Gingrich: I Supported Goldwater

Real Clear Politics Gingrich Video ^ | January 23rd | Gingrich

[Halfmanhalfamazing]

"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 '70s. I helped Governor Reagan become President Reagan. I helped pass the Reagan economic program and worked with the National Security Council on issues including the collapse of the Soviet Empire," Newt Gingrich said at tonight's debate.

[Halfmanhalfamazing]

And then there's this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJQsLFhuyOY

*shakes head*

[Utmost Certainty]

Gee, funny how that video cuts off so we don’t know what Newt actually said in context.

[Yashcheritsiy]

Good way to tick off the SoCons, Newt.

[DJ MacWoW]

You're being fooled by the advocacy media.

Reagan's Young Lieutenant - By Jeffrey Lord on 1.24.12 @ 6:09AM

Jeffrey Lord is a former Reagan White House political director

Excerpts:

Newt Gingrich was part of the Reagan Revolution's Murderers' Row. And anybody who was in Washington in the day, much less in the Reagan White House or the 1984 Reagan re-election campaign (and I would make that particular cut of three), knew it.

The Gingrich work product? Making certain that Ronald Reagan was not put on record leaving the door open for any more ill-fated tax increases. Dole was furious with the young Newt -- and, it might be noted, recently made a point of endorsing Mitt Romney. Hmmmmm.

That said, time after time after time in the Reagan years, a number of those times which I had the opportunity to see up close as a young Reagan staffer charged in my duties with being the White House liaison to Gingrich and Kemp's Conservative Opportunity Society, Newt Gingrich was out there again and again and again for Ronald Reagan and conservative principles. In his own memoirs, The Politics of Diplomacy, James Baker noted of his days as Reagan White House Chief of Staff that he always "worked closely" with the people Baker described as "congressional leaders." And who were those leaders? Baker runs off a string of names of the older leaders of both House and Senate in the formal positions of power -- plus one. That's right: young Newt Gingrich.

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[DJ MacWoW]

[jessduntno]

“Newt Gingrich was part of the Reagan Revolution’s Murderers’ Row.”

Yeah, I would say that’s the money quote.

Jeffrey Lord astonished the left and the right by penning an article in the conservative American Spectator attacking former-USDA official Shirley Sherrod for using the term “lynching” to describe the murder of one of her relative years ago. The problem, according to Lord, was that the victim, Bobby Hall was beaten to death by a blackjack, rather than being hanged by the neck. “It’s...possible that she knew the truth and chose to embellish it, changing a brutal and fatal beating to a lynching.”

Critics, even at his own magazine, pounced, noting that a lynching is an extrajudicial murder by a mob, whether or not the weapon of choice is a rope.

Last night, in an interview with TPMDC, Lord defended himself and extended his critique of Sherrod, and the entire Democratic party, which he claims is the true repository of racism in the United States.

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/jeffrey-lord/

[katiedidit1]

It is media spin. "If you carefully parse Gingrich’s claim, he never actually said that he backed Goldwater. Gingrich merely stated that he attended a Goldwater organizing session in 1964, when Goldwater became the Republican nominee against Lyndon Johnson. That wouldn’t surprise anyone, given Gingrich’s intellectual curiosity and his political ambition; why not go and see what Goldwater’s team had to say? Still, Gingrich offered this as evidence of his long-term commitment to the conservative cause, and never mentioned his work as a Rockefeller organizer — for which he seemed apologetic by 1988 in this clip, offering that nugget as a bit of a confessional to underscore how well he understood both sides of the GOP divide. If you polled baby boomers as to whether they attended Woodstock, you’d probably find that 30 million people went to that concert. I’d put this in the same category as a harmless bit of spin. Whatever else one says about Gingrich, he’s certainly been in the trenches for a very long time." This was on Hot Air. BTW! what was Mitt Romney doing in the 60's?

[nhwingut]

Just listened to this on Rush. I was ROFL when Rush was describing Snerdley’s reaction.

[DJ MacWoW]

Someone from the old school that knows words mean things.

[riverdawg]

“I helped pass the Reagan economic program and worked with the National Security Council on issues including the collapse of the Soviet Empire,”

I'll give credit to Newt for his work in the House to get the 1981 and 1986 tax reforms passed. And I know that Bud McFarlane recently endorsed Newt. But the irony of Newt claiming credit for working with the NSC to facilitate the collapse of the Soviet Union is that he was a persistent and very vocal critic of Reagan's Cold War strategy, and specifically of Reagan's proposals for mutual arms reductions. Newt did not understand the fundamental insight of John Poindexter and (ironically) McFarlane that the Soviets had a numerical advantage in building missiles and warhead tonnage, but the US had a qualitative advantage in developing and deploying advanced technologies that might counter much of the Soviet strategic nuclear missile force. The Reagan arms reduction proposals were focused on reducing or even eliminating existing stockpiles of missiles and warheads, but allowing the high-tech R&D to continue. The INF treaty was signed only after Gorbachev agreed to untie missile reductions and the SDI.

[DJ MacWoW]

As suspected, that was carefully edited. And you bought it.

Video of Newt Bashing Reagan Bogus

[Bender2]

So did I in 1964 and here... is proof!

And I see you supported Playboy... too!

Still do, big... still do!

I'll drink to that, Bendy... to naked gals and strong drink!

[big'ol_freeper]

Heh, heh, while you were supporting Playboy, Playboy was supporting us...

[Bender2]

Hate to tell ya, big, but I got a preview of Marg's naked Playboy layout... while you were in the shower--

[big'ol_freeper]

No wonder there was extra money in the checking account

[RockinRight]

You can agree with one person yet realize a competitor is a better candidate.

I’ve done that before, of course, FR has trashed me for it...

[Bender2]

Re: No wonder there was extra money in the checking account

Well, that night, she was worth... a big tip!