[CutePuppy]

No, I can't listen. But I did hear Rush's spat with Newt on "Era of Reagan is over" where he would not even let Newt finish the sentence and explain, and couldn't for the life of me understand why Rush went off the way he did.

I did hear the excerpt in question from interview with Gregory, and I heard Gingrich differently than what I had read from others about "what he said," answering a very specific question.

Newt's answers and speeches usually don't fit into the sound bite, and what he says is often, and deliberately, "lost in translation"... e.g., remember "Let Medicare... will wither on the wine"? They have been doing it to Gingrich ever since, and his Republican competitors were only happy to join in, to undermine him.

Newt wants to devolve Medicare from federal program to the states and let each state decide how they want to design the program (possibly, by leaving the federal program only to send block grants to the states, so it's a Medicare in name only). If state wants to implement a program that bankrupts it, with or without individual mandate, that's up to the state's voters. Completely in line with 10th amendment.

I prefer to hear things from the "horse's mouth," not translated by "horses' arses" who have different agenda.

See what Newt has been doing to counteract Alinsky's "community organizers" - Gingrich's Secret Weapon: Newt Inc. - FR / WSJ, 2011 May 15

I prefer someone who actually does implement and advances Reagan's / conservative ideas, rather than hear someone spouting conservative PC slogans (like McCain saying he was a "soldier in Reagan's army" etc. etc.) without any concrete ideas of how to do anything of the kind.

[IMissPresidentReagan]

The whole horse, known as Newt, was sitting on the couch with Nancy Pelosi.

[newzjunkey]

Newt was better on Greta last night but I’m very, very lukewarm to him.

[IMissPresidentReagan]

I prefer to hear things from the "horse's mouth," not translated by "horses' arses" who have different agenda.

Speaking of agendas, you comment on something, insinuating that Rush is drudging up an old grudge, when you've not listened to the entire conversation.

[Eagle of Liberty]

I prefer someone who actually does implement and advances Reagan's / conservative ideas

That's fine, and I do too, but I do NOT like Gingrich's strategy of accepting the progressive premise and then offering a conservative alternative to that premise. He has been doing this quite a lot as of late. And this was part of that Gingrich-Limbaugh Feud. Rush brought Newt on to explain his "conservative approach" to things such as Climate Change and Newt started with accepting the Gore-Man made premise.