Jeffery Lord of the Spectator has published a article about Elliott Abrams and his hit piece on Newt Gingrich. How Newt was using insulting rhetoric directed towards President Ronald Reagan on how to defeat Communism.
Mr. Lord appears to think that Elliott Abrams is trying to get a job in a future Romney administration.
Chris Scheve of Aqua Terra Strategies has caught Mr. Elliott Abrams, quote: ..red-handed on the attempted hit piece. Mr. Scheve is also a former foreign policy aide to Speaker Newt Gingrich when Newt was serving as Speaker of the House.
Chris Scheve started digging into the Congressional Record for March 21, 1986 searching for Newt’s “Special Order” speech given on the floor of the House. Quote: “most of [Elliot Abrams'] comments had to ahve been selectively taken from that special order speech.
Mr. Abrams implies that Newt Gingrich was ragging on Reagan on the House floor. This turns out not to be the case according to Jeffery Lord – it was actually to the contrary.
Here is the quote from Jeffery Lord on Newt Gingrich from the Congressional Record: “Let me be clear: I have the greatest respect for President Reagan. I think he personally understands the threat of communism.” Gingrich then goes on — at Newtonian length — praising Reagan for Reagan’s understanding of Lenin, Reagan’s understanding of the real “purposes of a Soviet dictatorship” and much more. He lists and applauds Reagan repeatedly for the President’s appreciation of “the threat in a more powerful Soviet empire” and the threats posed by Communist Cuba and Nicaragua. He ranks Reagan with the great cold war presidents in protecting freedom. end quote.
Years later, Nancy Reagan would speak publicly and “Ronnie” passing on the conservative torch to Newt. In other news articles, Nancy Reagan may have been referring to not on Newt, but the rest of the Republican members of the House that came to power in the mid-1990s.
Below is another pulled quote from the article: Abrams quotes Newt for saying in this speech that Reagan’s policies towards the Soviets are “inadequate and will ultimately fail.” This is shameful. Why? Here’s what Newt said — in full and in context:
“The fact is that George Will, Charles Krauthammer, Irving Kristol, and Jeane Kirkpatrick are right in pointing out the enormous gap between President Reagan’s strong rhetoric, which is adequate, and his administration’s weak policies, which are inadequate and will ultimately fail.”
In other words, Newt was picking up on a concern, prominent in the day and voiced by no less than Reagan’s then ex-UN Ambassador Kirkpatrick, not to mention prominent Reagan supporters Will and Kristol and the late-Mondale aide turned conservative Krauthammer, that Reagan’s anti-Communist policies could be stronger if better institutionalized and not tied as much to the Reagan persona. The entire speech focused on suggestions of how to do just that — to effectively institutionalize Reagan’s conservative beliefs in the government. Is Abrams seriously accusing Jeane Kirkpatrick and George Will of being anti-Reagan? Of spewing “insulting rhetoric” at a president everyone in Washington knew they staunchly supported? Really? Of course not. But in apparent service to the Romney campaign, in order to make Newt Gingrich appear to be doing just that, Abrams apparently quite deliberately cut out the original Gingrich reference to Will, Kirkpatrick, Krauthammer, and Kristol. end quote.
Michael Reagan has endorsed Newt Gingrich. Sarah Palin posted a article on her Facebook page talking about how the GOP is cannibalizing itself by using the same tactics that the Left does. How the GOP establishment keeps trying to put down the Tea Party uprising. You know that old saying children should be seen – not heard? That is how the GOP is treating the Tea Party. But without the Tea Party, the GOP would not have won in 2010. Use the link below in the Ref section to read her entire article.
But here is a quote of hers: 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. end quote.
It’s not an outright endorsement of Newt Gingrich by Sarah Palin, but its as close as we are going to get for Florida right now. Heck, in the Politico today, Sarah Palin was labeled as Newt Gingrich’s secret weapon! While she still has not given her “official” endorsement, her husband Todd sure has. Her words are a warning to the GOP establishment that business as usual no longer applies to elections. The American people (in this blogger’s view) is in the process of staging a “Republican Spring” revolution.
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1. Spectator.org. “Elliott Abrams Caught Misleading on Newt” by Jeffery Lord. January 27, 2012. ( http://spectator.org/blog/2012/01/27/elliott-abrams-caught-misleadi ).
2. facebook.com/Sarah Palin. “Cannibals in GOP Establishment Employ Tactics of the Left” by Sarah Palin. January 27, 2012. ( http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=10150516734848435 ).
3. Politico.com. “Sarah Palin: Newt Gingrich’s secret weapon” by Ginger Gibson. January 27, 2012. ( http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0112/72096.html ).
