Posted on 01/27/2012 3:18:48 PM PST by Timber Rattler
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.
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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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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.
Too bad you cannot identify your own hysteria with regard to Obama, a hysteria that has gripped you so firmly that you would vote FOR someone who stands for EVERYTHING conservatism is against. Now THAT, my FRiend, is hysterical.
Please add me to your new ping list.
Thanks.
not to mention their middle finger and arrogant attitude.
We always know when we have a driver form the north here.
they pull up to an intersection and stop in the middle of it trying to cut in front of on coming traffic.
We down here wait behind the line and if we do not make the light s be it, next time we’ll do it.
Another is they see you signal light come on and then they speedup and don’t let you in.
and the worst they do is.
They come up to a light and it is green but there is traffic, now instead of waiting behind the line to move forward when you can into space and not block traffic they move right into the middle of the intersection and block traffic.
Now the light turns red but they are in traffic and blocking the intersection thus the other traffic coming from the other side cannot get past.
I’ve driven up there and boy they are nuts
Not Rush, if you had been listening. Or visiting his site.
Rush has been an operative of the GOP establishment since his first broadcast from Sacramento.
Sometimes that has worked out OK for us, but those times are pure random crap shoots. We have to stop leaning on imagined heroes, and get motivated at the true grass roots level. That means lots of door to door rambling. We did it for Reagan, after the bitter defeat in ‘64, we took Sacramento in a storm in ‘66.
It can be done, but a false hero will leave you in freefall. Sarah Palin didn’t deliver this time, but she didn’t stab us in the back either. I think she has to remain our focal point.
“YES! I watched the rush from the Easterners to Southern California. Those people brought their liberal politics with them and their bad driving.”
Hey now not all of us Easterners are liberal and bad drivers at least we use turn signals.
See post 242.
“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.”
And that change ain’t Romney(Care).
“Exactly. Get off the sidelines Palin.
Now’s the time. Get back in there.”
Almost time. Not yet.
When Rush had Steyn (who I used to worship but FUMS now) on Tuesday, he admitted he’d have to come back Wednesday and un-do all the damage Mark had planned for Newt.
It’s been good for ratings, I’ll bet. I don’t listen anymore. Rush is quick to credit the ‘shellacking’ of the rats and rinos in Nov ‘10 but does nothing to encourage that same shellacking crew to DO IT AGAIN this November. Fence-sitter.
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