Furious conservatives have taken to blogs and Twitter on Thursday to vent their ire against what they allege is a conspiratorial dumping of twisted and manipulated negative attacks on Newt Gingrich.
The target of their fury: The Drudge Report.
For the last 48 hours, the conservative Web site led by Matt Drudge has become a virtual campaign arm for Mitt Romney, featuring huge, screaming headlines about Mr. Gingrich and his past.
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But in recent days, Mr. Drudge has used his valuable digital real estate for a frontal assault on Mr. Gingrich’s candidacy. For hours on Thursday, the site led with the headline: “INSIDER: GINGRICH REPEATEDLY INSULTED REAGAN.”
Another headline that was up for hours read: “NEWT 1988: ‘If Bush runs as continuation of Reaganism he will lose’…”
That headline linked to a carefully-cropped video that purported to show Mr. Gingrich saying that George H. W. Bush should run against the record of Ronald Reagan.
But as conservative supporters of Mr. Gingrich quickly pointed out, the complete video makes it clear that Mr. Gingrich was not criticizing Mr. Reagan’s record, but was rather suggesting that Mr. Bush — like any politician — should look to the future, not the past.
“Cherry-picked quotes, biased headlines and hyperlinks to Newt-hating op-eds in order to patch together an ugly and distorted mosaic of the former House speaker is not journalism,” Matt Barber, a blogger, wrote in a post titled “The Drudge Distort.” He continued, “It’s mercenary-style political prostitution.”
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The TEA Party Officially MIA
Mitt Romney is no where near conservative if we are all living on earth in the same reality and not on a moon colony (h/t: Newt). First of all, Romney-care is pretty much “gubment” run health care model if you haven’t noticed and Santorum did a great job of pawning him on it.
Looking back there was such outrage amongst the TEA party activists that the Dems where soundly beat in the mid-terms. Now you’re gonna vote Romney? What happened? Well, “conservative” at this point means “electability” and “moderate” also means “conservative”. The TEA party needs to understand words mean things. You’re trying to fit a square peg into a round whole.
Obama from the beginning has been preparing and waiting for Romney. As of late the left has done well to hide their elation until tonight on the CNN post game show when it was like a Romney festival with non-caffeinated pop for everyone. I honestly didn’t think Romney did that well let alone win.
The TEA Party needs to wake up. Romney, Dole, McCain have a lot in common they are RINO moderates that l-o-s-e to Democrats. The same elites we complain about spending too much and the same elite dirt bags that gave us McCain are same elites assailing Newt. Don’t believe everything you read.
I and many others will fight for Newt.
Redstate: And We Should Hate Newt Gingrich for This?
Well said.
All the members of the Republican Party who have been complicit and collaborative in the destruction of our nation in the past few decades always talking about smaller government while never fighting against the tide of creeping socialism have now come out against Newt Gingrich.
Yesterday, at National Review, Elliot Abrams attacked Newt Gingrich for attacking Ronald Reagan from the right.
Today, it is Bob Dole’s turn.
Bob Dole, you will remember from George Stephanoupolos’s memoir of his time in Clinton’s White House, totally cut the legs out from under Newt Gingrich and House Republicans during the government shut down. According to the Democrats, they were within twenty-four hours of caving to the House Republicans’ demands, but Bob Dole surprised them all by caving first.
Dole went on to lose to Bill Clinton and still hates Newt Gingrich for it because Gingrich was the face used to attack Dole — a man who would have been the hero in the fight had Dole not caved.
And we’re supposed to hate Newt Gingrich because Bob Dole caved to the Democrats twenty-four hours before they were going to cave to Gingrich?
Pffffft.
The fix is in for Romney, which just means when he is crushed by Barack Obama a lot of Republicans will have a lot of explaining to do. Newt may not be able to win. But Romney sure as hell can’t beat Obama either if Newt can’t win. The problem remains — Gingrich supporters intrinsically know this to be so and are happy to die fighting. Romney’s supporters are still deluding themselves.
Majority in U.S. Want Government to Act on Home Foreclosures
Majority in U.S. Want Government to Act on Home Foreclosures
Gallup Editor-in-Chief Frank Newport discusses Americans’ views on the federal government’s involvement in preventing housing foreclosures and reveals differences by age, race, political party, and income.
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Debt ceiling skyrockets to $16 trillion
Debt ceiling skyrockets to $16 trillion
Senate votes to approve an increase in the debt ceiling, allowing debt to balloon to more than 108 percent of the GDP.
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Obama Responds To Newt’s “Food Stamp President” Comments: Bush’s Fault…
Obama Responds To Newt’s “Food Stamp President” Comments: Bush’s Fault…
Nothing is ever his fault. Nothing. Via ABC News: Obama pushed back against what he called Republicans’ “rhetorical flourishes,” including Newt Gingrich’s oft-repeated contention that Obama is the “food stamp president.” “First of all, I don’t put people on food stamps,” Obama said. “People become eligible for food stamps. Second of all, the initial expansion [...]
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Americans Divided on Whether U.S. Economic System Is Unfair
Americans Divided on Whether U.S. Economic System Is Unfair
About half (49%) of Americans agree with President Obama’s claim that the U.S. economic system is unfair, while 45% say it is fair. At the same time, 62% say the U.S. economic system is fair to them personally.
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Congress Doesn’t Want to Give Up Its Insider Trading Privileges
Congress Doesn’t Want to Give Up Its Insider Trading Privileges
President Obama’s plea to ban Congressional insider trading may poll well and have bipartisan support, but it’s already facing stiff resistance from lawmakers the morning after his State of the Union address.
On Tuesday night, the president spoke in no uncertain terms: “Send me a bill that bans insider trading by Members of Congress, and I will sign it tomorrow,” he said. “Let’s limit any elected official from owning stock in industries they impact.” The remarks were cause for celebration for Breitbart editor Peter Schweizer, who authored a 2011 book exposing Congressional insider trading, and 60 Minutes, which ran a widely-viewed segment based on his book (CBS quicklyuploaded the portion of the speech last night). But early reactions from Congress (Republicans and Democrats) shouldn’t encourage much optimism.
“Easier said than done is my reaction,” Democratic Rep. Jim Moran tells Politico’s Manu Raju on the subject of restricting officials from owning stock they could impact. “Unless you are fairly precise about it, you can conceivably influence almost any corporation.”
“It’s all transparent – if you own stock, you have to report it,” said Republican Sen. Rob Portman, defending the current rules governing personal finances.
“It’s a good sentiment, but it becomes very difficult to buy a mutual fund and then wonder what they bought,” Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin, the No. 2 Democrat in the Senate, told the D.C. newspaper. “And many of us are trying to find some way to divorce ourselves from that possibility. It is hard when we consider so many different issues.”
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Republicans move to revive Keystone XL pipeline
Republicans move to revive Keystone XL pipeline
Obama administration’s refusal of Keystone pipeline is unacceptable, and the GOP moves to approve the project by other means.
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