Disagree. All three are very aware of the massive Conservative mandates Gingrich was able to install when he was in Congress.
They also know he is able to handle the press and Congress in order to steer this country in the right direction. No way do they consider Newt and Romney as the same.
For Rush, Romney is more like McCain. Notice Rush never interviewed McCain, he interviewed Sarah Palin during the election. Rush has already had Newt on his show recently.
Rush commenting about Newt Gingrich PRAISING the COMMUNIST SEIU union leader Andy Stern in one of his books:
“Maybe disintegrating or deteriorating is the wrong term to describe what's happening, but both these guys, ROMNEY and NEWT are being flushed out in the course of the campaign here. It's why I said yesterday, SANTORUM, BACHMAN, PERRY are all out there, and a lot of people are hoping that one of THEM, second chance, catches fire.
It was the same book where Newt said that FDR was one of the greatest American presidents!”
Rush got an email from the Newt campaign OF COURSE saying it was a mistake and Rush said later he wasn't trying to rip on Newt but the stuff was “out there.”
I never heard Rush ever jump ugly like that on Bachman Santorum or Perry.
He may have come close with Perry over his “heartless” and “racist” inferences about those who want to enforce immigration laws.