Republican elites are using the tactics of the left to “rewrite history” in an attempt to wreck Newt Gingrich’s presidential campaign, Sarah Palin wrote in a Facebook post Friday evening.
“We should all be concerned by the tactics employed by the establishment this week,” she wrote. “We will not save our country by becoming like the left. And I question whether the GOP establishment would ever employ the same harsh tactics they used on Newt against Obama.”
Palin said the attempts to paint the former House speaker as anti-Ronald Reagan this week are unfair and untrue. She further compared Gingrich’s 2012 experience to her own in 2008 when she was a vice presidential candidate on John McCain’s ticket.
“I have given numerous interviews wherein I espoused the benefits of thorough vetting during aggressive contested primary elections, but this week’s tactics aren’t what I meant,” she wrote.
“Many of these same characters sat on their thumbs in ‘08 and let Obama escape unvetted,” she continued. “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.”
An excerpt from her post:
Those who claim allegiance to Ronald Reagan’s 11th Commandment should stop and think about where we are today. Ronald Reagan and Barry Goldwater, the fathers of the modern conservative movement, would be ashamed of us in this primary. Let me make clear that I have no problem with the routine rough and tumble of a heated campaign. As I said at the first Tea Party convention two years ago, I am in favor of contested primaries and healthy, pointed debate. They help focus candidates and the electorate. I have fought in tough and heated contested primaries myself. But what we have seen in Florida this week is beyond the pale. It was unprecedented in GOP primaries. I’ve seen it before — heck, I lived it before — but not in a GOP primary race.