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Thanks. I clicked over and read the Abrams National Review hitpiece on Gingrich, and upon honest analysis, I did not see anything “devastating”, or new, or that would prevent me from voting for him in the primary and even working to get Speaker Gingrich nominated and elected President.

Here is why. Abrams in defending the State Department and Reagan era policies that preceeded the fall of the Soviet Empire, makes the claim that the amount of funding wrung out of a reluctant democrat congress to fund the proxy wars against the commies was brilliantly also the exact minimum amount needed to be responsible for the fall of the Soviet Union. Abrams implies Gingrich, a young firebrand congressman at the time who was actually arguing for a MORE aggressive approach, was “insulting” Reagan and “his top aides” (Abrams?). Abrams also takes full credit for whatever unspecified benefit may have accrued to the United States for the fall of the Russian Empire, while vilifying the young congressman, not for voting for President Reagans policies regularly, which he did, but for not being unquestioning in his duty as an elected official to authorize funding for and examine if what Abrams was doing with the money would actually work. So Speaker Gingrich, raised a duck-and-cover kid, but voting the right way on the issue as a congressman, had over-estimated the strength and under-estimated the fragility of the Communists. That’s a reason to never vote for Speaker Gingrich in a primary? Yes, the older Reagan was correct in the amount of force it would take for the Soviet Empire to begin to crack. It did not take as much as Gingrich thought. That’s not a reason to never vote for Speaker Gingrich in a primary.

As regards the surge, I’ve never had it explained to me exactly why our troops were so understrength in the first few long YEARS of the occupation and why Bush went along so long losing our guys one by one, ignoring his own party’s calls for a surge - but I know Gingrich had nothing to do with that mistake. I could go on, but Limbaugh just came on and I need to monitor his daily attacks on Gingrich.