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.
I explained why I was in this “Gingrich” thread. And not once in this thread did I say anything negative about Newt Gingrich. I defended Santorum against an unrelated attack, and corrected misinformation about Nancy Reagan.
You can call it whatever you want — the fact is there is no evidence Nancy Reagan said Ronnie passed the torch just to Newt, and all the other arguments made — who had whose picture taken, who had Michael Reagan’s endorsement, who was “known” by Reagan” — provided any evidence to contradict the clear meaning of what Nancy Reagan actually said.
SO unless you have a quote from Nancy Reagan or her aides that in fact she meant to say Ronnie personally passed his legacy onto just Newt Gingrich, I’d say you have nothing more to add to that particular question.
Every claim I’ve made in this thread I backed up with a link — people want to misrepresent my argument, and I can’t stop them, but what I said is true, and is cited.
BTW, this is why I generally stay out of Newt threads — not because I can’t easily argue the points, but because it’s pointless to bother, even to defend Santorum against baseless attacks. People want to say what they want, they don’t want to be questioned, and they certainly don’t want to have a discussion.
And you can’t have any complicated argument with people who want to deny clear meaning to make stupid points they think are good “debate” points but would be laughed at in any REAL debate.