Elliot Abrams Caught Misleading on Newt (Lying about Newt for Romney)

The American Spectator ^ | 1/27/12 | Jeffrey Lord

[KansasGirl]

As Ronald Reagan used to say: Well. Yesterday we took note of former Reagan State Department official Elliott Abrams' piece over at NRO that went after Newt Gingrich on his relationship with Reagan. While voting regularly with Reagan as a young congressman from Georgia, Gingrich, claimed Abrams, "often spewed insulting rhetoric at Reagan, his top aides and his policies to defeat Communism." Abrams then goes on to cite " a famous floor statement Gingrich made on March 21, 1986." Or sort of cites it.  In fact, I'm sorry to say, what appears to be going on here is that Elliott Abrams, a considerably admirable public servant and a very smart guy, has been swept up in the GOP Establishment's Romney frothings over the rise of Newt Gingrich in the Republican primaries. He is even being accused of trolling for a job in a Romney administration. No way!!!! Really????

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So now I've read the Gingrich speech that is the source of all the hoopla. All seven, fine print pages worth of it exactly as it appeared in its original form. I can only say that what Elliott Abrams wrote in NRO about Newt Gingrich based on this long ago speech is not worthy of Elliott Abrams. Specifically, Abrams implies that Newt Gingrich was spewing mindless vitriol about Reagan on the House floor. Not only not so, it was quite to the contrary. Of President Reagan, Gingrich says:

[KansasGirl]

This is a must read!

[Logical me]

Problem is the damage is done. I classify all these liers as communists because they want to endorse Romney, the liberal RINO. There is no way we can undue this damage before voting. Newt is going to have a hard time pulling this off without the GOP voters realizing that it is not only the MSM, Democrats, and much of the Establishment GOP that is putting Newt down.

[newheart]

Now maybe Jeff Lords can turn his insight into an examination of his boss’s Newt-bashing.

[hoosiermama]

How many of those organized to release anti-Newt material on Black-Thursday will end up with egg on their lying faces?

Were their actions the result of love/money or blackmail?

[jimpick]

Let me see misleading and outright lying ads, and a health care plan. Sound like anybody else you know?

[KansasGirl]

Yes, the damage is done. It is unforgivable, imo. Newt was one of Reagan’s biggest defenders and they smear him as anti-Reagan. LIARS!

[Just mythoughts]

I am still ticked about these LIES. And anybody ‘covering up’ for these liars is no better. Imagine that, they the gop establishment have been calling Newt, Clinton without a personality... but it was the LIES that tripped up old Clinton ‘ethically’.... ‘challenged’... AND these hypocrites are LIARS!!!!

[rightwingextremist1776]

I think what we saw yesterday (bloody Thursday) was not so much an attempt to persuade with the substance of the accusations, it was more psychological ....the shear mass was meant to be the payload. As time goes on and the lies are put to rest the Romney camp will have very little to use going forward. If Newt can weather this storm and turn it around on Romney, make him out to be a liar, Newt will once again rise from the ashes.....

[KansasGirl]

Was it just me, or did Romney’s defense of ORomneycare last night sound just like Obama’s defense of Obamacare?

[hoosiermama]

It's using the Alinsky/Lenin/Axelrod meme technique.

Greta is riding on Newt's bus today and her show tonight will feature Newt.

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[musicman]

"Was it just me, or did Romney’s defense of ORomneycare last night sound just like Obama’s defense of Obamacare?"

[RoosterRedux]

Were their actions the result of love/money or blackmail?

I have difficulty understand why the anti-Newt people would get involved in a concerted effort to torpedo a candidate with lies. Could you expand a bit on the "blackmail" idea. Who would be blackmailing whom?

I have wondered if they are afraid of Newt because he probably knows "too much."

[cincinnati65]

So I’m guessing Drudge has this up with a siren, right?

[oblomov]

It wasn’t just you.

Similarly, Ann Coulter’s defense of Romneycare last night (on her Twitter feed) was just like Paul Begala’s defense of Obamacare.

[dirtboy]

[Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears]

VIDEO for discussion only. (I got this from Rush's site)

Newt advises GHWB not to follow in Reagan's footsteps, because he will lose, and because "the country has changed."

"Newt Gingrich bad-mouths Ronald Reagan in 1988"

[hoosiermama]

Re
money: contributions to sitting congress critters PAC in exchange for endorsements. Advertisements (Drudge)For all the attention Romney is pointing toward Newt re: lobbyist, Newt knows whose wife, child etc are getting paid to lobby and the unhealthy atmosphere that creates (Lenin: accuse others of the things you are doing)*

Love/hate: It is no secret the Newt upended the establishment in DC last time he was there. Yes, he knows where the bodies are buried. Michael Reagan went into great detail yesterday of the conflict between the Goldwater/Rockefeller republicans. Also * above

There is always so many “relationships” in politics. Who's sleeping to the top with whom. Who's not what they profess to be. Always opens itself to blackmail. Clinton's extra activities were most damaging which of our enemies knew and could blackmail him into a conflicting action for our country. The lobbying also plays here.

[joe fonebone]

My question is, why is anything coming out of the media being accepted as fact? I see it here on FR so damn often ( I have even been guilty ) the media are lying whores, period.....as my gramps used to say, “ On the ladder of morality, a reporter is two rungs below a pimp. You see, a pimp would never sell his mother, and a pimp would never sell his sister, but a reporter would sell both to get a story.”... gramps was smart

[Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears]

JOKE OF THE DAY:

The top two Republican candidates are Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich.

It’s not funny, though...it’s perverse.