Posted on 01/28/2012 4:58:46 PM PST by NormsRevenge
Over the last week, several people that worked in the Reagan administration have come forward and countered former House Speaker Newt Gingrich’s claim that he is a “Reagan Republican.” These people say Gingrich “wasn’t on board with a lot of what President Ronald Reagan tried to accomplish during his two terms.”
And although that claim has been disputed by other Reagan administration officials, former Reagan communications director Pat Buchanan told “The McLaughlin Group” this weekend that Gingrich wasn’t seen favorably by those in the administration.
“[I]n the Reagan White House, Newt Gingrich was considered quite frankly by a lot of folks to be something of a political opportunist and who was not trusted and who had played no role whatsoever,” Buchanan said. “He was a Rockefeller Republican in the great Goldwater-Rockefeller battle, where conservatism came of age.”
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Later Buchanan reiterated his criticisms of Gingrich, recalling his opposition to Reagan’s 1986 veto of a South African anti-Apartheid sanctions bill and about how Gingrich used it to score points against Reagan.
“I don’t think he has a core,” Buchanan said. “I don’t think he has a fundamental, ideological and political core. I think, look he moved, he was a Rockefeller Republican, he comes up — I remember meeting him in ’78 when he came to town, you know he is knocking Reagan. … Reagan believed that sanctions on South Africa would cripple the economy that the Africans would inherit. So it was a tough decision. Reagan vetoed it. And he scored points off us by you know voting for the sanctions and doing that. I don’t think he has an ideological core. I think he moves from one issue to another to another.”
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Pat is a reactionary blowhard loser. So is his sister
Speaking of core beliefs:
Is Free Trade good or bad, Pat?
Unions?
Israel?
I seem to remember a certain Buchanan leveling a few unwanted criticisms against Ronal Reagan who then ran for President a couple of times - and switched positions on a few key issues.
Brownie points to get his own show on FNC, I believe he just got censored on MSNBC.
Guess Pat is supporting Ron Paul. . .
Pat Buchanan can get bent. Pat you have provided nothing for the people of this land. You suck!
Maybe just bitter paybacks; as it appears is Dole’s back-handed endorsement of Newt. So Newt criticized Dole when Dems were attacking him as Candidate? Sad; but so were most REpubs; doing same; albeit, not to his face. After all; it WAS Dole’s turn. And what a ‘creaming’ it was and Newt was right.
He's no more a conservative than I'm the statue of liberty.
I would not consider voting for Newt - in 1986. Not in 1996, either.
But this is 2012. He’s older, has nothing to lose, and a legacy to leave. I’d greatly prefer him to Obama or Mitt (or Bob Dole or John McCain or Jeb Bush or...)
That’s what I was thinking.
Let’s give this guy a shot. The Status quo is killing us. The fact that the History Major from West Georgia College is tilting the apple cart is good enough for me.
Being called an opportunist by Buchanan is like being called ugly by a frog.
I’m surprised that Pat seems to be leaning towards Romney. Rockefeller RINOs like Romney seem to represent the very thing Pat has fought against within the GOP for the last 20 years. It just doesn’t make any sense.
Anyone who ties Bob Dole’s panties in a knot is OK by me. I want a candidate who will make Mitch McConnell act like a vampire who has had holy water tossed on him...
Really? I’m shocked. And no national level politician is an opportunist? Or news commentator?
OMG Norm I by chance turn into McLangian group OMGGG they are senile I was channel surfing on Friday night Supernatural was Rerun I was bored
I think Pat leans towards his buddy Ron Paul, not Romney
Pat who?
I would not consider voting for Newt - in 1986. Not in 1996, either.
But this is 2012. He’s older, has nothing to lose, and a legacy to leave. I’d greatly prefer him to Obama or Mitt (or Bob Dole or John McCain or Jeb Bush or...)
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This time was meant for Gingrich, in my thinking. The stars have aligned. Something like that anyhow...
The old school is capable of being replaced. I don’t have much better with Alexander in TN. We may share the same area but coddling to Marxism isn’t my idea of bi-partisanship.
>>The fact that the History Major from West Georgia College is tilting the apple cart
That’s a big part of the problem, according to the GOP-E.
They will never come out and say it (to do so would be a sign of poor breeding), but the bien pensant writers at NRO, Coulter, and other Newt critics like Romneys “pedigree”, but not Newt’s.
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