First, C. Edmund, I don't have the transcript, so I don't know if that is a direct quote or how it was said.
Second, RUSH apologized. Did you want Newt to say, "Gosh, hey my man Rush, don't apologize?" Is that it???
You are so all over the map, it's hard to know where you stand, day to day.
I am not all over the map at all, not on ideas and philosophy. Now, if that makes me all over the map about other people - who may be all over the map, so be it.
I have a different view than most Freepers I suppose. Supporting someone in my book INCLUDES SMACKING THEM DOWN WHEN THEY SCREW UP. That’s part of it. I will be no one’s sycophant. I refuse. I am a Duke fan so this morning I admit they were awful last night! That’s what a real supporter does IMO.
Yes, I realize that counters many prevailing winds here on FR. But you will never find my philosophy in one post at odds with my philosophy in another post.
Now, besides which, I answered your question in 2 other posts. I pointed out which quotes of Newts were brilliant and which ones he should have left unsaid. I think I was very clear and very specific and very correct on those points.
And I was totally consistent in those opinions with everything else I have ever said here on FR.
C. Edmund Wright has been a strung supporter of Newt. He thinks very strategically. I believe he’s saying that Newt should have stopped with “.....while Obama is apologizing....”. By continuing Newt set up a dynamic wherein the press will now go to Rush with Newt’s statement ....then come back to Newt with what Rush says.... and so on. Not exactly what you want to be talking about heading into Super Tuesday. In effect by continuing to speak Newt has entered the fray, and fallen into one of the media traps that Santorum has shown a propensity to fall in. I could be wrong.
Drop the emotion.
You were right, but you’re beating a dead horse now.
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