A newly surfaced video shows Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich is a true Reagan conservative. The video, called “The Ronald Reagan Legacy,” recently made its exclusive debut on Newsmax and is already making an impact in political circles.
Is Newt Gingrich a True Reagan Conservative? Watch ‘The Ronald Reagan Legacy’ and Decide for Yourself!
The video couldn’t have come at a more perfect time for Gingrich, whose critics have been questioning the relationship he actually shared with Reagan. Mitt Romney is now taking a lot of heat for leading what many are calling a “smear campaign” against the former House speaker.
In fact, a Romney-allied super PAC, Restore Our Future, is airing a television ad saying that to hear Gingrich in debates, “you’d think Newt Gingrich was Ronald Reagan’s vice president . . . Gingrich exaggerates, dropping Reagan’s name 50 times.” In the one mention in Reagan’s diaries, the ad points out, Reagan rejects Gingrich’s idea to freeze the budget.
Michael Reagan, a respected conservative commentator and son of Ronald Reagan, rushed to Gingrich’s defense and hailed him as a true Reagan conservative.
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“I am deeply disturbed that supporters of Mitt Romney are claiming that Newt Gingrich is not a true Reaganite and are even claiming that Newt was a strong critic of my father,” Reagan said.
“Recently I endorsed Newt Gingrich for president because I believe that Newt is the only Republican candidate who has both consistently backed the conservative policies that my father championed and the only Republican that will continue to implement his vision.”
Further shattering Romney’s efforts to cast Gingrich as anti-Reagan is a recently discovered clip of Nancy Reagan at a 1995 dinner heaping praise upon Gingrich. She said, “The dramatic movement of 1995 is an outgrowth of a much earlier crusade that goes back half a century. Barry Goldwater handed the torch to Ronnie, and in turn Ronnie turned that torch over to Newt and the Republican members of Congress to keep that dream alive.”
“There is something truly obscene about the full-blown assault on Newt Gingrich’s strong Reagan conservative history from and on behalf of Mitt Romney, who unabashedly ran away from the Reagan legacy,” says William A. Jacobson, associate clinical professor at the Cornell Law School. He says, “Nancy Reagan had it right. Newt was part of the Reagan revolution and he was the heir to that legacy, not alone, but as someone to whom the torch had been passed.
“That torch never was passed to Mitt Romney, and if it had been, he would have rejected it.”
“Ronald Reagan Legacy” executive producer Ted Goldenberg says, “As viewers will soon see, when Gingrich confidently proclaimed at a recent debate, ‘I am a Reaganite. I’m proud to be a Reaganite,’ he wasn’t kidding.”
Goldenberg concludes, “The funny thing is when Newt Gingrich’s harshest critics call him a true Reagan conservative, he doesn’t find that insulting, he considers it a badge of honor.”
Is Newt Gingrich a True Reagan Conservative? Watch ‘The Ronald Reagan Legacy’ and Decide for Yourself!
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