{"id":16740,"date":"2012-01-26T17:20:10","date_gmt":"2012-01-26T17:20:10","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-01-26T17:20:10","modified_gmt":"2012-01-26T17:20:10","slug":"coordinated_avalanche_against_newt_doesn_t_match_my_memory_of_reagan_years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2012\/01\/26\/coordinated_avalanche_against_newt_doesn_t_match_my_memory_of_reagan_years\/","title":{"rendered":"Coordinated Avalanche Against Newt Doesn\u2019t Match My Memory of Reagan Years"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: How long\u2019s it gonna be, folks, before we start seeing billboards all over, Florida, other upcoming primary states with Rick Perry on \u2019em saying, “Miss me yet?” How long\u2019s that gonna be? You remember when they had the George Bush billboards, “Miss me yet?” a couple months into the regime? <\/line><\/a><\/line><\/p>\n

Anyway, great to have you here, folks, already Thursday, fastest week in the media. Goes even faster when one of the days you spend 12 hours, 10 hours, whatever it was, in an airplane, like I did? Great to have you here, as always, it really is a thrill and a delight. Telephone number if you want to be on the program today, 800-282-2882, and the e-mail address, ElRushbo@eibnet.com<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Boy, this Newt <\/a>stuff. Did you know any of this Newt<\/a> stuff, Snerdley? Let\u2019s go through the list. By the way, you should know, there\u2019s a blog in the Washington Post. It\u2019s called The Plum Line and it\u2019s written by a guy named Greg Sargent, and I think he used to be at Editor and Publisher back when it was in business. He was one of the guys there when it went out of business. Very, very left-leaning. He\u2019s got a post that includes this. “The New York Times reports today — based on unclear sourcing — that Mitt Romney<\/a> has endorsed a strategy of raising doubts about Newt Gingrich\u00c2\u2019s \u2019emotional stability.'” And then there are others that are raising questions here about Newt and his mendacity, his forthrightness. <\/p>\n

It is incredible. Yeah, yeah. Well, during the CNN debate with John King, he said that he had all kinds of friends that could vouch for the fact that he had never told his wife he wanted an open marriage. And so yesterday Newt in the campaign said, (paraphrasing) “Nope, nope, there aren\u2019t any friends. It\u2019s just my two daughters. What I said in the debate, that wasn\u2019t true.” But that\u2019s just the tip of the iceberg. Here\u2019s the front page of Drudge. Let\u2019s give you the headlines. <\/line><\/p>\n

Newt flashback, 1983: “Reagan Responsible for National Decay.” This is Newt saying these things. <\/p>\n

Newt 1986: “The Reagan Administration Has Failed, Is Failing.” <\/p>\n

Newt, 1988: “If Bush Runs as a Continuation of Reaganism, He Will Lose.” Now, of course, Bush ran as a continuation of Reaganism, and he won, and he soundly defeated the loser, Michael Dukakis. <\/p>\n

Then here\u2019s the story on the debate claim. “During last Thursday\u00c2\u2019s debate, when CNN moderator John King asked about Marianne Gingrich\u00c2\u2019s interview on ABC accusing Newt Gingrich of having requested an ‘open marriage,\u2019 part of Gingrich\u00c2\u2019s crowd-pleasing answer was this charge: ‘Let me be quite clear. The story is false. Every personal friend I have who knew us in that period said the story was false. We offered several of them to ABC to prove it was false. They weren\u00c2\u2019t interested because they would like to attack any Republican.\u2019<\/line> <\/line>“Now, last night, King reported on his show CNN\u00c2\u2019s John King, USA that Gingrich had spoken inaccurately when he said that friends had been offered to ABC to rebut the story. ‘Well, tonight, after persistent questioning by our staff, the Gingrich campaign concedes now Speaker Gingrich was wrong both in his debate answer and in our interview yesterday,\u2019 King said. ‘Gingrich spokesman R.C. Hammond says the only people the campaign offered to ABC were the Speaker\u00c2\u2019s two daughters from his first marriage.'” So he\u2019s out there, and he told John King during the debate, this is one of the answers that got a standing O. That he\u2019d offered ABC a whole bunch of friends of his to rebut this point that he never said to his wife he wanted an open marriage. That turns out not to be true. <\/line><\/p>\n

Then there is YouTube video in 1988: “Bush Won\u2019t Win if He Runs to Continue Reaganism.” Of course, Bush 41 won in a landslide in 1988 and it was largely because the American people wanted four more years of Reagan. There are other examples of this profound criticism of Reagan. Drudge\u2019s lead headline is, “Insider: Gingrich Repeatedly Insulted Reagan.” Now, when I saw all of this stuff — and obviously it\u2019s a coordinated document dump here, opposition research dump. It\u2019s obviously coordinated. And this stuff, by the way, that\u2019s on Greg Sargent\u2019s blog, Plum Line, that\u2019s the thinly sourced stuff in the New York Times about Newt being emotionally unstable and Romney putting that out, that\u2019s why Romney is not liked by the Republicans that don\u2019t like him. It\u2019s that kind of stuff that his campaign puts out. <\/p>\n