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 ...
G.W. Bush was elected in 2000. Since it was 1997, I assume the writer meant G. Herbert W. Bush.
OH! [head slap] You’re right, only Clinton was Prez in 1997.
George H.W. Bush left office in 1992. So it must of been George W. Bush post 2000 sometime.
How does that sound? You know, we both sound crazed!!
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