Sarah Palin: “this ridiculous opposition dump on Newt was nothing short of Stalin-esque re-writing of history”
Wow.
Sarah Palin just launched a thousand points of fright at Team Romney and the Republican establishment who have been going after Newt’s relationship with Ronald Reagan, via Facebook:
We have witnessed something very disturbing this week. The Republican establishment which fought Ronald Reagan in the 1970s and which continues to fight the grassroots Tea Party movement today has adopted the tactics of the left in using the media and the politics of personal destruction to attack an opponent….
I am sadly too familiar with these tactics because they were used against the GOP ticket in 2008….
But this week a few handpicked and selectively edited comments which Newt made during his 40-year career were used to claim that Newt was somehow anti-Reagan and isn’t conservative enough to go against the accepted moderate in the primary race. (I know, it makes no sense, and the GOP establishment hopes you won’t stop and think about this nonsense. Mark Levin and others have shown the ridiculousness of this.) To add insult to injury, this “anti-Reagan” claim was made by a candidate who admitted to not even supporting or voting for Reagan. He actually was against the Reagan movement, donated to liberal candidates, and said he didn’t want to go back to the Reagan days. You can’t change history….
What we saw with this ridiculous opposition dump on Newt was nothing short of Stalin-esque re-writing of history. It was Alinsky tactics at their worst.
But this whole thing isn’t really about Newt Gingrich vs. Mitt Romney. It is about the GOP establishment vs. the Tea Party grassroots and independent Americans who are sick of the politics of personal destruction used now by both parties’ operatives with a complicit media egging it on. In fact, the establishment has been just as dismissive of Ron Paul and Rick Santorum. Newt is an imperfect vessel for Tea Party support, but in South Carolina the Tea Party chose to get behind him instead of the old guard’s choice. In response, the GOP establishment voices denounced South Carolinian voters with the same vitriol we usually see from the left when they spew hatred at everyday Americans “bitterly clinging” to their faith and their Second Amendment rights. The Tea Party was once again told to sit down and shut up and listen to the “wisdom” of their betters. We were reminded of the litany of Tea Party endorsed candidates in 2010 that didn’t win. Well, here’s a little newsflash to the establishment: without the Tea Party there would have been no historic 2010 victory at all….
Now, I respect Governor Romney and his success. But there are serious concerns about his record and whether as a politician he consistently applied conservative principles and how this impacts the agenda moving forward. The questions need answers now. That is why this primary should not be rushed to an end.
And I question whether the GOP establishment would ever employ the same harsh tactics they used on Newt against Obama. I didn’t see it in 2008. Many of these same characters sat on their thumbs in ‘08 and let Obama escape unvetted. Oddly, they’re now using every available microscope and endoscope – along with rewriting history – in attempts to character assassinate anyone challenging their chosen one in their own party’s primary. So, one must ask, who are they really running against?
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Sarah is so yesterday. Does anyone know who David Frum is endorsing?
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Obama
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LOL
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No she’s not, she’s miles ahead of “so yesterday”. . . that’s what you’ve got today with Obama’s “hope & change”. . . the dog and pony show of yesteryear!
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Jeez, y’all lost your sense of humor?
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Thank you for getting it.
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Now do you understand why she stayed out of 2012? She’s be through several buzzsaws already.
If she EVER wants to become POTUS someday, she’ll need to follow the Reagan strategy of 1976-1980. She’ll have to build up a more robust support/money/blogger/alternative media infrastructure.
If it’s Mitt, I just don’t see him beating BO this November. The establishment has gone all out and it’s burning bridges (no, worse, scorched earth). There needs to be a systematic cleansing and primary challenges.
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I have been reading LI for a while now, but just registered today. I am a reformed liberal, and I awoke from sleeping conservatism prior to GW’s 2nd term.
I read many conservative blogs and opinion pieces, listen to conservative talk radio, and consider myself TEA party, but I am repulsed by the attacks against our ‘own’ by so-called conservatives. The champagne corks must be popping all over Democrat land.
I am sick of the attacks. I am sick of so-called conservatives sneering at the TEA party and belittling conservative America…are you listening, Ann? If I want ridicule, I will read HuffPo and the NY Times.
It has buoyed my spirits to see that LI is speaking out about this conservative shooting gallery.
This is a long-winded way of saying Thank You.
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What do you suppose George H.W. and Jeb Bush had to talk to Obama about yesterday? The picture really bothers me.
http://www.hapblog.com/2012/01/obama-hosts-george-hw-and-jeb-bush-at.html
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How he shouldn’t worry, that they’ll be handing him the election?
IOW, comparing notes on election strategy to help him get re-elected?
You do this, Mr. President, and we’ll do this.
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It is amusing and sad that some writing here characterize Newt Gingrich as not a fighter (based on what, one debate?). Newt was successfully fighting for conservationism – as Mark Levin put it – long before most people writing and commenting about him had learned to wipe their rear ends.
As his reward he has been Alinskied three times. Once by the GOP establishment over his arrogance and instance on certain conservative principals over their tax raising go along to get along mentality. (Just as Thatcher was driven out of office but elements of the Tory Party, her own party over – ironically – Britain’s relationship with the then new EU. Are the Brits thanking their lucky stars for her opposition? Probably not.)
Secondly by the Dems and the lamestream media over the GOP winning the house after almost half a century, the impeachment of WJ Clinton and other grudges arising from his success in building the GOP in the south and nationally. The Dems hate him. They know him and he knows them.
Now the third Alinskite attack on Newt is being lead by Romney and establishment statist elements of the GOP. He might survive it. At that point would he be considered Alinsky-proof?
Is he flawed, sure. Does he incorporate elements of what Beck calls a progressive Republican, yes (but certainly not more than Romney). At this point the GOP bandwagon is going to be pulled by a horse named Romney or Gingrich, or less likely Santorum or Paul. No one else, fantasies about brokered conventions and new candidates to the contrary.
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I can’t work up much enthusiasm for most of what Beck says anymore. IMO he went over some cliff like he used to tell people to worry about. Now when I watch him all I can think is “Someone needs his meds upped.”
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Read “The True Story of the Bilderberg Group” by Daniel Estulin for insight as to just why Thatcher was canned for resisting the EU.
And for just why GHW Bush met with Obama; they’ve been Chosen by world leaders in annual secret meetings.
Bill Clinton went to a Bilderberg meeting in 1992. Impressed them with his willingness to push NAFTA, a step on the road to one world bank, currency, etc. They chose him to be Prez.
John Edwards attended Bilderbery in 2004; they chose him to be the 2004 VP pick.
Sound too conspiracy? Follow @iowa4palin on twitter.
And read the book.
Along with “The Creature from Jekyll Island” about the making of the Federal Reserve.
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Sounds like a big story the media would cover, right? Townhall, National Review, et al – nothing. Why the silence?
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Coming to the US Presidential Election Campaign near you:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zC1XW_zKXc8
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