Posted on 01/26/2012 2:05:25 PM PST by JerseyHighlander
Politico’s 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 it’s 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 Nat’l 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
Reagan’s Speechwriting Dir. Bently Elliott: http://thedc.com/xOkDvA
Reagan’s older son Michael Reagan: http://bit.ly/yYVy7L
Reagan’s beloved wife Nancy: http://bit.ly/zrWvAw
I’ll 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 program–as you’ll recall if you’re of a certain age, conservatives were always insisting that the President’s 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 worried–and urged the President not to go soft either on Communism or on our own bureaucracy. Newt’s comments here place him in the company of William F. Buckley, Jr.–WFB vented his frustrations more artfully, but he vented them–and I’d 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:
Someone must have dumped gold bars on his house. And his FBI file copy, family’s addresses, etc. Maybe GoogleBama has threatened to block his site.
I’m with you, and I have never missed voting in a Presidential election. I haven’t enthusiastically voted for a candidate since Ronald Reagan.
Angry doesn’t begin to describe my frustration with the GOP.
It’s been reported Matt Drudge is working closely with Romney campaign staffer Matt Rhoades for a while. The question is how “close” are they. That would be all the motivation he needed.
Cross off Ann Coulter, cross off Drudge (removed him from my bookmark favorites). Any other RINOS wanna be dumped by me since I’m in a foul crossing off mood? Bring it on.
Go Newt!!
Reporting for duty, sir!
Same here, FRiend, same here.
I agree with you. My opinion is that he can't say no to Crazie Annie Coulter and Briebart who have in effect taken over his website. If what I have seen today is the work of Matt Drudge then he is clearly under the influence of something or someone.
Limbaugh, Mike Reagan Blast Romney
Say Gingrich is true Conservative
... Developing
A few advertising dollars go a long way on the Internet -- certainly in comparison to television.
Guidance welcome.
Note to GOP....serious backfire when messing with your base and pitting our choice against what the GOP-E is trying to force feed us.
No thanks!
I recall hearing rumours about this years ago. Could it be as simple as that Mitt was involved in allowing homosexual “marriage” in Massachusetts, but Gingrich is against it?
I have lost all respect for Matt Drudge and suspect these absurd attacks on Newt are being motivated by his homosexual lifestyle. Every homosexual who has claimed to be a conservative Republican (like those in the fraud group GOProud) is now viciously attacking Gingrich. There is something very sick going on and I wish someone in the media would expose it. I hope Rush tells the truth about Drudge and why he has sold out.
I'll comment:
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Yes, and do you know Ann Coulter is some sort of council member for GOProud? I’m not saying all of the attacks on Newt are motivated by the “gay mafia,” but then I suspect gay marriage or the attitude toward gays in general is one of THE BIGGEST dividing lines in the Republican party right now, more than anyone has spoken about or realized to date. The base of the party thinks the gay lifestyle is deeply immoral, while the elites (Peggy Noonan and such) believe it is deeply immoral to criticize the gay agenda at all. Abortion is still there but not quite the hot button it once was, and people in the party don’t have huge gulfs on spending/taxes/military.
http://motherjones.com/mojo/2011/08/ann-coulter-goproud-gay-icon-council-chair
It's time to purge them from our midst! we should be thankful they have chosen to reveal themselves.
Never again will I visit this scumbag’s site.
Thank God for JimRob and Free Republic.
One of the pro-gay Republicans, Margaret Hoover, said on FOX recently that while Romney says he has the same position on gay marriage as the other candidates, people like her believe he’s not convincing and only saying it to win over the base. I have no doubt all of her ilk see Romney the same way. And, as usual, the things he DID in Massachusetts, not the things he said, tell the tale...
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=48457
As Governor, Romney Said “I Do” To Gay Marriage AT Least 189 Times
Romney’s statements, however, conflict with his gubernatorial behavior.
While Team Romney argues that the SJC forced it to give gay couples conventional marriage licenses, the special, one-day licenses are a strictly gubernatorial choice, as Massachusetts law unambiguously states:
“The governor MAY in his DISCRETION designate a justice of the peace in each town…as he considers expedient, to solemnize marriages…” The law continues: “…the governor MAY designate any other person to solemnize a particular marriage…” (Emphasis added.)
“Even if one accepts the Goodridge decision as constitutional, the one-day permits were above and beyond what was required by the court decision; they were purely discretionary,”
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