Posted on 01/26/2012 2:05:25 PM PST by JerseyHighlander
Politicos homepage top headline is The right drops a bomb on Newt featuring photos of Ann Coulter, Tom DeLay, Elliot Abrams and Matt Drudge.
Just like in December, the rise of Newt has caused panic in Republican circles.
In December the charge was led by National Review, and now its being led by Matt Drudge, as reflected in this image from Marooned in Marin:
For several days Drudge has been running almost around-the-clock negative banners against Newt, hyping negatives and burying news which contradicts the Romney campaign narrative that Newt was anti-Reagan.
Against the anti-Newt crusade stands a wealth of counter-viewpoints of people who were in a position to know and who share very differenct recollections of Newt and Reagan, via Josh Painter in the comments:
Reagan Natl Security Advisor Bud McFarlane: http://bit.ly/zd9eAF
Reagan Economist Art Laffer: http://bit.ly/xEDETi
Reagan WH political director Jeffrey Lord: http://bit.ly/zw2ZMb
Reagan Policy Analyst Peter Ferrara http://bit.ly/zq1QxI
Reagan media consultant Richard Quinn: http://on.msnbc.com/y2sPM2
Reagans Speechwriting Dir. Bently Elliott: http://thedc.com/xOkDvA
Reagans older son Michael Reagan: http://bit.ly/yYVy7L
Reagans beloved wife Nancy: http://bit.ly/zrWvAw
Ill add to that Peter Robinson, former Reagan speechwriter, who wrote the historic Berlin Wall address in which President Reagan urged Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down this wall!:
Newt shared the frustrations of many conservatives, including, from time to time, me, that the President permitted the bureaucracy to prove persistently feckless, undermining his programas youll recall if youre of a certain age, conservatives were always insisting that the Presidents staff should let Reagan be Reagan. If Newt mouthed off, giving vent to these frustrations, so be it. He was in Congress. That was, in a sense, his job. And at one time or another, every conservative of any standing felt exasperated or worriedand urged the President not to go soft either on Communism or on our own bureaucracy. Newts comments here place him in the company of William F. Buckley, Jr.WFB vented his frustrations more artfully, but he vented themand Id have thought that for our friends at NR that would be quite good enough.
Drudge has 30 million visits a day on his side. We have history on our side. Make it known.
Update: David Kenner of Foreign Policy magazine:
You may be interested in this thread (The Drudge-Romney axis):
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2839186/posts
see also my post #59 on that thread for additional info
This is sooooo disappointing. I almost can’t believe it.
The more I read the more I think maybe even I will have to let Drudge go.
This is so sad, but I just can’t vote 4 Romney...never. No more RINO’s.
If I have to say goodbye to Drudge or Newt, then I’ll have to turn away from Drudge.
:(
Besides Britt Hume (my assumption, I know you didn’t identify him), anybody else you will “call out” on Fox?
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