a uniform federal tax mandate on states to force them to allow convicted , rapists, arsonists drug kingpins and all other ex-convicts to vote in federal elections.
http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=107&session=2&vote=00031
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Santorum; Big government spender:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zt6XCZz2X1Y&feature=player_embedded
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2087812/Rick-Santorums
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Santorum needs to put his ego aside, place his country before himself, drop out and go back to wherever he came from.
Rick Perry is twice the Conservative Santorum is!
He deserves the VP slot.
Since 2000 he has led the second largest state in the union on to be the most successful economically.
Perry stated that in his administration he would start all countries getting U.S. foreign aid at ZERO, until they proved to be our allies.
He was also the first to bring the war on religion to the forefront.
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She seems to have been a little more successful than you, unless you are a former Governor of course.
I like Rick a lot , and agree with virtually all he stands for but right now the race is between the establishment, Romney and his dumb sheep supporters and Newt and I cannot vote for a guy right now which looks to be stepping out and voting for third place.
I just hope that Rick and Newt has a sit down and soon and Rick states he will get out like Perry and he will get a lot of respect from many infact all conservatives and hopefully is rewarded off Newt for putting country and our future first.
Perry won my respect and admiration and if Rick does the same then game on, Romney looses FL my state and it gives Newt so much wind in his back.
I hope they do as I am fed up of the establishment and the RINO’s telling solid conservatives we have to give up some principles to accommodate them and their elitist pals
Did you misconstrue Rush’s show yesterday? Drudge has been fairly merciless, but Rush drew some stark contrasts.
When we went to bed Wednesday night, we were all ecstatic about this video which had just been posted here at FR, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ec_Nunb6izo and we thought that it would get on Rush and on Drudge and carry Newt over the top, and destroy the vicious attacks on him and Reagan, and put the wind at his back.
Instead this is what we woke up to, and Rush used his shiv with relish, he and Drudge were ready for us.
NANCY: The dramatic movement of 1995 is an outgrowth of a much earlier crusade that goes back half a century. Barry Goldwater handed the torch to Ronnie, and in turn Ronnie turned that torch over to Newt and the Republican members of Congress to keep that dream alive.
RUSH: Ronnie turned the torch over to Newt and the Republican members of Congress. Nancy Reagan. Now, she obviously didn’t know that Newt had been out there saying, “The era of Reagan was over” in 1988. If she’d-a known that she wouldn’t have said this. Here’s Newt Monday night in Tampa, he’s live on NBC. This is during the debate. Brian Williams said, “Mr. Speaker, you’ve been talking a lot about conservative principles in this campaign so far. Is that enough for you? Is that good enough to get you through here?”
GINGRICH: Look, I don’t want to spend my time commenting on Mitt. I’d like to just tell you that I started — I went to a Goldwater organizing session in 1964. I met with Ronald Reagan for the first time in 1974. I worked with Jack Kemp and Art Laffer and others to develop supply-side economics in the late seventies.
RUSH: Okay. That’s from the debate Monday night. Let’s go back to April 11th, 1988, a Washington news program, Newt Gingrich.
GINGRICH: I think this party in that sense is a very different party than it was, say, from the fights of the years of the Rockefeller/Goldwater process. A period in which, by the way, I was a Rockefeller state chairman in the South.
RUSH: Snerdley can’t believe it. (laughing) Snerdley’s mouth, his chin is on the desktop. (imitating Newt) “I tell you, I went to a Goldwater organizing session in 1964. I met with Reagan for the first time...” Both of these could be true. He could have gone to a Goldwater organizing session in ‘64, didn’t like it, and joined the Rockefeller campaign. But it does sound like back in 1988, I’ll say this — (interruption) Well, you got a debate tonight. It’s obvious they’re clearing the field for Romney. Back in 1988’s Newt’s making it plain he was a Rockefeller Republican. And, by the way, in 1988 that was your ticket to the establishment.
Remember, folks, the Republican establishment never liked Reagan. I know I say this over and over again. He didn’t like Reagan. He was Rockefeller’s state chair in 1968 in the South. In 1968, he was a Rockefeller state chairman, talks about going to a Goldwater meeting in ‘64. Remember, now, in 1988 the establishment was happy. They couldn’t wait to get rid of — in fact, Jeff Lord at American Spectator has written about some of the things that happened when the Bush 41 people showed up and took over the West Wing. They got rid of all the Reagan stuff. I forget the specifics. But in 1988 your ticket to the top of the GOP was to sign up for being a moderate. So at least best you could say maybe Newt was practicing opportunism there.
So that’s that. That’s the Newt stuff. It was kinder, gentler, the Bush 41 kinder, gentler. Thousand points of light. I was number 732, if you remember. I was number 732 of the thousand points of light. I even printed a certificate. I figured out how to use Pagemaker, so I printed my own certificate. I was number 732 out of a thousand points of light.
BREAK TRANSCRIPT
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.
BREAK TRANSCRIPT
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.
END TRANSCRIPT
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2012/01/26/coordinated_avalanche_against_newt_doesn_t_match_my_memory_of_reagan_years
Yes, you are hysterical.
Too bad you aren’t old enough to remember Ross Perot.
Sudden and Relentless Reform in DC is what Perry had and has planned. The momentum is there.
VA wants none of the sort, they took the threat so seriously they didn’t work to keep the ballot from reading only ROMNEY AND PAUL.
They can argue and defend all they want, but that’s what the ballot will read. Which is convenient if your voter, income and tax base gets its income from DC.
GOP-E: your going after the hearts and minds of TEA partiers is as stupid as you are. You only add fuel to the fire of rebellion, but keep it up! Stupid party.
I agree completely with that statement.
damn right we do
said this a few times but I’ll say it again incase you missed it pal.
I tried to get tickets for last night for my wife and I.
The Duval GOP lady told me that there is 3000 seats but only 800 to the public.
Seems the RNC took the 2,200 tickets and gave them out to who they think is best for Romney and the establishment, Then after last night it was very easy to spot they had done that.
Romney right after he debate said did you hear that crowd
Also the crowd clapped then Romney said Rick”no need to get angry”
The crowd clapped , HUH we’re talking about Govt health care which Romney put on the people of MA.
The crowd were mostly stooges from the establishment and yet again the establishment does their dirty tricks ot get their RINO
I am so pissed off.
How is it down their pal?
I;m up here and see nothing for Romney but I know you are down there with many more north east RINO’s
you got that right.
you forgot that attitude as well, “This is how we do it in bla bla” or “ It’s better like this because back in bla bla”
If it is so good then piss off.
Is Newt ANYone’s first choice? Seriously, I’m a reluctant supporter...but he’s far from my first choice.
For the record, I don’t care what Rush said in 2008 - has he endorsed Romney this year?
yes, they’re like cockroaches.
They move down here and then want laws like they had up there and then complain about it here because we don’t do things the same and then once they have ruined an area they move on to another beautiful part of the country.
From what I am told the west is the same.
All those from the west coast moving east only to mess up states like NM, AZ,CO etc
This conversation is about Rush and his Bloody Thursday for Mitt Romney and to give a fatal blow to Newt.
Rush is still supporting Mitt Romney.
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