The GNOP establishment are circling Newt's wagon...

Can YOU imagine what would happen if somehow Newt pulled off an upset tomorrow..? lol

Be so entertaining if he did!

After tomorrow,

Feisty will have to put away her overused unfunny snarky 'wife cheater' jokes, and take out her unfunny overused snarky 'multiple wives' Mormon jokes.

newdayDAWNING...RETURNED -- Well said!

Everyone knows Newt is as similar to Reagan as Romney is to a Massachusetts Liberal. But what else would one expect from the King of Spin? They all deserve each other -- Let's just hope we can keep that scary group as far away from power and the rest of us as possible (like the moon?).

True Patriot: I am still working on the idea that people take Newtie as Presidential candidate seriously. Have they FORGOTTEN the 90's?

newday,

Regular Americans, not political junkies like those here on FR, have a short memory of the bad stuff politicians do. They try and remember the past through rose colored glasses. Sad, but true.

Will people take Obama seriously as a Presidential candidate?

Only if they forget 2008-2012.

This Lou guy is full of crap as Newt is specifically mentioned by Reagan in the Reagan Diaries from January of 1983.

The video of Nancy Reagan giving the speech in 1995 is very compelling. I would like to know if Andrea Mitchell has seen the entire video or if she is shooting from the hip without any research? Visit www.edtalkradio.com and see the You Tube of the speech by Nancy Reagan.

Check out the video of Nancy saying it. It is what she said. Newt didn't lie about it. She did include the house with him, but she did in fact name him specificly and first. Can't see how they can say her words were taken out of context.

Listen to it yourself and tell me where he took her words out of context.

Is it just me, or isn't it just eerily weird that Gingrich is trying so hard to be the dead guy? And I don't mean Jesus...lol, politics at it's lowest. Grigrich, no matter how hard you try, you will not look or sound like Raygun... what about trying to be Newt?... haha, that's where the problem lies... nobody like Newt.

Can you say Grandiose Newt?

The facts are in a 1995 video, Nancy said that. This article is not true. Probably on You Tube as well.

Please, Newt uses Reagan's name early and often, mentioning Reagan 51 times combined in debates (perhaps a record compared to Rudy Giuliani using 9-11?), while Reagan mentioned Newt once. It's to the point of total ridiculousness:

At the Reagan presidential library this fall, Gingrich boasted of how "I helped Reagan create millions of jobs while he was president." And after modestly acknowledging his own less significant role than Reagan's, added, "We helped defeat the Soviet empire." Unmentioned by Gingrich then, or in any of the 2,414 debates during this campaign, was his 1985 criticism of President Reagan's historic meeting with Mikhail Gorbachev as "the most dangerous summit for the West since Adolf Hitler met with (British Prime Minister) Chamberlain at Munich in 1938."

In an interview on CNBC, Gingrich recently emphasized his close identification with the nation's 40th president: "I've done a movie on Ronald Reagan called 'Rendezvous With Destiny.' Callista and I did.

We've done a book on Ronald Reagan. You know I campaigned with Reagan. I first met Reagan in '74. I'm very happy to talk about Ronald Reagan."

Just like when Newt went to the House floor during the Gipper's second White House term and declared the president's Soviet policy a "failure." Here is what Gingrich said: "Measured against the scale and momentum of the Soviet empire's challenge, the Reagan administration has failed, is failing and without a dramatic, fundamental change in strategy will continue to fail. ... The burden of the failure frankly must be placed first upon President Reagan."

This was after Gingrich, as reported in the Congressional Record, had found Reagan responsible for our national "decay": "Beyond the obvious indicators of decay, the fact is that President Reagan has lost control of the national agenda." Students of Newt-speak will recognize that by "decay," Gingrich was generally referring to factors such as crime, illegitimate births and illiteracy.

These blatant contradictions between what Congressman Gingrich actually said at the time about President Reagan and what Candidate Gingrich now offers as fictitious reminiscences of his unwavering allegiance to Reagan remind me of one of the former speaker's own broadsides against Washington, D.C. "In this cold and ruthless city," he once said, "the center of hypocrisy is Capitol Hill." Newt Gingrich is quite obviously an expert on both subjects. -- Excerpts from "Newt Rewrites His Reagan Connection" by Mark Shields

No wonder that no one likes Newt. "Why do people take such an instant dislike to me?" asked a perplexed Gingrich, to whom Dole bluntly explained: "Because it saves them time."

If you really want to give the torch to the Grinch, read this first....

By CAROLYN LOCHHEAD

San Francisco Chronicle

WASHINGTON — No Republican has claimed the mantle of Ronald Reagan with more unabashed relish than former House Speaker Newt Gingrich.

"We created 16 million jobs," Gingrich claimed in South Carolina this month. "I helped Gov. Reagan become President Reagan," he told Floridians last week. Gingrich said his wife, Callista, considers herself "a cross between Nancy Reagan and Laura Bush with just a slight bit of Jackie Kennedy tossed in."

The claims have provoked a ferocious battle among conservatives over Gingrich's claims to a central role in the "Reagan Revolution" that gave birth to modern conservatism.

Alarmed by the possibility of a Gingrich victory over former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, several conservative leaders and former Reagan officials have denounced Gingrich's claims as fantasy. Defending himself in Thursday's GOP debate in Jacksonville, Gingrich cited a 1995 speech by Nancy Reagan saying her husband had passed the conservative torch to him.

Lou Cannon, Reagan's biographer, said Gingrich's role in the Reagan presidency was "practically nonexistent."

"Here's a guy who doesn't rate a line in Reagan's memoir and whose only line in the Reagan diaries is a reference in which Reagan is saying that his proposal is not a good idea, which it wasn't," Cannon said in a telephone interview from his home near Santa Barbara, Calif., referring to a Gingrich proposal for a budget freeze.

"We were foot soldiers in the Reagan army," said former Rep. Vin Weber, a Minnesota Republican who worked closely with Gingrich in the minority during the first two years of Reagan's presidency in 1981 and 1982, when the core of Reagan's economic program was enacted.

"I was just there to help out, and that's true of Newt, too. ... The notion that he played any part in forging the Reagan Revolution is just reinventing history."

The most blistering critique has come from Elliott Abrams, Reagan's assistant secretary of state, who wrote in the National Review last week that Gingrich "spewed insulting rhetoric at Reagan, his top aides, and his policies to defeat communism."

Gingrich's allies said his role in the Reagan years may have been small but Reagan knew who he was.

"Newt has good reason to recall the Reagan years; he was part of it," said Annelise Anderson, a former Reagan deputy director of the Office of Management and Budget who is now at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. "Newt Gingrich was a creative and thoughtful young backbencher in the Reagan years. Reagan was aware of him. ... We were all much aware of Newt Gingrich."

On policy, Reagan was not a pure conservative by today's standards. Facing a Democratic Congress, he raised taxes three times and signed into law an expansion of Medicare that was later repealed, said Daniel Mitchell, an expert on supply-side tax policy for the libertarian Cato Institute.

Gingrich championed welfare reform and a balanced budget in the 1990s during the Clinton administration, but later supported an individual health care mandate, efforts to combat climate change and other conservative apostasies.

Lee Edwards, a scholar at the conservative Heritage Foundation who has written a Reagan biography and a book on the conservative movement, places Gingrich in a pantheon of four conservatives, with Reagan, Robert Taft and Barry Goldwater.

Edwards said Gingrich earned that spot for leading House Republicans to victory in 1994, but faulted his performance once in office. He said Gingrich lacks two of Reagan's core attributes, "prudence" and "wisdom."

On style, he finds little similarity between the two men. Reagan was "much more engaging, much more charismatic, much better at connecting with people than Mr. Gingrich is," Edwards said. "Reagan was always very, very self-deprecating and very modest about his achievements," while Gingrich's posture tends to be, "I'm very, very smart. Look at me."

E-mail Carolyn Lochhead at clochhead(at)sfchronicle.com. For more stories visit scrippsnews.com

Gingrich was never a part of the Reagan Revolution and his claim that he was standing side by side with him is another example of his re-writing history.....

Michael Reagan agrees with Newt.

Michael Reagan has been on talk radio for years and thinks that Rush Limbaugh is a great conservative.

If he had any credibility he lost it years ago.

Nuff said?

I am still working on the idea that people take Newtie as Presidential candidate seriously. Have they FORGOTTEN the 90's?

It's called selective amnesia.

What's with all this Reagan worship anyway?

Interesting that no candidate (including Newt) is carrying the "torch" from Bush/Cheney. Hmm, odd don't you think? LOL

No one will be interested in carrying the obama torch either.

The GOP establishment is going to have a problem with their angry base.

phine,

They already are having problems with the base.

It is fascinating to watch the GOP try to find a nominee... and can he unify a party that has a fracture identity.

The Democratic party is going to have a problem with their angry candidates nationwide, who will be dragged down by their failed President at the top of the ticket.

They will start bailing from the sinking SS Obama soon. Man the lifeboats!

Hey ,bob 188...

this just in.

President Obama approval rating is at 53% in a poll published today. First time since 2010.

Commentary on the radio said people said they liked what they heard in SOTU address.

Bob, your use of the ship metaphor is too cute by half.... please don't go there.

Northstar you need to check your facts. I love it when people throw around sound bites or misinformation as if they were facts. 27% of the people that watched the SToU turned it off or went to a different program within the first 5 minutes. Even much of the MSM stated BO address was recycled from prior years. Regardless of party affiliation, this has been a very failed administration. For the country to move ahead, people have to get past blind loyalty of their own party and we all demand the best of of all candidates running.

Leave it to Andrea Mitchell to explain that when Nancy read the words "Ronnie passed the torch to Newt" that she was really referring to Congress in general and not to Newt.

Did you know there really was a St. Ronald. He was Scottish. Died in 1158 as a martyr

Will Newt attack/question Mrs. Reagan?.....Afterall, Newt knows best.....Newt knows all!

Will Newt attack/question Mrs. Reagan?

He better think twice if he wants to be president, and she meant Newt and Congress, not just Newt alone.

Newt has been taking it out of context like everything else he takes and twists.

I've been saying this for weeks, Reagan really wanted to get rid of Gingrich, he intensely disliked him over his visits with Gorbachev, and on a number of occasions, I heard it with my own ears.

This represents Nancy coming to the defense of Ronnie, and if you think for one minute that Nancy doesn't still have some pull in the party, think again, she knows where a lot of the bones are buried.

Al Hunt is a leftist, who are you kidding?

bob he does the job without the political spin

Clinton did not take Newt seriously either - at first.

Oh yea...This is Fact...Not, LOL

Um, Bob, the problem started under Bush - just like Hoover. And it to FDR to clean up the mess Hoover left him. Don't believe me? It was in all the papers and history books!

Just curious....will a second term Obama blame the first term Obama for his failures?

Probably not. President's never blame themselves. They wait for the historians or the other party to do that. (See, I am being honest here)

BTW, this is off topic but I have a bit of a rant on political ads. FIRST they run a super pac ad on ESPN. NOW they just ran one on Pandora. I don't care which party it is, leave my sports and music alone! That's where I go to escape all the political madness!

Sorry, Bob, had to get that off my chest. Back to regular programming.

bob 188--Sorry--that President with the worst economic record since Hoover was term-limited (Thank Heavens) in 2008--you must remember him--millions of unemployed workers and foreclosed homeowners certainly do.

Bob-1887910 -- Let's see how Teapublicans deal with taking credit versus responsibility for deregulation, the wars, and Bush tax cuts that resulted in record deficits and the Great Recession, versus the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (stimulus) and Affordable Health Care Act ("Obamacare") and saving the auto industry that HAS created/saved jobs and manufacturing, and health care reform savings we are already seeing (though most of it won't go into effect until 2014).

Teapublicans can't have it both ways, so it's fun to watch them squirm, and you getting your panties in a twist.

I love the smell of a freshly washed brain in the morning.

phine,

...And it to FDR to clean up the mess Hoover left him. Don't believe me? It was in all the papers and history books!

I do kinda got to disagree with you here, it is widely held by today's historians and economists that FDR's new deal really held up the economic recovery approximately ten years.

In fact it is now accepted that the war spending that started in '38 is what slowly began the recovery, and the WPB (War Production Board: ie, complete government control of the economy) from December of '41 on to '48 is what corrected the economy.

You should have taken more economics courses. The economic problems we are having to day are because we abandoned "Reaganomics" and went back to Keynes. You forget that BOTH of the Bushes were quite liberal. From Eisenhower on, the only conservative president was Regan.

Not SoFast,

Your not going to change baldeagle's mind on anything, in fact you won't chang any liberals mind around here, Supply side economics is what is needed plus the re-enactment of Glass-Stegal. but you will never get them to agree, They have their heads so far up Keynes's azz that they cant breath.

Tired Old Guy,

We had a woman named Mary Jane Anderson who ran for mayor every year for decades. She did leagally change her name to Mary Jane Reagan after her favorite president. She ran for state auditor in the Republican primary and she won hands down. The state Republican party was appalled. They had to spend a lot of money to let voters know in the general election that she did not have the party endorsement. Lucklly, that year the DFL had a clean sweep of state offices.

She was quite a character.

That's too funny Northstar! Unfortunately it's also an indictment on the lack of knowledge the voting public often brings with them to the ballot box.

You are obviously jealous of his intellect and his ability to construct paragraphs.

he might be, but I'm worried about his lack of common sense and logic, and, his inability to construct truthful sentences.

I did, she mentions Barry, Ronnie and then the House of Representatives, then she repeats it essentially saying Newt and the House.

It is clear she is giving the emphasis to the House and not Newt. the only way Newt is singled out is if you seriously take it out of context. Which is what this appears to be and is a common problem with anything Newt.