Sarah Palin: ?this ridiculous opposition dump on Newt was nothing ...

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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Source: http://legalinsurrection.com/2012/01/sarah-palin-this-ridiculous-opposition-dump-on-newt-was-nothing-short-of-stanlin-esque-re-writing-of-history/

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