I guess we could trade competing quotes, but I’m sure you would say that you don’t believe any of the people at the links I would cite, and I don’t really care one way or another.
My point was that of course Santorum wouldn’t be known by Reagan, because Santorum didn’t become a congressman until 1991, well after Reagan was gone from the scene. And I’m not insisting that Nancy Reagan was personally passing the torch to anybody, much less Rick Santorum.
You are the one who is claiming with no evidence that Gingrich was the new Torch-bearer. So as I said to lonevoice — show me a quote from Nancy Reagan (she’s still alive, so she could confirm if she wanted) that she actually meant to just give the torch to Gingrich.
Right now all you have is a quote from 1995 where she passed the torch to the entire Republican congress. Since you are claiming that she didn’t mean that, it’s really up to you to provide some evidence.
Of course, this entire argument is stupid. We should be discussing what Gingrich has been up to the last 5 years, not what someone said about him before he started his job as Majority Leader over 15 years ago, in another century.
My point was that of course Santorum wouldn’t be known by Reagan, because Santorum didn’t become a congressman until 1991, well after Reagan was gone from the scene. And I’m not insisting that Nancy Reagan was personally passing the torch to anybody, much less Rick Santorum.
Thank you for the confirmation of what I posted way back up the thread. Nancy didn’t pass the torch just to Newt, she passed it to ALL the Republican members of Congress. Santorum was one of those members, so Ronnie passed the torch to Rick Santorum.
I stay out of the “Gingrich” threads, but it’s hard when they turn into baseless personal attacks on Rick Santorum.
I don’t know — you are calling me a Newt-basher, but I have virtually avoided any thread that was about Gingrich.
You've made thirteen posts today, twelve of them on Gingrich threads, showing that you're less than honest, nevermind that you contradict yourself repeatedly, and claim not to have said what you actually said all within the span of a few posts on just this one thread.
Your sophistry is ridiculous.