History repeats itself.
Perhaps not always in content; but in approach.
In 2011 Newt Gingrich threw his hat in the ring to be the Republican candidate in the 2012 elections. Then, like now, the process began at least a year before the RNC national convention.
Paul Ryan, who would eventually become the GOP Vice-Presidential nominee, had explained his version of Healthcare, one that had the majority of the party’s support, but Newt thought it was “radical”.
Ryan’s plan was to have turned the Medicare system into a voucher system so that seniors could purchase private insurance with government money.
Gingrich, however publicly objected to his rival’s plan because,
“What you want to have is a system where people voluntarily migrate to better outcomes, better solutions, better options, not one where you suddenly impose it. I am against Obamacare imposing radical change, and I would be against a conservative imposing radical change.”
After Ryan defended his plan and it became clear Newt’s statement went against his own party and Ryan’s supporters, Gingrich announced,
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Basically his defense for his anti-GOP statement was that to quote him was to misquote him. The offense was not his saying what he said; the offense, according to him, was to tell people what he had said.
To quote him verbatim was to misquote him.
Trump has decided to follow that same strategy.
After Donald listed some falsehoods about what he claims Hillary wants to do as president, he went after her for possibly being able to appoint a number of Supreme Court Justices and told the crowd,
“Hillary wants to abolish, essentially abolish, the Second Amendment. By the way, if she gets to pick, if she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do, folks…Although for the Second Amendment people, maybe there is…”
Now his campaign is claiming that in spite of having said that, the American people, all of us, including his own supporters, are really, really stupid. They claim that he didn’t actually say what he clearly said, what people had heard.
Jason Miller, Trump’s senior communications advisor, claims Trump meant that the Second Amendment people can do something about Clinton by voting for Trump.
Since he means what he said, why didn’t he just say that?