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	Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24 7 Podcast.
	How long is it going to be, folks, before we start seeing billboards all over Florida?
	Other soon upcoming primary estates.
	With a Rick Perry on him saying, Miss Me Yet.
	How long's that going to be?
	Even though that the George Bush Billboard's Miss Me Yet, a couple uh months into the uh into the regime.
	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 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 email address l rushbow at EIB net.com.
	Boy, this Newt stuff.
	Did you know any of this Newt stuff, Sturdley?
	Let's go through the list.
	By the way, you should know there's a there's a blog in the Washington Post.
	It's called a Plumb Line, and it's written by a guy named Greg Sargent.
	And I think he used to be an editor and publisher back when it was in business.
	He was the one of the guys there when it went out of business.
	Very, very left-leaning.
	And he's got a post that includes this.
	The New York Times reports today, based on unclear sourcing, that Romney has endorsed a strategy of raising doubts about Newt Gingrich's emotional stability.
	And then there are others that are that are uh raising questions here about Newt uh and and his uh mendacity, his uh forthrightness.
	Uh it is incredible.
	I I Yeah, yeah.
	I mean, well, he he he told during uh during the CNN debate with John King, he said that he had all kinds of friends that could vouch for the fact that he never told his wife he wanted an open marriage.
	And so yesterday, Newton and Campaign had to say, no, no, there aren't any friends.
	It's just my two daughters.
	Uh what I said in the debate that wasn't true.
	I mean, but that's that's just the uh tip of the iceberg.
	Here, here's just the front page of Drudge.
	Let's give you the headlines.
	Newt flashback 1983, Reagan responsible for national decay.
	This is Newt saying these things.
	Newt 1986, the Reagan administration has failed, is failing.
	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 a loser.
	Michael Dukakis.
	Uh then here's the here's the story on the uh on the debate claim.
	During last Thursday's debate, when CNN moderator John King asked about Mary Ann Gingrich's interview on ABC accusing Newt of having requested an open marriage.
	Part of Newt's answer was, let me be clear.
	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't interested in talking to ABC, or ABC wasn't interested because uh they just want to attack any Republican.
	Last night, John King reported on his show on CNN, John King tonight, the USA, that Gingrich had spoken inaccurately when he said that friends had been offered to ABC to rebut the story.
	And after persistent questioning, the Gingrich campaign concedes now that Newt Gingrich was wrong, both in his debate answer and in the interview yesterday, King said.
	Gingrich spokesman R. C. Hammond says the only people the campaign offered to ABC were the speaker's two daughters from his first marriage.
	So he's out there, and he told John Kidd this during the debate.
	This is one of the uh answers that that got a standing Otta he'd offered ABC a whole bunch of friends of his to rebut this point that his uh uh wife never that he never said to his wife he wanted an open marriage.
	That turns out to be not true.
	Then there is YouTube video of this.
	In 1988, Bush won't win if he runs to continue Reaganism.
	Of course, Bush 41 won in a landslide in 1988, and and it was largely because the American people wanted four more years of Reagan.
	There are other examples of this that of profound criticism of Reagan.
	Drudge's lead headline is insider Gingrich repeatedly insulted Reagan.
	Now, when I saw all this stuff, and then obviously it's a coordinated uh uh document dump here, opposition research dump, it's obviously coordinated.
	And this stuff, by the way, that that's on Greg Sargent's blog, Plumline, uh, that's the the the thinly sourced stuff in the New York Times about Newt being emotionally unstable and Romney putting that out.
	That's why Romney is not liked by the Republicans that don't like him.
	It's that kind of stuff that his campaign puts out that that, if you want to know if you've ever wanted why why do these people hate Romney so much?
	2008.
	You recall Huckabee and McCain hated Romney.
	Now they both love Romney, but back then they hated Romney, is because of stuff like this.
	He's doing stuff like this in ads before they had any money to run their own ads.
	And I'll tell you what, the the way this hit me, I've I've told you people this before.
	I first heard of Newt Gingrich when he was perhaps the premier defender of Ronald Reagan.
	This was in the early 1980s, of course.
	Reagan assumed office in 1981.
	I was working in Kansas City.
	I, 1979 to 1983, I was working for the Kansas City Royals.
	At 1983, I I left the Royals and corporate America and went back to radio.
	I was going to give it one more shot, because that was my passion.
	It's what I loved and it's what I did best.
	And I learned that that corporate structures were not for me.
	But even during those last two years, of course, I'm in my private time, which there wasn't a lot of when you work for a professional baseball team in 18-hour days during homestands and so forth, but nevertheless, I was I was as immersed in politics then as I am now.
	This is what's funny is nobody at the Royals knew it because nobody ever talked about it.
	All you did was talk baseball there.
	If you talked about anything other than what was in the sports page, there was something wrong with you.
	So nobody I worked with had any idea that I had any interest whatsoever or knowledge whatsoever in politics, but I'm watching this stuff.
	What happened was the moment Reagan's inaugurated, the Democrats, the media, it was as vicious an assault on a human being on a Republican as there is today.
	Now, those of you who were not paying attention back then or who were too young to pay attention, don't doubt me.
	It was vicious.
	And Reagan did not have a media on his side.
	That was the three networks and CNN and the newspapers.
	There was no talk radio.
	There were no blogs, of course.
	There wasn't the internet, there was no alternative media.
	Reagan had National Review.
	That was his lone ally in the media, William Buckley's National Review.
	That was it.
	And early on in the Reagan years, does the name David Stockman ring a bill?
	David Stockman, the first budget director for Reagan, within the first year, goes rogue and says Reaganomics won't work, can't work.
	It was it was it was bad.
	It was a total backstab.
	The whole premise, that's where the the name supplier trickle down actually got created, I think, for the most and became uh standard vernacular in the popular lexicon.
	Uh that and supply side, and I remember the stories about Reagan taking Stockman to the woodshed.
	That's a quote from the stories.
	That's how it was described, so he got his mind right.
	But that unleashed a torrent from Tip O'Neill from every Democrat.
	I mean, all these people, Reagan lied, Bush was right in his Vugu economics.
	Oh, we're all this is horrible.
	Remember the Great Recession at the time here.
	The Democrats love what Stockman did, and the guy who self-appointed himself to stop all this was Newt.
	And that's where I first heard of him.
	Newt Gingrich and Bob Walker and a couple of others that were members of what was called the Conservative Opportunity Society.
	I don't know whether it had been named as such yet, but it was a bunch of young uh relatively new members of the House on the Republican side who were conservatives.
	And they had special orders every night once the House had finished its official business.
	As long as somebody shows up on the floor of the House to speak, the cameras on C-SPAN stay on.
	It didn't matter that nobody else was in the House chamber.
	They stayed on until the last person left the floor.
	And Newt and his guys were in there five hours a night.
	And they were rotating.
	Each of them would speak for an hour.
	They would yield to each other.
	They would uh interrupt themselves for questions and so forth.
	But the cameras only were focused on the well.
	You never knew that there was no audience there, except there was never any plause.
	You never knew that the House chamber was empty unless you knew what special orders were.
	And this went on for years.
	And it's where I heard of Newt Gingrich.
	And Newt had appointed himself the personal defender of Ronald Reagan and had pointed himself the singular person with his buddies to counter all of what he thought were the lies of the day being spouted by the media and the Democrats.
	Then I leave the Royals and I get back into radio.
	And I decide that I want to get this guy Gingrich on the air to have a chat with him.
	And it was difficult.
	Couldn't do it.
	The requests that Gingrich was getting were overwhelming.
	He wasn't really interested in doing a lot of them.
	He didn't have a whole lot of time.
	The station I was working for was owned by the Mormon Church, Bonneville Broadcasting.
	It turned out that somebody inside Bonneville Broadcasting unearthed a contact, was able to get to Newt.
	And I got an interview with him for about 20 or 25 minutes.
	Don't remember anything about the interview.
	That's I'm just little details here to spice up the story.
	But this went on for years.
	And it wasn't just the defense of Reagan.
	Newt Gingrich was ripping the Speaker of the House the time Tip O'Neill.
	And when Tip left and Fort Worthlett Jim Wright came in, the assault continued.
	It was everything you wish was happening today.
	It was everything you wish the entire Republican Party was doing today.
	And it was led by Newt Gingrich.
	And what was he doing?
	He's defending Reagan.
	Now, all of this stuff that hit Drudge and everywhere else last night about Newt telling everybody the country goes to hell if they continue Reaganism and that Newt insulted Reagan and that the Reagan administration had failed, Iran controversy.
	I never heard any of that.
	I got back in, I started doing this particular program in Sacramento in 1984, and I was just as immersed in national politics then as I am now.
	And I can honestly tell you, I'm not, and I'm not denying it happened.
	Don't misunderstand.
	I'm just telling you, because it did happen.
	I've got the audio.
	The YouTube videos out there.
	Newt did say this stuff.
	I just don't remember it.
	I don't remember anybody in 1988 telling George Bush, you're going to lose big if you just continue Reagan, because the whole Republican Party strategy was to fool Republicans into thinking that that's what Bush was going to do.
	Their whole strategy was to tell the Republicans, okay, I'm I'm I remember George Bush at that New Orleans convention.
	He talked to him, his theme was I'm going to complete my mission.
	And it was based off the fact he had been shot down in World War II.
	They had the video of him being rescued at sea after his plane, he had a parachute out of his plane to be shot down.
	Great hero story.
	Complete my mission.
	And it was all intertwined with continuing what had happened under Reagan economically.
	Now you people know that I have blessed with a pretty good memory.
	And I don't remember Newt Gingrich in 1980.
	I'm not denying it happened.
	I'm just telling this stuff was a total shock to me last night when I learned that Newt had said this stuff.
	And well, don't know.
	Well, we've got the audio and we'll listen to it, whether it was off the cuff or whether, because Newt does.
	It's like he does.
	The latest thing he blurted out is a moon colony.
	We have a moon colony.
	We have 13,000 people on the moon.
	We can make it the 51st state.
	And we can have honeymoons in space.
	Honeymoons and weddings in space and be really fun because of weightlessness.
	Wait till people find out how much fun you can have when you're weightless.
	This stuff just came rolling out yesterday.
	Now, here's the problem with that.
	Here we are in Florida, and Obama has effectively killed a space program, so obviously Newt says, hey, I got an idea for space.
	We'll colonize the moon.
	We'll make it the 51st state.
	We'll have weddings and honeymoons and weightlessness.
	Well, the problem with that is the other part of his campaign is focused on reducing spending and reforming entitlements.
	And some modification in healthcare spending, social security spending.
	So you're in a state where that is a crucially important thing to people, and you're telling you to do all that, and then at the same time you're going to go colonize the moon.
	It was a, it's a it's a disconnect.
	But that would that would fall under the uh category of grandiose.
	And it just came out of nowhere.
	Then National Review Online has a devastating piece on Newt.
	Elliot Abrams, who was in the Reagan administration.
	Foreign policy.
	Elliot Abrams is married to the daughter of Norman Pedoreth.
	Elliot Abrams is impeccable.
	Reputation, his character.
	I know Elliot Abrams.
	In fact, last time I was at the White House, he was walking out of the West Wing as I walked in.
	He's always been nice.
	Stopped, shook my hand, thanked me for saving the country.
	All those guys always say that, and then they smile and walk off.
	But anyway, this piece, Elliot Abrams, it just slices and dices with the most harmless tone.
	There's nothing vicious about it.
	You've got another piece by Bob Tyrrell, known in public as R. Emmett Tyrrell.
	He started The American Spectator.
	It just dumps on Newt, and Elliot Abrams' piece specifically focuses on Newt's relationship with Reagan and how there really wasn't one.
	So it's this is obviously a coordinated attack that's designed to take Newt out here in Florida.
	That's what's going on.
	It's happening.
	We all knew stuff like this was going to happen.
	We all worry about when candidates are going to implode and this kind of thing.
	I've got to take a break here.
	I'm really up against it here, so sit tight.
	Now you've got Nancy Reagan.
	People have produced either a letter or a video from Nancy Reagan saying that Newt would be the obvious inheritor of Reaganism.
	And you've got Michael Reagan.
	Ronald Reagan's son, who's endorsed Newt.
	This Elliott Abrams piece, though, folks, of all the stuff that's out there is probably the most devastating because Elliot Abrams' credentials are impeccable.
	He almost went to jail for the cause.
	here's one thing he says about Newt.
	As a new member of Congress in the Reagan years, and I was an assistant secretary of state, Gingrich voted with the president regularly, but equally often spewed insulting rhetoric at Reagan, his top aides, his policies defeat communism.
	Gingrich was voluble and certain in predicting that Reagan's policies would fail, and in all of this he was dead wrong.
	But this there's more than just an opposition research document up here going on.
	Elliot Abrams, Bob Tyrell coming out with some of this stuff.
	It is overwhelming.
	And it happens in one day.
	I got to take another break because I went long in the first segment.
	It was a bonus.
	Don't get mad.
	We'll be right back.
	It's just weird.
	All this stuff, it's just weird.
	This stuff about Newt coming out here.
	And by the way, everything's not about Newt today, folks.
	In fact, some of the real news happening, you may not have heard this.
	Breaking news from Fox.
	Barney Frank, who's to be tally from Congress, 71 years old, is going to marry his longtime partner in Massachusetts.
	I said a heck with the Newt stuff.
	I mean, that's big news.
	That's breaking news out there on Fox.
	And yes, yes, yes, I'm gonna get to Obama and Jan Brewer and that little incident on the tarmac, folks.
	I'm gonna explain that to you in total.
	I know exactly what happened there and why.
	And that incident tells us exactly who the real Obama is.
	Also, this, folks, we are doing some fun tests here in uh in different markets with uh two if by tea.
	And what we're doing is it's if it's gonna pop up in stores every now and then as just a little sort of like along the lines you remember uh a Today show they used to have a feature, where in the world is Matt Lauer.
	Uh we're gonna have a sort of the same kind of thing.
	Where today is two if by tea?
	And we're just having it pop up in various stores out there for the pure fun of it.
	So today, if you happen to be uh at Jungle Gyms, it's it's uh outside Cincinnati, it's in Fairfield, Ohio.
	It's on Dixie Highway, 5440, Dixie Highway of Fairfield, Ohio.
	Um we got it on display there.
	You go in to Jungle Gyms and you can buy two of my tea.
	I think we've got all the flavors there.
	How did what?
	Well, that's for us today.
	How do you get your store on the list?
	We got all that handled.
	That's what's our business.
	That's we're just we're just uh we're not gonna do it every day.
	We're just having fun with it.
	And I'd put Rush Revere in every day or every week, it might be a different store.
	Today it's Jungle Gyms on 5440 Dixie Highway in Fairfield, Ohio, while supplies last.
	Which probably isn't gonna be very long now, but it's out there.
	We got all the flavor.
	Well, people have said, you know, we like ordering on the internet, but it would be great to be able to go down the store.
	Okay, well, there's if you know you want to book a plane reservation of Cincinnati, go to Jungle Gyms, you can do it.
	Or if you live there, drive on over.
	Now, back to this Newt stuff.
	Um I got a note from Jeffrey Lord.
	Jeffrey Lord writes for the American Spectator, which is Bob Tyrell's bunch, and Bob Tyrell has is the devastating piece.
	Newt is Bill Clinton only worse.
	Oh, it's devastating as Elliot Abrams piece, it's devastating, and they all happen the same day.
	So Jeffrey Lord says, Oh, wait a minute now.
	Nancy Reagan, 1995, Goldwater Institute, after the Reagan era.
	And Jeff Lord says, believe me, Nancy Reagan thought for a nanosecond that Newt was anti-Reagan, she would never have been on the same platform with him.
	And I can vouch for it.
	If you I've never seen a more protective wife of anybody, Nancy Reagan.
	You in your life, you said one thing against Ronald Reagan, you are gone.
	You were banished.
	You were never allowed to be in the same room.
	I mean, it was talk to the people who knew them both and worked with them, and they'll confirm that.
	And so Jeff Lord says, well, now, if all this that we're hearing yesterday is true, what the hell's Nancy Reagan doing out there giving Newt basically a huge award?
	She said the dramatic movement of 1995, it was going on then, is an outgrowth of a much earlier crusade that goes back half a century.
	Barry Goldwater handed a torch to Ronnie, her husband, and in turn, Ronnie turned the torch over to Newt and the Republican members of Congress to keep that dream alive.
	That's Nancy Reagan 1995.
	Now, Jeff Lord worked in the Reagan White House.
	He says, he's posted that Elliot Abrams never said a word to him at the time about Newt.
	Not one.
	And Jeff says, suffice to say the political office of the Reagan White House made it our job to defend Reagan from Republican members of Congress.
	I never heard any criticism of Newt either.
	First hand from Elliot or secondhand from anybody else.
	And then he posts his take on all this at American Spectator.
	So what what do we have here?
	Tyrrell says that Newt Gingrich is Bill Clinton without Clinton's charm.
	But this is a long list of people here who have just come out, both barrels blazing on the same day or within close proximity to the same day.
	Elliot Abrams, Bob Tyrrell, Drudge, Britt Hume, Fox News, Dr. Krauthammer, the New York Sun, the National Review, Vin Weber.
	And we've got the audio.
	I don't have it ready to play yet.
	It's it's back in the stacks and where I'll find it eventually.
	But it did say all this stuff.
	I just, I had I didn't know it.
	That's what has me stunned.
	All this, my memory of Newt Gingrich is as a premier defender of Ronald Reagan's.
	This stuff caught me totally by surprise.
	And all these people, Elliot Abrams, Bob Tyrell, uh, Dr. Krauthammer, they've all got impeccable credentials.
	And then there's this.
	This is a post at the corner, National Review Online, Operation Chaos in reverse.
	It's actually a uh front-page Washington Post story.
	Liberal groups join in Florida ad war against Romney.
	Newt Gingrich isn't the only one trying to beat Romney in Florida.
	Several liberal groups are funding new ad campaigns in Florida, targeting the vulnerable GOP presidential candidate, part of an unusually bold effort by Democrat supporters to bolster Obama's chances in November by influencing the Republican primary.
	So the Democrats are doing Operation Chaos here in Florida.
	The unions are running anti-Romney ads.
	Big time.
	All over the state.
	This is an expensive media market.
	There are 10 sizable significant media markets in the state of Florida.
	You need a lot of money to saturate this state with TV ads.
	And these pro-Obama people are coming in.
	You've got a $1 million ad buy from the American Federation of State County Municipal Employees.
	That's the nation's largest public employee union.
	They're focusing on Romney's history as head of Bain Capitol.
	SEIU and Priorities USA Action, a pro-Obama super PAC have also jointly launched a Spanish language radio campaign in Florida, accusing Romney of having two faces.
	And they're even Reuters has a hit piece on Marco Rubio coming tomorrow.
	I mean, folks, everybody involved in politics with a vested interest has opened both barrels of the shotgun and Are firing at everybody.
	Every Republican of note and of stature is under a full-fledged assault in this state today.
	If you didn't know better after this Reuters piece, you would think that Marco Rubio contributed money to Adolf Hitler's campaign.
	That's how bad this hit piece is.
	It's just all over.
	And then Newt, Newt was on Univision, I think it was.
	He was on Univision.
	And he was talking out earlier some weeks ago how he was gave depositions in his divorce case.
	There weren't any depositions in his divorce case.
	He didn't give any depositions.
	His wife told him that there weren't any depositions.
	So everybody's scratching their heads.
	Why would Newt say that all kinds of friends were available?
	and To prove to ABC.
	Well, why would why would he why would he do this?
	Why would he tell ABC that he had all kinds of friends who could back up his claim that his wife was lying, Marianne was lying, that he never did ask for an open marriage, and then tells Univision that he had depositions in his divorce when there weren't any depositions.
	And then this grandiose stuff with the moon colony.
	You add all this up.
	It's amazing.
	I'm you know, I had hopes that this campaign would go on and on and on and on all the way to the uh convention.
	And I'll tell you something, it's happening.
	You know, folks, Romney's getting hit too.
	Romney's doing his own version of it.
	He's got some imploding going on out there with Romney care.
	There's a devastating ad that somebody's put together pointing out that Obamacare is Romney care.
	Oh, it's one of Newt's super PECs.
	Uh and there's another ad uh that that makes the bridge, completes the bridge from Romney care to Obamacare and doesn't with Romney's two advisors that went from Massachusetts to the Oval Office.
	I mean, there's an there there the point is there one guy is emerging entirely unscathed in all of this, and that's Santorum.
	Santorum, nobody is saying a negative word of it.
	He's not under assault by anybody.
	And we want this campaign to go on and on.
	There are two reasons.
	There are two primary reasons that we want this campaign to go on.
	I know a lot of people are panicked.
	They can't handle all this negative stuff about Republicans in the media every day.
	But it's going to happen if they have to lie and make stuff up.
	This is going to happen.
	Republicans are hit every day in the media.
	There's no way this can be stopped.
	He's going to have to come to grips with it.
	There's nothing I can do, there's nothing anybody can do to stop the media assault on any Republican candidate or high profile personality.
	So that's it's going to happen.
	What we don't want to happen, if we if we happen to choose a nominee after Florida, if our race is essentially over after Florida, and we have our nominee either after Super Tuesday or right at Super Tuesday, then guess what?
	Obama can start his focused negative ads on our nominee in March and run them continually through the election.
	If the campaign can be dragged out, no winner until right before the convention, and Obama can't focus specifically on the nominee.
	They have to focus on everybody that's running, and it could delay them.
	And Obama's got a lot of money.
	If we can, and one of the ways of equalizing the disparity in the money is to have a long-drawn-out campaign that delays Obama's focused spending anti-Rominee.
	Because we can compete financially in a two, three-month campaign that starts in September, but we can't keep up with them starting in March.
	Or it would be, it would be hard.
	Preferable way.
	The second reason is keep this conservative debate going.
	In the news, in the media each and every day.
	So as long as Obama doesn't know who specifically to destroy, he's got to aim it at uh at everybody, and that means uh dividing and diluting his um his resources.
	Newt's also stepped in it too.
	He said that he was a Goldwater supporter when he was a Rockefeller state chair.
	That These are the kinds of things that that if you heard with their early part of the campaign that people worry about what Newt is going to say at any time, and you don't know where it's going to come from, and you don't know.
	Yeah, he did say he said he's a Goldwater supporter.
	He was a Rockefeller state chair.
	He's a regional chair for Rockefeller.
	Nelson Rockefeller, yeah.
	Yeah.
	For the Rockefeller wing of the party.
	Correct.
	Exactly right.
	Must take a brief time out, my friends.
	Is your world rocked about now, folks?
	Okay, here's some audio.
	And welcome back.
	Rush Limbaugh, half my brain tied behind my back just to make it uh just to make it uh fair.
	Tom Delay has joined the fray.
	Tom Delay now saying Newt Gingrich is another Bill Clinton.
	Delay says, yeah, we'd have leadership meetings almost every day, and every day Newt had a new agenda.
	Nothing was ever organized.
	You know, the criticism is a lot of people say Romney doesn't believe in anything, and Newt believes in everything.
	Just depends on the day.
	Now, if Romney's behind this attack, some of them we may have to rethink.
	Our opinion of his cut him off with the knees talents.
	Question is whoever's doing this, do you think they have the guts to do this in Obama against Obama?
	That's that's the real question.
	You do.
	Have you seen any evidence of this?
	Have you seen any evidence the Republican Party's wanting to go after Obama like they're going after each other?
	I haven't.
	I hope to heck that whatever, I hope that Elliot Abrams and Bob Tierrell and the rest of them will have just as much fire against Obama as they do Newt.
	I hope that we see this same kind of focused opposition to Obama once that day comes.
	I really do.
	Snerdley says, oh yeah, no doubt.
	Really?
	Where's the evidence?
	Where's the evidence that anybody in our party's got the guts to go after Obama the way they're going after Newt here, the way they've gone after Perry, the way they've gone some of them going after Romney?
	Where's the evidence?
	We don't have the evidence.
	We have to wait and see.
	And I'll bet you a bunch of people in this audience, if you ask them to make a bet, they would bet the Republican Party doesn't have the guts to go after Democrats the way they're going after themselves.
	I'll just bet you.
	We'll find out.
	We'll ask them when I get to the phones tomorrow.
	Just kidding.
	We'll get to the phones today.
	Here's Romney.
	This is an ad.
	And you'll hear Gingrich in this ad.
	This is a pro-Romney super pack restore our future ad.
	I worked with President Ronald Reagan with Ronald Reagan's.
	Ronald Reagan played President Reagan.
	Gingrich exaggerates, dropping Reagan's name 50 times.
	But in his diaries, Reagan mentioned Gingrich only once.
	Reagan criticized Gingrich, saying Newt's ideas, quote, would cripple our defense program.
	April 11th, 1988, Gingrich on a show.
	Host says, can the vice president run as Bush on the issues that provided such success for Reagan?
	I don't think so at all.
	I think that the uh the years of 1980, 1984 uh are the past, and the American people are a people peculiarly addicted to the future.
	If George Bush runs as a continuation of Reaganism, I think he'll lose because I think on election day, the American people, given a choice between more of eight years or something new, we'll vote for something new.
	So that's one of the things that's circulating.
	And uh this is January 13th, 2008, four years ago, on this week, with George Snuffolofagus.
	We are at the end of the Reagan era.
	We're at a point in time where we're about to start redefining, as a number of people are starting to talk about that.
	We're starting to redefine the nature of the Republican Party in response to what the country needs.
	Newt was one of the early signatories to the premise the era of Reagan is over.
	That's 2008.
	We're at the end of the Reagan era here.
	In uh 1988.
	Ah, no, no.
	Years of 80, 84, that's the past.
	American people peculiarly addicted to the future.
	If George Bush runs as a continuation of Reaganism, he'll lose.
	Newt was wrong.
	Stuff's out there.
	I just last night was the first time.
	And I was shocked because I know everything and I remember everything.
	And I had never heard that stuff before.
	And there's this Media Matters.
	Media Matters for America has a story today saying that I am anti Reagan.
	Based on my comments yesterday, that there's nothing about teamwork in the Constitution.
	What is Obama talking about teamwork?
	And they have a Reagan quote on teamwork here.
	And they say, see, Limbaugh was even anti Reagan.
	So they're lumping me in with Newt today.

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