Sarah Palin Denounces GOP ‘Viciousness’: ‘Enough Is Enough With The Lies About Newt Gingrich’

Sarah Palin was fairly busy over the weekend, writing an extensive post calling out Republican “Stalinesque” “cannibalism,” reappropriating the term “Rage Against the Machine” for Newt Gingrich, and all but endorsing the former House Speaker. On tonight’s Hannity, Palin continued to abstain from an official endorsement, but demanded of Republicans a vigorous nomination process that would guarantee a win for a “big dog” that could take down President Obama.

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Sean Hannity noted that Palin had said that, as a South Carolina voter, she would vote for Gingrich, and wondered if anything had changed. Palin responded that she wanted to “keep the process going” to find “who is best able to defend our republic,” and that the process must find “who has been sharpened and shaped through the school of hard knocks the most.” We need a big dog,” she continued, one capable of defeating the President.

Palin acknowledged that things had gotten “vicious” in the Republican party, and that she did not believe that gratuitous attacks were warranted, but “what I will call people on is when they choose to lie about a candidate.” ‘I’m not whining about the viciousness,” she notes, but the “rewritten history” about Gingrich got to her. “Enough is enough with the lies about Newt Gingrich.”

The segment via Fox News below:

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