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Posted on 01/26/2012 2:58:33 PM PST by Qbert
I like Elliott Abrams. Big time.
But…gee. Elliott…Elliott…Elliott.
Mr. Abrams is in the news for this piece over at National Review Online
Sounds saleable, yes? Ex-Reagan State Department aide cites Newt criticism on Reagan.
There's a problem with this story.
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Never… not once… did Elliott Abrams ever say to me something along the lines of "that SOB Newt said X." Never. I never heard it from Elliott, and perhaps even more to the point I never heard it from a colleague in our office. One would hear things about, say, then Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter or some such. The President himself would get irked at Specter. But Newt Gingrich? Anti-Reagan? A problem of some sort for the Reagan White House political office? Not a prayer.
If this were a problem, not once did Elliott Abrams ever say a word to me. So the question is: did he say this to someone else? Was there someone inside the Reagan political office who knew all this and never said a word? These folks are around to ask.
One was just on TV addressing the nation the other night. That would be Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels -- the overall boss of the Reagan political office. And then there's now former Governor Haley Barbour of Mississippi, just below Mitch Daniels in the pecking order in the day. Neither ever said a word to the rest of us about Newt being anti-Reagan...
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But quite specifically, if Elliott Abrams ever was seriously concerned about Newt Gingrich's relationship with Ronald Reagan he never… ever… brought it to the attention of the White House political office. To the best of my knowledge.
Or… he did. And the answers are there to be had from Governors Daniels and Barbour and from Ed Rollins.
(Excerpt) Read more at spectator.org ...
I don’t know if anyone remembers this, but McCain, Cantor, Barbour and one other person had started up a website/page on a new Republican set of ideas....that was pulled down unexplainedly on election night, 2010.
Now, what does that say?
For those who don’t know, Elliot Abrams is a neocon, formerly a Democrat working with Democrat Senators who switched over to supporting Reagan when it became apparent Pres. Carter had a hollow foreign policy.
Abrhams was up to his eyeballs in Iran Contra. Lawrence Walsh, the Independent Counsel tasked with investigating the case, prepared multiple felony counts against Abrams but never indicted him. Instead, Abrams entered into a plea agreement with Walsh and pled guilty to two misdemeanors of withholding information from Congress.
On February 5, 1997, the D.C. Court of Appeals publicly censured Abrams for giving false testimony on three occasions before congressional committees.
He wasn’t exonerated of these crimes, either. He was pardoned by Pres. George W. Bush before leaving office.
Abrams is a Senior Fellow with the Council on Foreign Relations and was a member of the Project for the New American Century (PNAC), an American think tank based in Washington, D.C. that lasted from 1997 to 2006. It was co-founded as a non-profit educational organization by neoconservatives William Kristol and Robert Kagan. The PNAC’s stated goal was “to promote American global leadership...” or, more succinctly, Globalism.
List of those in the GOP Elite AKA GOPE AKA GO PEe
is getting longer. Congress is part of the GO PEe.
Since the approval of congress is lower than the MSM, Newt Needs to continue to run against the MSM and GO PEe.
On February 5, 1997, the D.C. Court of Appeals publicly censured Abrams for giving false testimony on three occasions before congressional committees.
So people are suppose to believe a guy who lied 3 times?
“So people are suppose to believe a guy who lied 3 times?”
Exactly. I would hesitate to believe anything said by Mr. Abrams about a Conservative Republican like Gingrich.
George W. Bush pardoned him? Or was it George Herbert Walker Bush?
Pretty amazing how those two pictures were taken within seconds of each other.
“On February 5, 1997, the D.C. Court of Appeals publicly censured Abrams for giving false testimony on three occasions before congressional committees.”
“He wasn’t exonerated of these crimes, either. He was pardoned by Pres. George W. Bush before leaving office.”
Since the date is 1997, one assumes that G.W.Bush is the correct President.
I read Elliot Abrams’ book years ago. I really felt bad for him the way that Lawrence Walsh destroyed his life and his finances. Imagine trying to raise a family going through what he did.
But apparently the target may have become a bully himself.
I’ve been warning the past week about all of the Trojan Horse former Democrats working with Romney...
Really! What is your source?
Mine was Wikipedia. If they’re inaccurate, they should be informed.
To be sure, there was the disturbing Global Warming commercial with Nancy Pelosi. At least Newt acknowledged that he was wrong to do that. Has Willard ever similarly acknowledged a political mistake?
Did two little old grandparents driving their car on their way to buy Christmas presents ever "intercept" any Romney cellphone calls? The reason they didn't is that Romney was never a threat to the liberal left. This was the only cellphone call intercepted and recorded so far by ordinary people in the history of electronics. Or maybe it wasn't.
Rush says the liberals will always tell us who their enemies are. Before anyone ever heard of Sarah Palin, they told us they hated Newt.
ML/NJ
Uh, that's because Newt wasn't that big a deal in those days.
If some backbencher badmouths the President discussing it usually isn't worth the effort -- and Abrams had a lot of other things to worry about in those days.
Also, a lot of Newt's complaints about Reagan were what Abrams would have heard from his father-in-law, Norman Podhoretz, and this may have been a sore point for him.
This author, Jeffrey Lord, was just on with Mark Levin about a half hour ago.
They basically called Elliot Abrams a big fat liar.
The best part was when Mark played audio of Nancy Reagan speaking at a 1995 GOP fundraiser about how Goldwater passed the torch to Ronnie, and how Ronnie passed the torch to Newt Gingrich. This was contrasted with audio of Mittens from the same era saying how he was “an independent” and a “progressive” and how he didn’t “want to go back to Reagan and Bush”.
It was devastating stuff (for Mittens).
I hope the Gingrich camp is listening very carefully to Mark Levin.
bttt
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